Collins Aerospace

Date Posted: 2025-11-26 Country: United Kingdom Location: Atlantic Inertial Systems Limited, Clittaford Road, Southway, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 6DE Position Role Type: Unspecified At Collins Aerospace, precision and reliability guide everything we do. Our Bristol and Plymouth sites are centres of excellence for navigation and control systems, powering world-class innovations like MEMS-based IMUs and TERPROM terrain navigation systems. This is your opportunity to join a pioneering engineering team - in a hybrid role based in either Plymouth or Bristol - and take a leading role in the next generation of aerospace technology. What You Will Do: We're looking for a Senior Electronics/FPGA Engineer ready to take a leading role in shaping the next generation of aerospace systems. You'll work on high performance navigation and sensor technologies where precision, reliability, and innovation are critical. Lead full lifecycle firmware development on new and existing products and test equipment Design and support mixed-signal electronics built to perform flawlessly in challenging environments. Collaborate with multidisciplinary experts in systems, software, and mechanical design to bring complex projects to life. Participate in peer reviews for both firmware and electronic designs. Share your expertise, mentor colleagues, and champion continuous improvement across the electronics team. What You'll Learn Develop deep expertise in high performance IMU and MEMS sensor design for real world aerospace applications. Gain hands-on experience with formal aerospace development processes. Work directly with cutting-edge FPGA and mixed-signal technologies in live aerospace systems. Thrive in a high-performing, collaborative engineering environment where precision meets innovation. What You Must Have: A minimum 2:1 Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Electronics Engineering or a related field. Strong VHDL experience - including architecture, coding, simulation, and test benching (Microchip, Xilinx, SoC). A solid grasp of analogue and digital electronics fundamentals. Proven experience across the full electronics development lifecycle - from requirements capture to multilayer PCB design. Hands-on testing skills in both firmware and hardware. Mixed-signal design experience, integrating sensitive analogue circuitry with high-speed digital signals. Skills & Experience We Value Experience with E-CAD tools for schematic capture, PCB layout, and simulation (e.g. Xpedition, HyperLynx, AMS). Knowledge of formal design standards such as DO-254. Familiarity with Verilog/SystemVerilog, OSVVM, or UVVM. Understanding of IPC standards. Experience in MEMS sensors, airborne electronics, or ASIC development. Cross-disciplinary awareness (systems, software, mechanical). What We Can Offer You: Competitive salary and benefits package. Flexible and hybrid working options. Excellent 2:1 matched pension contribution (up to 10%). Private health insurance and life assurance. 25 days annual leave plus the ability to buy or sell up to 5 more. Early finish on Fridays. Career development, mentorship, and world-class training opportunities. And much more! Are you up for the challenge? If you're ready to make an impact in a company where innovation, precision, and purpose come together, join our mission today. Note: The successful candidate must hold an active or be willing and eligible to obtain SC level security clearance. Please note that access to certain projects may be restricted based on nationality. RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Privacy Policy and Terms: Click on this link to read the Policy and Terms

Date Posted: 2025-11-26 Country: United Kingdom Location: Atlantic Inertial Systems Limited, Clittaford Road, Southway, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 6DE Position Role Type: Unspecified At Collins Aerospace, precision and reliability guide everything we do. Our Plymouth site is a recognised centre of excellence for navigation and control systems, developing world-class innovations such as MEMS-based IMUs and TERPROM terrain navigation systems. We are seeking a Senior Electronics Engineer, with knowledge of analogue and digital systems, fault diagnostics, and production operations support, ideally gained in an aerospace or defence environment. This role sits within a multi-disciplinary engineering team dedicated to safeguarding the technical integrity and performance of our production output. You'll play a key part in ensuring every product leaving the site meets the highest standards of reliability and compliance. What You Will Do: You will conduct root cause investigations into production issues and customer returns, identify and implement corrective actions, and work closely with design teams to ensure lessons learned are built into future generations of our products. You'll contribute to change control and technical reviews, providing trusted technical input on product design, performance, and test system integration. You will play a key role in maintaining product quality, reliability, and continuous improvement across our production lines. You'll provide specialist engineering expertise, drive fault diagnosis and root cause analysis, and ensure lessons learned are embedded into future designs. This role combines hands on technical problem solving with cross functional collaboration, supporting production, design, and supply chain teams to deliver world-class aerospace systems. You'll play a key role in maintaining the technical integrity of production output including: Validating technical compliance of all production output. Provide technical support to Production Engineering, to investigate and resolve product failures at all stages of assembly and test. Provide technical support to Industrial Engineering with regards to test equipment upgrades and new product and process introduction. Provide technical support to Supplier Management teams to assess and approve Supply Chain deviations & concessions. Carrying out failure investigations and identifying corrective actions, which may include leading multi-disciplinary investigation teams using 8D or similar methodologies. Manage investigation and test of customer returns, including documentation and programme / customer liaison. Technical review and approval of production and design concessions, deviations, calibration failures, production failures and other non-conformances. Maintenance of relationships with Engineering design teams to ensure production and customer knowledge is fed back and implemented into the design process. What You Must Have: Demonstrated experience with analogue and digital electronic systems, ideally within aerospace or defence environments. Appreciation of mechanical design and production principles for military or high-reliability electronics systems. Understanding of industry standard problem-solving approaches. Experience operating as a technical lead or approver, and working towards Technical / Design Authority recognition Experienced & respected within their current business and able to influence at all levels. Skills & Experience We Value: Experience of working with systems incorporating analogue sensing elements. Knowledge of principles of design, operation, production and test of inertial measurement systems. What We Offer: Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Excellent 2:1 matched pension contribution (up to 10%). Private health insurance and life assurance. 25 days annual leave plus the ability to buy or sell up to 5 more. Early finish on Fridays. Career development, mentoring, and world-class training opportunities. Join Us! If you're passionate about maintaining the highest standards of engineering quality and supporting the delivery of cutting-edge aerospace systems, we'd love to hear from you. Note: The successful candidate must hold an active or be willing and eligible to obtain SC level security clearance. Please note that access to certain projects may be restricted based on nationality. RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Privacy Policy and Terms: Click on this link to read the Policy and Terms