About Brompton:

Brompton is much more than a bicycle; it's a portal to urban freedom, a means to move around a city differently and to see it with fresh eyes. Over the past 50 years, we've become globally recognised as a British design icon, renowned for our craftsmanship, durability and sustainability. Small wheels with big ideals. Portable, foldable, unstoppable.

At the heart of our success are the ingenuity and resilience embodied by our founder. In 1975, against all the odds, Andrew Ritchie designed a folding bike like no other. After years of rejection and ridicule, his invention found its place in the fabric of urban society. 1.2 million bikes later,  with a retail footprint covering nearly 50 markets and with thousands of fan communities dotted around the world, Brompton is no laughing matter.

These days, our commitment to creating world class products remains unwavering but it's accompanied by a broader aim of creating greener, safer, cycle-friendly cities where people can feel more connected, more present, more alive.

If you're ready to unfold your imagination, expand your horizons and redraw your career map, read on to learn more about this unique opportunity!

The Role

The role is focused supporting electronics team and development of new platform, requirements capture and development of low-cost and high reliability electronics onto existing and future platforms, as well as development of internal prototypes and test equipment. It requires a good knowledge of power, analog and embedded electronics as well as interest in embedded designs. This is a vital role in the creation and improvement of all Electric platforms within Brompton Bicycle, requiring a can-do approach candidate. Moreover, candidate will have opportunity to contribute toward electronic system architecture design, maturity, ways of working, promoting good engineering practices and system engineering.

Main duties

• Contributing to the development of low-cost & high reliability electronics into moderate volume markets through the entire engineering lifecycle,
• Designing, analysing, and verifying electronics for consumer facing products, internal prototypes and test equipment,
• Supporting technical development, other team members as well as external stakeholders on ad hoc basis,
• Working with Systems and Software engineers to develop requirements & architectures, resolve complex systematic issues and integrate software onto hardware,
• Assisting manufacturers with test equipment for electronic product lines, end of line testers.

Essential Skills

• Preparing and presenting designs and concepts for electronic products and systems to colleagues, management and other stakeholders,
• Drawing up detailed drawings, schematics and models using computer design software,
• Review and release drawing including schematic, pcb capture and assembly drawing to manufacturers
• Basic understanding of programming languages and ability to work with software tools (flashing/debugging tools and similar),
• Ability to prepare cost estimates for product and technical solution.
• Experience of defining and performing set-to-work and verification & validation, including simulation, worst-case analysis, bench testing,
• Running effective testing and diagnostics that lead to measured product improvements,
• General knowledge and understanding of EMC in a power electronics context,

Desirable Skills

• Demonstrable experience of product life cycle design and support in electronics team environment,
• Designing and building electronic components and circuits for use in products,
• It would be beneficial to have knowledge of 3-phase inverters, DC-DC converters, microcontrollers, and analog electronics,
• It would be advantages to have prior experience with PCB layout design and design for manufacturing.
• Experience of working with electronic manufacturing in a moderate volume commercial or automotive context and interfacing with suppliers
• Knowledge and/or experience of Systems Engineering principles, e.g. Requirements, Traceability,
• Comfortable working on multiple projects simultaneously,
• Knowledge of system engineering would be advantageous.
• Knowledge of working to safety standards, e.g. IEC61508, ISO26262,
• Knowledge of selecting and specifying cabling & connectors,
• Knowledge of batteries and electric machines.

Education

Ideally the individual will have the following educational and professional qualifications or experience:

• Degree education in related subjects (computer science, systems engineering, electronics, electrical engineering, mechatronics, or equivalent),
• The ability to demonstrate a solid engineering/technical background in a relevant environment,
• The ability to demonstrate hands-on experience in a similar role,
• The successful candidate will have at least 2+ years' experience as an engineer, within R&D or commercial product design in electronics setting.