Electronics Engineer - Embedded Controls
Full Time
Derby/Hybrid (3 days/week in the office)
Why Roll- Royce?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Electronics Engineer to join our team in the UK, working on developing the embedded controls solutions for electrical power conversion applications.
In this highly technical role, you will be responsible for contributing towards the development of our controller functionality and associated circuits. This involves realising complex control algorithms and interfaces on FPGAs and DSP targets, as well as the electronic circuit designs.
Why Rolls-Royce?
Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.
We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.
We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.
This role is part of our Engineering, Technology and Safety (ET&S) capability. ET&S is a key element in our organisation bringing together Rolls-Royce’s core expertise and working on Engineering, Technology and Safety programmes, engineering standards, processes, methods and tools.
We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.
This complex role will allow you to innovate and define cutting-edge solutions contributing to the design and manufacturing of our world-class aerospace engines. This is a good opportunity for someone with a genuine interest in the control of electrical power converters (AC/DC, DC/DC) who is also happy with hands-on lab work.
What we offer:
We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.
Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.
What you will be doing
In this challenging and exciting role, you will:
- Contribute towards the AC/DC and DC/DC converter conceptual design.
- Manage requirements & capture design documentation.
- Implement and verify the control solution for FPGAs and/or DSPs targets.
- Integrate control hardware/software with the converter power stages and support test campaigns.
- Design, analyse and test the electronic analogue and digital circuits.
- Perform schematics design, component selection, and circuit board layout.
Who we’re looking for
At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles. And for this role, we are looking for someone who is/has:
- Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent, ideally with Chartered Engineer status.
- Experience in embedded controls design, ideally for safety-critical applications.
- Experience in electrical power control development is highly desirable.
- Experience with VHDL design and verification.
- Experience in embedded C and C++ is desirable.
- Familiarity with circuit design and analysis tools, ideally with Altium Designer and PSpice.
- Good familiarity with aerospace standards such as DO-254, DO-178C or their equivalent from other industries is highly desirable.
- Good communication skills - verbal, written, and presentation for both expert and non-expert audiences.
Join us & Make an impact
We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.
We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.
You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce
