Enigma People Solutions is recruiting a number of Systems Design Engineers for a global leader in the manufacture of laser products based in Glasgow, Scotland (relocation assistance available).
Join a friendly professional company with an outstanding work environment and great staff facilities including an excellent on-site cafeteria within a modern building. Enjoy a great work-life balance with flexible core hours which provide the opportunity to start your weekend early. Receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes contributory pension scheme, subsidised private health care and free life assurance.
Our client develops laser systems that help people and are used in a wide variety of markets including renewable energy, microelectronics, fundamental research, life sciences and medicine. Consistent strong growth over the past ten years, even through times of global economic slowdown has lead to a healthy product development pipeline which is enabling existing and future growth generating exciting opportunities for personal and career growth in the years to come.
Reporting into R&D, this role is for a Systems Engineer to co-ordinate system design primarily from the perspective of the underlying and customer-facing control system.
This opening comes at a time of exciting growth for the Company with an opportunity to join a multidiscipline engineering team and shape the next generation of cutting-edge laser products.
You will work as part of the development team from the feasibility phase through the full manufacturing release cycle. Successful candidates will develop a level of understanding that spans across the system design to become a vital expert in the laser system.
Responsibilities will include:
Working within multi-disciplinary engineering team (NPI, software, electronics, optical).
Investigating electronics and software issues on existing product lines. Debugging and driving solutions to be implemented within the wider team.
Ownership of control system design requirements in new designs.
Taking information from other disciplines (mainly optical) and defining system functional block diagrams, design constraints and control algorithms.
Working with design personnel to adapt requirements and carry out final testing.
Ownership of control system design reliability analysis. This will include documented failure mode analyses.
Analysis of system adherence to safety standards.
Critically reviewing design choices with the needs of all stakeholders considered from the engineering team, through production to the customer and field support.
Working with prototype systems and critically looking for any improvements through both empirical and paper-based detailed analyses.
Leading or active involvement in root cause analysis of any failures that occur in early manufacturing cycle.
Acting as the technology conduit between the software & electronics group and the optical teams.
Owning a synoptic view of the system design whilst being part of the discrete teams performing focused developments.
Troubleshooting and root-cause failure-analysis for prototype units through the development process.
Contribute to or lead troubleshooting for manufacturing or field issues on production released systems. Coordinating corrective actions for these may then be required.
Essential Skills
Physics, Electronics Engineering, or similar BSc degree.
Basic electronics knowledge of analogue circuits. An ability to probe, measure and debug against designed functionality.
Experience of using problem solving skills to investigate cross-discipline issues with some root-cause analysis methodology.
Demonstratable experience of problem solving of electronics / software / optical issues.
A tenacious approach to problem solving with a desire to get to the demonstratable root of the problem.
Good communication skills.
Able to describe complex technologies across disciplines.
Ability to work on multiple tasks and manage priorities.
Detail-oriented, able to take general instructions and seek out all the elements needed to complete the assigned task.
Ability to drive a project within the organisation.
Comfortable to work on your own to investigate issues outside of comfort zone.
Working with teams with competing needs.
Preferred Additional Skills
General understanding of control systems involving electronics and software blocks.
A detailed understanding of some aspects of laser designs; these could include ultrashort laser pulses, mode-locking techniques, UV generation, fiber laser systems, solid state laser oscillators and amplifiers.
Coding using a text-based coding language (e.g., Python, C#, MATLAB) for data analysis or instrumentation control.