Background
As architects of meaningful change, we guide industries forward by developing world-class products and holistic, scalable solutions that harness our expertise in telemetry, control and analytics plus electrification.
We work with pioneers and visionaries who share our ambition to win. The output is high performance design of products and processes across the automotive, motorsport, transport and Internet of Things industries.
You won’t believe what we get to work on.
Purpose of the Role
• As an Associate PCB Design Engineer, you will work with the full support of an established Hardware Engineering team. You will help deliver complete design solutions – including Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design and simulation, prototyping PCB systems and analysis of PCB layouts.
• You will work on projects in the Motorsport business, supporting the design team’s work in providing rigorous design and validation of PCB designs while working to established PCB engineering processes & standards.
• You will collaborate with our many engineers & technicians across the business, from many different disciplines, providing the opportunity to develop in a rich engineering environment.
• The work of the team includes both PCB design, simulation and development. Working closely with other engineering disciplines (Hardware design, Mechanical design andEmbedded Software) – plus prototyping PCBs and working closely with our Production team.
Principal Accountabilities
• You will contribute to all aspects of the team’s work, including:
• Specification of PCBs to deliver product performance goals.
• Design of prototype PCB systems to verify those performance goals.
• PCB system integration with the product under test.
• Analysis of PCB test performance statistics.
• You will design and develop Motorsport PCB hardware, these hardware-based projects will be used in various Motorsport series. This will involve capturing the PCB design, prototyping and helping with hardware bring up, working alongside your Hardware and Embedded Software colleagues.
Job Description
• You will collaborate with Systems engineers and Product Hardware and Software engineers, from across McLaren Applied, throughout each product’s development and production life cycles.
• You will begin working to best-practice processes, using IPC based standards.
• This role suits a well-organized, motivated engineer who is excited about developing their career in a wide range of PCB engineering disciplines.
Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications and Experience
• Ideally a First class degree or upper 2nd in - Electronic, Electrical, Physics, Computer Science or similar technical field of study
• A good understanding of embedded electronics
• Have experience developing in an eCAD environment, ideally Cadence
• Good understanding of statistics
• Ability to work both as part of a team and individually
• Enjoy collaborating with others, across disciplines, to produce elegant, far-sighted solutions
• High attention to detail and great analytical skills
What we can offer you :
In return for everything you bring to the table, we can ensure an exciting, challenging role in a dynamic business surrounded by some of the best people in their respective fields.
At McLaren Applied we firmly believe it’s the relationships and friendships we create while working that make us special. We’re also aware that the world is changing and we are part of that change. We all want and need different things from our work and home lives, so, if you have commitments outside of work, we’re open to talking through flexible working options that work for you and us.
- Annual leave (25 days + bank holidays, pro-rated for part time colleagues).
- Enhanced Company Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave and pay.
- Flexible working policies, including Hybrid Working.
- Life assurance to the value of 4 times base salary
- Opportunity to join the McLaren Applied Pension Plan
- Company funded individual private healthcare with the opportunity to extend to partner or spouse and/or dependents at a discounted rate.
- Ride-to-work with Evans Cycles – take advantage of the Government’s Cycle-to-Work scheme which offers savings of up to 42% on the cost of a new bike, cycling accessories and components.
- Electric car scheme – opportunity to drive a brand-new car in a more affordable way through this salary sacrifice scheme. Employees are eligible to join the scheme after successful competition of their probationary period.
Our values
OWNERSHIP
OPENNESS
BRAVERY
INGENUITY
HUMILITY
McLaren Applied are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) and promote DEI in all we do. McLaren Applied are also members of the UK Government Disability Confident Scheme.
