Description
Working at the heart of our R+D team your role is designing the electronics for the next generation of Naim Audio's world class HiFi systems and, our sister company, Focal's speakers. Using your experience of working with high complexity digital systems you will be responsible for designing and implementing the electronics circuits that make Naim Audio and Focal streaming music systems sound so good. The R+D team is cross functional, and you'll be working closely with embedded software engineers, mechanical designers and test engineers.
From concept phase right through to production you will be involved in the electronics design process, simulating circuits, pre-scan of EMC rules, prototyping, creating schematics, designing PCBs then testing and assisting with the transition to manufacture.
Key Responsibilities
Electronic design:
Digital circuit design including components such as Microprocessors, DSP, FPGA, DAC/ADC
High speed digital design
Power supply design, linear and switched mode.
Analogue circuit simulation and design of amplifiers and audio filters
Prototyping and bench testing PCBs and circuits.
EMC and ESD
Electronics design peer reviews
Electronics architecture reviews
Design feasibility evaluation
ECAD Design:
Schematic design and PCB layout
Analogue PCB design
Power PCB design
FPC and PCB Interconnection design
System Integration
Liaising with Suppliers and third parties:
RF Design Consultants
FFC and PCB Manufacturers
Test Equipment suppliers
Custom component design
Sourcing component samples and liaising with companies for custom sample
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
You are expected to have a strong electronics engineering background, preferable with a specialisation in modern digital technologies such as dealing with high-speed signals commonly found with DSP and FPGA designs. Knowledge of RF technologies such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi would be beneficial, as would experience dealing with EMC sensitive applications.
Degree qualified in Electronics engineering or similar discipline
History of working in a commercial environment designing complex electronics products.
Able to demonstrate depth of knowledge in multiple technical areas related to digital systems such as digital audio systems, high speed circuit design, FPGA or RF design.
Analogue electronics design experience
Lab skills such as debugging prototypes in collaboration with firmware engineers and using test equipment such as modern oscilloscopes and logic analysers.
Experienced ECAD user, preferable Altium 360
Knowledge and ability to design to global safety and EMC / ESD standards rules.
Familiarity with modern collaborative development tools and techniques such as Confluence and Jira
Experience in the audio industry would be beneficial where critical listening was part of the design process.
Benefits
24 days holiday, plus bank holidays - increasing with length of service
Free canteen
Free parking available on-site
Enhanced employer pension contribution (4% of gross salary)
Death in Service insurance
Employee discount on Naim products
Wellbeing initiatives, including an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), and discounted memberships at select local gyms
Alongside other, standard benefits (for example, training and development opportunities as appropriate to role)
About Naim Audio
Naim founder Julian Vereker MBE () was a racing car driver, entrepreneur and self-taught engineer with a deep passion for music. Spending his spare time listening to and recording his friends playing live in the 1960s, Julian found that playback on his system at home fell woefully short of the experience he craved.
Not content with second best, he decided to design his own amplifiers and loudspeakers, ignoring accepted wisdom and focusing on aspects of performance that made music burst to life. These first designs laid the foundations for a range of iconic and award-winning hi-fi products that would reach well into the next century.
This maverick approach to design, backed by over 40 years of engineering and craft, fuels our progress today. Choose Naim to go deeper into your music, for a completely immersive and involving listening experience.
Our hiring process
Stage 1: Applied
Stage 2: Review
Stage 3: Preliminary screening
Stage 4: Initial interview with hiring manager
Stage 5: On-site interview
Stage 6: Hired
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