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About the Role

Ultra Maritime is a global leader in advanced maritime defence solutions, delivering technologies that protect lives, secure nations, and enable a safer, more sustainable world. As a Principal Electronics Engineer, you will guide engineering delivery, develop technical capability, and ensure high standards within the Electronic and Electrical discipline, advancing technical capabilities and delivering mission-critical solutions.

Responsibilities

Deliver Electronic Design: Contribute to the definition, development, and implementation of reliable, high-integrity electronics for defence and aerospace applications, including digital, analogue, mixed-signal, and power electronics.
Support architectural development and detailed design activities, including schematic capture, PCB layout input, hardware prototyping, and qualification support.
Technical Assurance and Design Reviews: Lead or participate in design reviews (PDR, CDR, etc.) to ensure compliance with performance, environmental, EMC/EMI, and safety requirements.
Ensure engineering deliverables meet quality expectations, certification requirements, and customer standards.
Lifecycle and Product Excellence: Promote Design for Cost, Test, Manufacture, Support, and Reliability across all design activities.
Collaborate with manufacturing, production, and systems engineering to optimize design robustness and manufacturability.
Team Development and Mentorship: Provide day-to-day technical leadership to engineers across the Electronic and Electrical discipline.
Mentor junior and senior engineers, support professional registration pathways, and help build a high-performance, inclusive engineering culture.
Technical Governance and Continuous Improvement: Contribute to the evolution of engineering processes, tools, and governance frameworks.
Drive improvements in design quality, engineering discipline maturity, and adherence to high technical standards.
Strategic Resource Planning: Support recruitment, induction, and development activities to strengthen team capabilities.
Help identify future skill needs and contribute to capability development plans aligned with business growth.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Systems, Software, Mechanical, Production, and Programme Management teams to ensure aligned and integrated engineering delivery.
Contribute to technical elements of bids, proposals, and customer engagements.
Project Delivery Support: Provide technical oversight across project phases, ensuring risks, issues, dependencies, and engineering priorities are clearly understood and managed.
Support compliance with export controls, safety standards, and defence accreditation requirements.

Requirements

We are seeking a collaborative technical leader with strong domain knowledge and experience delivering complex electronic solutions within aerospace or defence environments.
Demonstrable experience delivering complex, multi-layer board designs with some of the following technologies for demanding environments – FPGA / microprocessor-based systems, high-reliability power supplies, signal conditioning circuits.
Builds trust and fosters inclusive, psychologically safe teams.
Recognised for mentoring engineering talent and promoting diversity of thought, encouraging professional growth and recognises individual contributions.
Strong interpersonal skills. Confident in representing internal and external stakeholder interests, especially in customer-focused environments.
Advocates for continuous improvement and encourages creativity across teams.
Organised and quality focused. Ensures robust processes and timely delivery across multiple priorities.
Able to work effectively in dynamic environments. Manages priorities while maintaining focus on business outcomes.
All candidates must be eligible to achieve the relevant security vetting level applicable to the role.
This role requires you to undergo Baseline Personnel Security Standard Check (BPSS) as a minimum and some roles will require further national security vetting checks.
In line with Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years.
Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided.

Skills

FPGA / microprocessor-based systems
High-reliability power supplies
Signal conditioning circuits
Electronic Design
Digital electronics
Analogue electronics
Mixed-signal electronics
Power electronics
Schematic capture
PCB layout input
Hardware prototyping
Qualification support
Design reviews
Technical assurance
Team leadership
Mentorship
Stakeholder engagement
Continuous improvement
Process improvement
Risk management
Export controls
Safety standards
Defence accreditation

Location

Work Type

Hybrid working for certain job roles

Experience Level

Principal

Education Level

Masters / Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
Chartered Engineer (CEng) preferred, or able to achieve chartered status.

Benefits

Optional 9 day fortnight
TOIL
Flexible working hours
1pm finish on a Friday
Annual bonus – dependent on level (Non-managers = 5%, Managers = 10%)
Casual dress
25 days holiday
Christmas shut down – use three days of annual leave to cover this
Option to buy or sell holiday
Option to purchase private health care, dental, critical illness etc via salary sacrifice
Reward hub - discounts at over 200 online stores
4 x annual salary life cover
Pension starting at 5% Employer / 4% Employee (Employee contribution level can be selected from 4% to 70%)

About the Company

Ultra Maritime is a global leader in advanced maritime defence solutions.
We operate at the forefront of innovation, delivering technologies that protect lives, secure nations, and enable a safer, more sustainable world.
Ultra specialises in providing application-engineered bespoke solutions.
We focus on our customers’ mission critical and intelligent systems in the defence, security, critical detection, & control markets.
Our capabilities and technologies can be found on many of the world’s long-term military programmes.
We employ over 4,500 employees across the globe and are listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Equal Opportunity

Ultra Maritime embraces the power of diverse perspectives to fuel innovation.
We strive to build an open, inclusive workplace where ideas flourish and every individual can make a meaningful impact.
If you need any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let the recruitment lead managing your application know.