Lead Hardware Engineer Location: Blackburn (hybrid - 1 day onsite per week) Salary: up to £75,000 + benefits The company A long-established technology manufacturer designing and building intelligent electronic products for global markets. With a strong, multi-year roadmap, they re investing in RandD and strengthening their hardware capability. The role You ll be the go-to hardware specialist in a close-knit product team, taking ownership of system-level design and collaborating daily with embedded firmware engineers. Expect a hands-on role spanning concept, schematic, layout input, bring-up, EMC, and release to manufacture. What you ll be doing End-to-end hardware development for embedded systems (schematic capture, component selection, DfM/DfT, verification). Board bring-up, lab debugging, and problem-solving using scopes, logic analysers, and JTAG tools. Partnering with firmware to define interfaces, power budgets, and test strategies. Driving EMC/EMI compliance from design-through to test and sign-off. Supporting NPI, test fixtures, documentation, and sustaining engineering as products scale. What you ll need: Solid PCB design/layout awareness with a pragmatic approach to EMC/EMI. Analogue design skills (sensors/ADC interfacing, DC/DC power stages). Strong system design experience with single-chip MCUs (e.g. Renesas M16C, TI MSP430, STM32) and associated debug toolchains. Exposure to higher-end application processors (e.g. NXP i.MX6, ARM Cortex-A7). Knowledge of ..... full job details .....