Graduate Hardware Engineer Maidenhead 2023

We are global market leaders within embedded encryption solutions which is forged by decades of Cryptographic engineering accomplishments.
We protect highly sensitive information, working with nations worldwide to help ensure their information is secure. Our engineers work on the most difficult cybersecurity challenges to protect our national security and critical infrastructure; we strive to protect what matters.

Why Join our Graduate Scheme?

We are seeking talented graduates with a passion for cyber-security and engineering with an inquisitive mind, an intrinsic interest in innovation, enthusiasm for solving complex technical engineering problems, and achieving success through teamwork. You will be provided with a unique experience to work on a range of projects from early inception to delivery in addition to early research activities pathfinding future crypto solutions.

• The 2-year graduate programme is structured upon four rotations, nominally 6 months duration, with exposure to a variety of key engineering disciplines including Systems, Software, Electronics, FPGA and Environmental Test Engineering as well as other departments outside of engineering
• Your home discipline will be within Electronics Engineering where you will begin and end your graduate journey
• After completion of the two-year scheme, you are guaranteed a position at Ultra Cyber within the electronics engineering function, unless exposure to another area has prompted an interest to change discipline
• Opportunity to increase earning potential with 6-monthly pay reviews based on individual performance and embodying the Ultra Cyber ASPIRE values
• You will be provided with excellent support, including direct access to a mentor (independent of your line manager), on-the-job coaching by senior team members, and formal training in both soft and technical skills
• We encourage graduates to participate in completing their Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to progress their engineering competence and work towards professional recognition of their achievements. We also help support our engineers to become chartered or incorporated
• Ultra urges all graduates to be STEM advocates through activities such as school, college and university engagement and volunteering.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the creation of electronics requirements, architecture, and design documentation.
• Develop block diagrams and schematics for digital and analogue electronics required for product development.
• Select optimum components that meet the requirements.
• Perform design calculations and carry out simulations in order to estimate performance.
• Participate in the build of prototypes and identify problem areas.
• Test and verify electronic hardware according to the hardware development process.

Skills Required

• Relevant degree in a STEM related discipline with a minimum of a lower second-class honour’s degree.
• Use of circuit simulation tools for example SPICE and signal integrity.
• Ability to create schematics using a schematic capture tool.
• Basic knowledge of analogue and digital circuits.
• Electronics based final year project.

Desirable Skills

• PCB layout knowledge.
• Testing of electronic circuits using standard lab equipment.
• Thermal analysis of electronic components.
• Willing and able to obtain, and maintain, SC/DV security clearance

Benefits 

• Annual bonus
• 25 days’ holiday with the option to buy or sell 5 days
• 4 x Life Assurance Cover
• Flexible working hours
• Early Finish on a Friday
• Hybrid working
• Pension Contribution
• Our Ultra Select Benefits package including – subsidised gym & retail, cycle to work schemes, etc.

We trust and empower each other; we love to celebrate success and we win as a team. Together, we embrace change and we’re never satisfied until we’ve done what we said we’d do