Hardware Engineer - All Levels

Are you looking to transition from the Armed Forces into a rewarding civilian career? 

Leonardo is ranked among the world’s top ten players in Aerospace, Defence and Security, is a global solutions provider and is a trusted long-term partner of choice for governments, institutions and private customers, delivering cutting-edge and dual-use technologies.

We are proud to welcome veterans, reservists and service leavers. Our Electronics workforce of more than 4,000 specialists are spread across five main UK sites (Bristol, Southampton, Luton, Basildon, Newcastle and Edinburgh). We are currently hiring for Hardware Engineers of all levels of expertise.

What you’ll do:

Support: Throughout the full hardware lifecycle from requirements analysis; through design, and unit test; to integrating hardware with the target system; and lastly to acceptance test and delivery to customer
Report: Documenting and recording your work products; keeping them under configuration management, and providing plans and progress reports
Designing: High speed digital Printed Circuit Boards that utilise the latest FPGA, Microprocessor and high speed interconnect technologies
Collaboration: Work within a multi-disciplined team of engineers to solve real integration problems on complex systems.

What we need from you:

• You will have either a HNC/HND or Undergraduate Degree (Electronic Engineering, Physics, or Systems based) or you may just have lots of skills and experience gained through hard work.
• Familiarity with circuit design (schematic capture) layout and simulation design tools
• Mixed signal knowledge using ADC/DAC, FPGA, SoC based design for high performance signal processing, communications and control.
• Integrating in-house designs with COTS modules (power supplies, single board computers, RF interfaces)
• Hands on experience of Hardware, Firmware & Software Integration of Micro Processor Based designs onto hardware platforms is essential

Life at Leonardo

We're committed to providing career opportunities and fulfilling jobs to UK veterans, and flexibility for our employees who have chosen to serve as military reservists. Here's some of the benefits we offer:

Flexible Working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options. 
Holidays: 25 days plus bank holidays and to accrue up to 12 additional flexi leave days per year.
Pension: Award winning pension scheme (up to 15% employer contribution)
Reserve Forces: Support to the Reserve Forces and allow employees who are Reservists to take additional time off.
Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme with access to free mental health support, financial wellbeing support and network groups.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive work environment unlocks our people’s full potential and drives innovation and creativity. We work hard to offer a welcoming, accessible and inclusive place to work for all of our people, creating a culture where everyone can thrive, feel safe and have a sense of belonging and connection.

Leonardo is a global security company that realises technology for a safer future.

In the UK, Leonardo is one of the biggest suppliers of defence and security equipment to the UK MOD operating from eight main sites across the UK and employing over 8,500 highly skilled people.