About the Role
At Sava, we are looking for a passionate Staff Embedded Hardware Engineer, to develop, test & maintain embedded hardware components. Use cases include our next generation wearable medical devices, bespoke testing tools & manufacturing aids. The right candidate would champion engineering best practices & own process improvements.
You have the exciting opportunity to work with a strongly multi-disciplinary team, reaching Embedded Software Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Sensor Development, through to App and Back-End Development.
Requirements
Responsibilities
Product PCBA design
Experimental feature “Proof of Concept” feasibility investigations
Hardware test set up development – manual & automated
Own improvements to high performance processes for developing efficient, reliable & maintainable embedded systems
Capture requirements & pull these through the engineering process from implementation, component test & system level test
Past Experience
5 years experience in a hardware related field
Great to have:
Experience with wearable devices
Medical and/or regulated industry experience
Requirements
Hardware
Low power hardware optimisation
Small PCBA size optimisation
Fluent in mechanical integration trade-offs
Schematic design
Multi-layer PCB design
Hardware bring-up
High precision low noise analogue
Measurement uncertainty stack-ups
Digital circuits, MCUs, digital buses (I2C, SPI etc.)
RF design principles, impedance matching and transmission lines
BLE Antenna design
Knowledge of IEC 60601 & translating requirements to electronic design features
Design for Excellence (Design for X)
Manufacturability
Electromagnetic Compatibility
Testability
Systems Engineering & Cross Team Qualities
Translating & allocating requirements to electronics architectures & block diagrams
Test driven mindset. “The proof is in the pudding (read: test)”
Methodical risk analysis techniques like FMEA.
Appreciation of user hazards & product-level risks.
Fluent in version control approaches & being comfortable with validating for example “the file marked version 1 is indeed the true version 1”
Being on top of interface control (e.g. interface control documentation to manage interfaces with other components & teams).
Elicit requirements from stakeholders
Tools
Altium
Git & GitHub
LTSpice & other modelling tools
Processes
Undertaking Layout Reviews, Inspections, Walkthroughs.
Experience with version control tools (e.g. Git), workflow tracking (e.g. JIRA)
Ability to work fluently with other engineering disciplines (Mechanical Engineering, Embedded Software Engineering, Sensor Development etc.)
Project Management of time & resources, and owning timing plans for work
Preferred
Knowledge of mains facing circuits, design techniques & general user safety
Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python
About the Company
All the health information we need is within us. Just below the skin. SAVA is redefining the way people interact with their health by developing the most advanced biosensing technology science has to offer, capable of accessing bodily information in a painless, real-time and affordable way.