Welcome to AALTO, a global leader in the stratosphere. We design, manufacture and offer connectivity and Earth observation services using the record-breaking Zephyr High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS).

HAPS is one of the world’s leading emerging technologies, which operate above air traffic and weather to offer new capabilities within our communications ecosystem. As the world’s most advanced HAPS, AALTO’s Zephyr is blazing a trail at the cutting-edge of technology, design and services.

Powered entirely by the sun as an emissionless aircraft in-flight – Zephyr flies at the speed of a bicycle above 60,000+ feet for days, weeks and even months at a time.

As a payload agnostic platform, Zephyr can transform into a multi-functional tower in the sky to provide low latency 5G direct-to-device mobile connectivity services. Zephyr can also be used to fulfil a range of monitoring, tracking, sensing and detection applications.

Join as we create a new frontier for services from the stratosphere. You’ll be part of a highly-skilled, innovative and passionate group of people – Team AALTO. Together, we can make sure ‘The Future is Stratospheric’.

Job Purpose:

As part of our ongoing growth, we are now recruiting for an Avionics Hardware Engineer to be part of our established Avionics Engineering team.

We are transitioning from multiple prototyping to full serial production and then onwards to certifiable product.

The role is to be part of the Avionics Hardware Engineering team to support the development of Avionics Hardware for the Zephyr system, both air and ground as well as support the system in-service.

This position reports directly to the Systems Design Manager

Responsibilities:

• Executing full lifecycle analogue and digital circuit design for harsh thermal and radiation environments

• Manage/support Avionics Outsource work packages

• Coordinating unit testing of Avionics systems

• Managing non-conformances throughout the design lifecycle

• Managing obsolescence in existing designs

• Capturing lessons learnt and identifying improvements to designs and processes

• Tracking design changes through a formal CCB process

• Manage Avionics design work packages to a strict budget (on time, on cost, on quality)

Experience and Qualifications:

• Experience of analogue and digital electronic circuit design principles
• Have the capability to take a unit design from requirements through detailed design and system trade-offs to prototyping and batch production, testing and system integration
• Use of electronic CAD packages (schematic capture, PCB layout, simulation etc.)
• Experience of electronic component selection in accordance with requirements
• Experience working in aerospace or a similar regulated industry such as oil & gas, medical devices, railways, automotive.
• Be able to understand and adapt existing electronics and electrical designs.

Desirable

• Knowledge and experience of power electronics & motor controllers

• Experience working in the aviation and/or UAS industry

• Working knowledge of aerospace hardware certification standards DO-160 and DO-254

• Working knowledge of aerospace certification standards DO-178, ARP4754, ARP4761

• Experience of working with a PLM and or ERP toolset

In addition to salary, we offer:

• Rewarding Excellence: Benefit from our short-term incentive plan that rewards your hard work and dedication.

• Enjoy Your Time Off: Benefit from 25 days of holiday to relax and recharge.

• Stay Healthy: We’ve got your health covered with private medical insurance, along with dental and optical cash back.

• Secure Your Future: Take advantage of our personal pension plan to ensure a comfortable retirement.

• Peace of Mind: Our income protection and life assurance schemes are there to support you when you need it most.

• We Care About You: Our employee assistance programme is always available to provide the support you need.

• Perks Galore: Enjoy a range of employee discounts via Perkbox, because you deserve a treat!

• Go Green: Join our cycle to work scheme or take advantage of our car salary sacrifice scheme. It’s all about making your commute easier and more sustainable

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