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As the company continues to develop and enhance its technology, they are looking to appoint a highly experienced Senior Electrical & Avionics Engineer to play a key role in the design, integration and validation of critical electrical and avionics systems.\nThis is a hands-on, end-to-end engineering position with responsibility spanning electrical architecture, hardware design, system integration, fault investigation, testing and validation. You will work closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams to ensure that complex autonomous systems remain reliable and predictable in challenging operational environments.\nThe Role\nAs the Senior Electrical & Avionics Engineer, you will take technical ownership of the electrical and avionics integrity of advanced autonomous platforms.\nYou will define and validate robust electrical architectures, power systems, avionics interfaces and embedded hardware, ensuring systems can safely operate during electrical disturbances, subsystem faults and demanding real-world operations.\nThe role covers the complete engineering lifecycle, from architecture and hardware design through to integration, troubleshooting, validation and controlled release.\nKey Responsibilities\nDefine electrical architectures, power trees, load budgets, grounding strategies and critical-load priorities.\nDesign and develop power distribution, monitoring and protection systems.\nDevelop protection strategies against brownouts, overvoltage, reverse polarity, inrush current, short circuits and power interruptions.\nDesign schematics and multilayer PCBs for power, avionics, sensor and embedded-system applications.\nIntegrate batteries, battery-management systems, flight-control hardware, sensors, actuators, communications equipment, payloads and embedded computers.\nDevelop wiring harnesses, connector specifications, pinouts, shielding requirements and interface documentation.\nIntegrate systems using a range of embedded communication protocols and interfaces, including CAN, UART, Ethernet, SPI, I²C, USB and discrete I/O.\nImprove overall system reliability through EMI/EMC mitigation, fault containment, component derating and power-integrity analysis.\nPerform fault-injection testing and investigate complex electrical and system-level failures.\nConduct hardware bring-up, structured troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.\nDefine and execute laboratory, environmental, vibration, thermal and hardware-in-the-loop testing.\nSupport system-level and operational validation activities, including field testing where required.\nMaintain schematics, PCB documentation, bills of materials, hardware revisions and test procedures.\nDevelop test fixtures, manufacturing test processes and integration standards.\nSupport the transition of new hardware and systems into engineering and production environments.\nCandidate Profile\nWe are looking for a highly motivated and technically capable engineer who enjoys solving complex problems and taking ownership of challenging engineering projects.\nYou should be analytical, hands-on and comfortable investigating difficult electrical or system-level issues. The successful candidate will be able to work effectively across multiple engineering disciplines while maintaining a structured approach to validation, quality and continuous improvement.\nThis role may occasionally involve travel and work outside standard office hours to support testing or operational activities.\nEssential Requirements\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Mechatronics, Avionics or a related technical discipline.\n5+ years of experience in electrical, embedded electronics or hardware engineering.\nExperience working with complex systems within industries such as aerospace, robotics, autonomous systems, defence or other mission-critical environments.\nProven experience taking electrical hardware from concept or system architecture through design, bring-up, validation and release.\nStrong knowledge of electrical architecture and DC power systems.\nExperience with grounding, electrical protection, monitoring and failure-containment 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