Principal Electronic Engineer

Senior or Principal Electronic Engineers

Newcastle Upon Tyne

Salary: £50,000-£75,000 + benefits

Jackson Hogg is delighted to be working with a growing defence organisation to being a Senior or a Principal Electronic Engineer to lead the design and delivery of advanced electronic systems used in electro-optical products and autonomous tracking platforms.

This is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role for an engineer who wants end-to-end ownership and technical authority. You’ll operate at a system level while staying close to the hardware, driving designs from concept through certification and into deployment.

Principal Electronic Engineer Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development and validation of electronic systems for complex electro-optical and autonomous products.

• Define electronics architectures, balancing performance, safety, cost, manufacturability, environmental constraints and long-term maintainability.

• Act as design authority, setting and upholding electronics engineering standards across the organisation.

• Oversee and review schematic capture and PCB design, ensuring robustness across power integrity, signal integrity and EMC.

• Guide verification, validation and compliance, working with external test houses to achieve EMC, safety and environmental certification.

• Take ownership across the full product lifecycle – from requirements and architecture through prototypes, qualification and fielded systems.

• Mentor and develop electronics engineers, building capability and reinforcing best practices.

• Collaborate closely with mechanical, firmware, software and systems teams to ensure cohesive, integrated designs.

• Balance hands-on technical delivery with leadership, prioritising across multiple programmes in a fast-paced environment.

Principal Electronic Engineer Key Requirements:

• Degree in Electronics, Electrical Engineering or a related discipline

• Significant experience delivering complex, safety-critical or high-performance electronic systems.

• Strong expertise in schematic capture and PCB design (Altium preferred), including multilayer, high-density and mixed-signal boards

• Solid technical grounding across several of the following domains:

  • Power electronics and power distribution (DC/DC, protection, motor drivers)

  • High-speed digital design (Gigabit Ethernet, USB, microcontrollers, FPGA)

  • Analogue electronics (sensors, amplifiers, precision interfaces)

  • EMC design, grounding, filtering and shielding

  • Ruggedised or defence-grade design practices

• Experience in defining system architectures, requirements and structured engineering processes.

• Proven ability to plan and execute verification and validation, including environmental and EMC testing.

• Comfortable mentoring others and operating as a senior technical authority.

• Able to work autonomously, manage competing priorities and make sound engineering decisions under pressure.

This is a permanent, full-time on-site role with flexible working hours and a competitive benefits package.

If you are interested in the role please get in touch using the details below.