No, not another dating thread, this one is for a purely professional relationship.

Akai Digital Ltd are seeking a hardware designer to work on staff at our Cambridge UK office. The successful candidate will be an experienced designer of embedded microprocessor systems, especially (but not limited to) ARM/X-Scale. FPGA or other VHDL experience would be advantageous.

As well as digital experience it would be desirable for the candidate to have audio experience, particularly where coupled with a digital source. The ability to design and lay out low noise high quality audio circuits would set the candidate above another with digital experience only. Professional audio application experience would be the icing on the cake, but is not as important as a sound knowledge of analogue good practice.

The role will be responsible for designing schematics, laying out prototype boards and sometimes taking those forward to a production-ready state. Experience working with overseas contract manufacturers would be useful.

Akai Digital use the Mentor PADS schematic and PCB CAD package. Specific PADS experience would be beneficial, but solid experience with a similar package would be acceptable (provided the candidate is willing to switch).

Hands on experience with assembling and debugging prototype hardware is required, including manual SMT rework within reason. The use of scopes, logic analysers and other common test gear should be second nature. The ability and willingness to work closely with a software team during design and troubleshooting activities is essential.

This role would suit an experienced engineer. Salary according to experience within the scale £42,000 - £46,000 with benefits including 4% matched pension contributions and private health insurance.

If interested please contact Rob Voisey ([email protected]) with your CV and hardware related haiku*.

Rob

* Haiku optional

I assume you've already *GOT* Patrick, or that he somehow can't/won't take the position?

Do you give bonuses for patents?