Senior Electronics Engineer

Do you want to work with “The British Tesla of Kitchen and Food Robotics” as credited by UKTN, a world leader in the food robotics industry and Sifted’s top ‘rising star’ Early-Stage Start-up to watch? Then look no further; Karakuri are actively recruiting for a Senior Electronics Engineer to join their team.

We are looking for an Electronics superstar with proven skills and experience in designing, implementing, testing and maintaining new and existing hardware designs to take on a crucial role in developing products for the future of fast food.

Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities will include, but will not limited to:

• Create, agree and take ownership of the product development plan
• Provide support to production and systems integration teams, off-site suppliers and customers
• Take a lead in managing and engaging stakeholders
• Supervise the completion of detailed designs and supervise the work of others in this function
• Provide cover for the team leader as and when requested
• Perform a full lifecycle product development (design, develop, test, prototypes, manufacture and implement), handling and defining missing or vague requirements, exploring design limits, gaining opinions and proposing solutions
• Design, develop and review of digital and analogue circuits, including embedded microcontrollers, motor control, analogue conditioning and communications.
• Integrate complete prototypes with larger systems, specifying enclosures, wiring and connectors.
• Investigate product failures to understand the cause and identify any necessary actions.
• Mentoring and coaching colleagues, supporting them with their development

Requirements

Key Skills and Experience

• Significant hands-on industry experience working on the development of production-ready systems and design of multi-layer PCB’s (and PCB stack-up design).
• Experience in the design of embedded processors, sensors and interfacing electronics.
• Experience in optimising circuit design for ease of manufacture and production test, component design to maximise efficiency, package density and reliability,
• Experience in developing and testing electronics hardware with hardware jigs and bring-up, debug, validation will be key as will your expertise using lab test equipment.
• The ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, in a dynamic environment.
• Competent at writing documentation such as Requirement Specifications, Hardware Design, Test Specification and Test Reports as well as using CAD and simulation tools.

Essential Knowledge and Understanding

• Development of mixed signal and power electronics designs
• Production testing and product reliability on an end-to-end scale and design to best practices in terms of EMC, thermal management and product reliability.

• Designing products and taking them into mass production
• Effective stakeholder engagement and management
• Supervising, mentoring and coaching others and developing a team
• Designing products for environmental and compliance testing and knowledge of relevant standards
• Working with third party compliance testing facilities

Beneficial Experience

• Working with Altium designer

• Working in a start-up environment

Qualifications and Training

• A degree in an engineering subject, such as electronics (or demonstrable work experience providing equivalent depth and breadth of knowledge and competency).

Personal Qualities

• A 'can-do' and adaptable approach
• A strong personal motivation and drive
• Committed to developing and contributing to high performing teamwork.
• A mindset of continuous improvement through exploring and learning.
• Enthusiasm, passion and energy
• Open, honest and authentic with a high degree of integrity
• Curious, creative and innovative
• Highly organised, conscientious with good attention to detail
• Team-player / ready to share in the demands of a start-up business
• Able to work on own initiative and with others
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Resilient and persistent in goals, but adaptable to context and people.
• Self-aware and emotionally intelligent

Benefits

What’s on offer?

As well as being a fun place to work, we also offer a competitive salary per annum (depending on extent on alignment with the role specification) and the following perks:

• Hybrid working (as the work enables)
• Stock Options - We have one of the largest stock option pools in UK Tech Industry, and every member of the Karakuri team is included
• 25 days holiday per year + bank holidays
• Vitality Health Insurance - giving you discounted gym membership plus many more rewards
• Good contributory pension
• Cycle to work scheme

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