We are recruiting a Hardware Engineer to join our team based in Germany, Telgte. This role will have responsibility for full lifecycle product development with a focus on electronics, from requirements analysis through to design and test of high quality/robust designs (cradle to grave) for our Nursecall products.

What will you be doing in this role?

As a Hardware Engineer at Tunstall Healthcare, the key responsibilities of the role focus on electronic design and full lifecycle product development in conjunction with our embedded software team.

The Ideal candidate:

We are looking for someone that has experience of layout, CAD and electronic design work in a device control-focused environment

Key skills and experience:

Required skills and experience

Essential:

• Experience in developing embedded real-time systems, low power and mains powered products, communications system.
• Proven experience of design ownership.
• Standard interfacing circuits - UART, ADC's, DAC's, I2C, SPI, Differential comms. (USB, Ethernet, RS232, RS485 etc).
• Mix digital and analogue design.
• Schematic and PCB layout capture using CAD (Altium preferred).
• Design documentation (requirement specs, design documents, TCF, BFT, etc.),
• Engineering release and change control,
• Engineering Degree (Electronics or Electrical & Electronics, Physics or Applied Physics).

Desirable

• Experience of complete product lifecycle development.
• Low level analogue design, miscellaneous interfacing circuitry etc.
• Proficient in interpreting industrial standards and design product to comply with the relevant standards.
• Experience in the development of hardware-related software in C/C++ for modern microcontrollers desirable
• System level design experience.
• Technical leadership.
• Board bring-up, debug, test and validation.
• Rapid prototype techniques/experience.
• Good knowledge of German and English

If you are not sure if you have the relevant skills or experience, then please apply (only takes a few minutes) and let our team review and come back to you.

What we offer:

• A professional environment with challenging projects
• Open door mentality and short decision-making processes in an international company
• A 38-hour week, flexible working hours, 30 days' holiday and the opportunity to work from home
• Quarterly staff feedback reviews and individual training and further development
• Support with pension provision and asset formation
• Employee discounts and employee events
• Company bike leasing and Job ticket

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Full lifecycle product development for nurse call systems in hospitals, prison and care homes, from requirements analysis through to design and test of high quality and robust designs (cradle to grave)
• Robust hardware design using microprocessors, embedded real-time systems, and energy efficient products.
• Circuit design (analogue, digital), dimensioning, simulation and layout creation
• Working alongside with the development teams: Mechanical, Firmware and Test engineers.
• Design for volume manufacture.
• Design for mechanical, test and service.
• Obsolescence within current product.
• Design testing and validation.
• Product certification, VDE0834, EMC, Safety, CE, etc.
• Preparation of product documentation.

A bit about us:

Tunstall is a market-leading health and care technology provider.

We’re passionate about ensuring our team reflects the brilliant and unique qualities of the people and communities we support. Our incredible team of more than 3,000 colleagues provides lifesaving and life changing technology and services to millions of people in 18 different countries.

At Tunstall you’ll find a place where you’re valued and celebrated for being yourself. We empower our people to deliver the very best teamwork, innovation and thought leadership by creating an environment where we champion diversity and inclusion. We demonstrate our commitment to diversity and inclusion at each step. From our open, fair, and transparent recruitment processes, through to the many development and career growth opportunities we provide.

Each Tunstall colleague has a superpower… they’re unique. No one else is them, and we think that’s special. Come and join our mission and be part of our team, our One Tunstall team.