Nick Child

Lead Electronic Engineer

Camberley, England, United Kingdom

About

Electronic Engineer with over fifteen years experience working as a Hardware Design/ Applications Engineer. Experience with the complete product development cycle including hardware development, software, test, and customer interfacing. Strong background in high-frequency PCB layout, circuit design, schematic capture and debug. Experience of leading a team and representing the company.

Experience

  • BAE Systems Digital Intelligence (7 yrs 1 mo)
    • Lead Electronic Engineer
      Jul 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

    • Senior Electronic Engineer
      Jul 2019 - Jul 2022 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Socionext Europe (4 yrs 5 mos)
    • Principal Application Engineer
      Apr 2018 - Jul 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

    • Senior Application Engineer & Team Lead
      Apr 2017 - Apr 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Design, support and team lead role focused around high-speed data converters up to 128GSa/s. Responsible for managing a team of engineers to produce software and hardware used for supporting latest generation devices. Board level design of test/evaluation and customer development kits targeting frequencies to 64GHz, circuit design, schematic capture, PCB layout, full manufacturing, test, and customer support.

    • Senior Application Engineer
      Mar 2015 - Mar 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Design and support focused role based around high-speed data converters up to 128GSa/s. Responsible for board level design of test/evaluation and customer development kits targeting frequencies to 50GHz and above. Circuit design, schematic capture, PCB layout, full manufacturing, test, customer support, and software/FPGA experience.

  • Applications Engineer at Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe
    Aug 2008 - Feb 2015 · 6 yrs 7 mos

    Focus around 56-93GSa/s data converters, largely centred on customer development kits. Circuit design, schematic capture and PCB layout. Software and hardware testing and development. Customer support. Complete build procedure.

  • Student Engineer at Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe
    Aug 2006 - Sep 2007 · 1 yr 2 mos

    Hardware and software development for GPS dead reckoning system. Support of 1GSa/S 14-bit DAC.