Senior Hardware Design Engineer

CompanyZhuzhou CRRC Times Electric UK Innovation Center

LocationBirmingham, England, United Kingdom

Posted At1/21/2026

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Electronics engineers

Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled

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£52,000 (£26.67 per hour)

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Description

Zhuzhou CRRC Times Electric UK Innovation Center (TEIC) is a subsidiary of the CRRC Corporation Limited, the world’s leading propulsion and control systems provider in the rolling stock industry. Our mission is to design, develop and produce state of the art power electronics systems and components for automotive electric vehicles, rail, and renewable energy sectors.

Overview of the role:

We are looking for a Senior Hardware Design Engineer to join our team at TEIC. This role will be responsible for circuit design, simulation analysis, test verification of power semiconductor devices.

What you will be doing in this role:

Design and development of control board and gate drive board for power semiconductor devices that rated 1200V or higher
Ensure hardware solutions, detailed technical design and PCB design meet technical specifications
Hardware circuit analysis, including FMEDAs, FTAs, and diagnostic coverage analysis, DFMEA, DRBFM reliability analysis, etc., define technical specifications and complete work reports
Hardware design simulation calculations, including tolerance, worst case, derating, EMC, thermal simulation, etc., define technical specifications and prepare work reports

Circuit testing, validation and calibration work, and complete test specifications and reports

Electronic material management, PCB package library management

Summary and validation of design experience/criteria

Collaborative reliability engineers to complete reliability testing and coordinate with system engineers for integration testing

Work with project managers and manufacturing departments or contractors to ensure timely and cost-effective prototypes are produced at the expected cost

Responsible for electronic circuit test fixture preparation

We would like you to have:

First class degree or upper 2nd in Engineering, Electronics, Physics or other relevant field (or equivalent experience)
5 years working experience on power electronics product design
Familiar with power electronic semiconductor device applications
Experience with high power switching power supply development project
Strong PCB designing skills
Good at Altium Designer, Cadence or similar software
Have two-level or three-level driver application experience. The bus voltage of the inverter is 600V or higher. The rated power of the inverter is 200KW or higher.

Able to produce schematics of the gate driver board independently, including the design of the power circuit, gate driving circuit, protection circuit and control circuit.

Familiar with DSP, FPGA circuit design

Hands on experiences with uC resource allocation and Base Software configuration

Rich experiences in circuit board debugging and double-pulse testing

Previous experience in HALT, quantitative ALT would be desirable

Benefits

TEIC is a great place to work with opportunities for professional and personal development. Our benefits include:

25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays
Holiday allowance increase with length of service
Bupa healthcare
Healthcare vouchers
Free on-site car parking
Free EV charging
Free lunch Monday to Friday
Contributory Pension
Life assurance
Company sick pay
Professional Membership fees paid e.g. CIPD, IEEE

To find out more about TEIC visit www.teic.crrczic.cc.