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JOB TITLE: Lead Design Engineer DEPARTMENT: Engineering LOCATION: Littlehampton, UK ABOUT ADVANCED ENERGY Advanced Energy (Nasdaq: AEIS) is a global leader in the design and manufacturing of highly engineered, precision power conversion, measurement and control solutions for mission-critical applications and processes. AE’s power solutions enable customer innovation in complex applications for a wide range of industries including semiconductor equipment, industrial, manufacturing, telecommunications, data centre computing and healthcare. With engineering know-how and responsive service and support around the globe, the company builds collaborative partnerships to meet technology advances, propel growth for its customers and innovate the future of power. Advanced Energy has devoted four decades to perfecting power for its global customers and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado POSITION SUMMARY: This is a key position which will require you to lead the firmware architecture and design for the next generation of high voltage power supply platforms. The individual in this role needs to have strong digital design experience in C++, some VHDL experience required. Performs engineering work in applied research, design, development, testing, manufacturing, and documentation of products or systems. Works with the team to understand equipment/system requirements and to ensure that the product(s) work in the application(s). Uses research techniques to analyze and validate design or theory concepts. ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES: Participates in all phases of the development life cycle, including requirements analysis, design, implementation, integration, and test of all products. Applies sound engineering principles in the development of digital architecture/design for the target application. Ownership of advanced digital architecture and design. Works with other Engineers and Program Management to decompose system level requirements. Conducts code and design reviews of team members work products. Works closely with cross functional members of the engineering organization to develop and evaluate interfaces between hardware and software, and operational performance requirements and design of the overall system. Provide engineering support to safety, QA, production and customers SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent 8+ years relevant work experience in the following: Ability to work with the team to decompose a system into the required hardware, sofware and firmware sub-systems, including MCU or FPGA choices. C/C++ on embedded applications, with some VHDL design experience. Debuging using JTAG debuggers, oscilloscopes, logic analysers. Research & Development of electronic systems with quality built in. C++ knowledge with an emphasis on using language features towards reusable libraries, maintainable, and testable designs based on Arm based MCUs or using FPGAs. Development of Unit and Integration Tests. Very good communication skills Team player Familiarity with STM32, FreeRTOS, agile, CI/CD, Git, GoogleTest, Bash scripting, PKI/PGP desired.
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