Electrical Engineer (Tooling)

Harmattan AI is scaling multiple hardware programmes and needs internal tooling to help the engineering teams develop and validate products faster. The new R&D Hardware Tooling team builds the rigs, fixtures, and instrumentation that accelerate design, bring-up, characterisation, and validation across every hardware product. These are development and validation tools used in the lab and in R&D workflows — not production test equipment for a manufacturing line. This role owns the electronics of those tools end-to-end: breakout and interface boards, instrumentation and DAQ hardware, signal-conditioning and debug-access boards, and RF characterisation fixtures. Unlike product electronics optimised for cost at volume, tooling electronics prioritise measurement accuracy, flexibility, robustness, and fast turnaround.

Ideal candidate

A hardware engineer who has designed instrumentation, breakout, or DAQ electronics – or product PCBs – and now wants to build the tools. Rigorous on schematics, layout, and bring-up, with a strong instinct for measurement integrity and quick, reconfigurable designs. Comfortable working autonomously in a small team and able to bridge hardware and firmware, working closely with the tooling software engineer.

Required skills

PCB schematic and layout design (Altium Designer preferred)

Mixed-signal design: power, MCU interfaces, comms buses (SPI, I2C, UART, USB, CAN)

Instrumentation / DAQ / breakout design (signal conditioning, measurement front-ends)

RF / controlled impedance / EMC — nice to have

Hardware bring-up and bench debug; measurement integrity and calibration

Component selection and BOM for low-volume, high-mix tooling