Electronic Design Engineer – Calrec Audio
Your work will be heard on live television every day. Calrec has shaped broadcast audio for over 60 years, and the equipment you help design and develop powers the world's most-watched live events. If you want your engineering to have real, audible impact, this is the role for you.
About Calrec
Calrec is a leading designer and supplier of professional audio broadcast mixing equipment, trusted by the world's most successful broadcasters.
Based in Hebden Bridge, we've built a reputation for build quality, reliability, and audio performance that sets the industry benchmark.
What you'll be doing
You'll support the design, development, verification, and maintenance of electronic hardware across Calrec's professional audio product range. Over time, you'll take on increasing responsibility for system-level and module-level electronic design.
- Investigate and troubleshoot hardware issues during development and product testing
- Design, build, and maintain test setups to support product evaluation and validation
- Assist with board bring-up, debugging, and performance evaluation of prototype hardware
- Develop and execute hardware test plans and accurately document results
- Analyse faults at system, module, and component level using appropriate equipment
- Work with digital systems including processor modules, FPGAs, SSD, DDR memory, and Ethernet-based interfaces
- Work with PCB schematics, layouts, and design documentation
- Assist with pre-compliance testing in our purpose-built EMC facility
- Collaborate with hardware, FPGA, software, and test engineers across the product lifecycle
- Contribute to design reviews, continuous improvement, and engineering product support
What you'll need
- Degree in Electronics or a closely related engineering discipline
- Minimum two years' commercial experience in electronic product development
- Understanding of digital electronic design principles
- Experience working with electronic schematics and PCB designs
- Familiarity with an EDA tool such as Altium Designer, Cadence, or Mentor Graphics
- Hardware debugging and fault-finding techniques
- Competence with test equipment including oscilloscopes, logic analysers, and multi-meters
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail
- Good communication skills and the ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team
- Strong personal organisation and time management
- Excellent PC skills
Desirable experience
- Exposure to audio systems
- Altium Designer
- FPGA-based systems
- High-speed digital design
- DDR memory interfaces
- Ethernet networking
- Embedded processor systems