As Mechanical Design Engineer, you will have a proven track record in a product design industry or similar.

Candidate will be required to interface with clients, produce fully detailed 3D design / manufacture drawings and monitor the design process against a deadline.

GX Group is one of the UK’s leading technology and innovation companies offering product and industrial design consultancy services, design engineering and product development.  We use an innovative multidisciplinary and holistic approach to help solve some of the most complex and challenging design engineering problems.

The role will offer the opportunity to work alongside a team of highly experienced Engineers. You will be working on a range of state-of-the-art projects involving development of a wide range of products.

We are seeking an additional Software Development Engineer to join the team, some Hardware development experience would be an advantage.

Key Skills should include Embedded C++, C.

Please visit this page to see the range of work undertaken.

Required skills

Good understanding of electronics, including:

• Microcontrollers, analogue circuitry (sensors), power supplies, digital communications protocols (e.g. USB, CAN), actuators and motor drive circuitry
• Programming embedded systems in C/C++, including bare-metal designs and/or stand-alone systems, real-time operating systems (e.g. FreeRTOS).
• Microcontroller experience using STM32, MSP430 and Pic18/Pic32 highly desirable
• Hardware prototyping, fault-finding and testing of prototype systems
• Need to have good communication skills, be proficient with MS Word, Excel, project management software
• Be comfortable with presenting ideas & designs to clients, also developing specifications to allow client’s requirements to be translated into working designs suitable for production
• Schematic capture and PCB design (e.g. Orcad/Cadstar, Kicad, or others)
• Experience of Medical Devices design requirements an advantage
• Experience with 3D mechanical design (e.g. ProEngineer/SolidWorks) an advantage

We are looking for a candidate who can work with our design team on multiple projects simultaneously, with the following skills:

Knowledge & experience designing electronics circuits, including the following;

Digital circuits, input devices, output drivers (displays, actuators, relays, motor drivers, etc)

Analogue circuits ( sensors, amplifiers & signal conditioning/filtering)

Microcontrollers (ideally both bare-metal custom designs and also Arduino-based) including developing embedded firmware (C/C++, Python, or other high-level languages)