Candidate Electronic Design Engineer (vacancy)

Candidate Electronic Design Engineer (vacancy)

About the job:

The CSIR has a vacancy for candidate electronic design engineer in the in the radar and electronic warfare impact area, within the defence and security cluster. The incumbent will be responsible to develop world-class high speed digital hardware, firmware, and embedded sotfware for electronic defence applications. This position is based in pretoria.

Key responsibilities: 

> Develop (design, layout and firmware developmant) of high-speed digital modules for advanced EW scenario simulators.

> Develop, control, interface and signal distribution modulas for advanced hardware-in-loop facilities.

> Layout PC boards for Radio Frequency designs.

> Assemble, debug, set-to-work and testing of hardware.

> Support procurement of components.

> Provide cofiguration control and version management of designs, layout and manufacturing files.

Qualifacations, skills and experience:

> A bachelor of Engineering degree in electronic engineering.

> An Honours or Masters degree in the relevant field will be advantageous.

Experience in the following will be advantageous: 

* Debugging hardware.

* Firmware and embedded software development.

* High-speed digital and mixed signal hardware design.

> Must have the following skills/ training: 

* Formal/ informal hardware design.

* Formal/ informal embedded software training.

*Multiple operating systems.

* Proven capability of document preparation