BAE Systems is planning to recruit over 2,400 apprentices, undergraduates and graduates in 2025, “which will result in a record number of 6,500 in training, making up approximately 15% of its UK workforce”, it said, while anticipating to spend £230m on education and skills next year. “As the UK’s largest defence company, we rely on the skill and ingenuity of those ...
Filtronic has opened a design centre in Manchester, focused on developing mmWave technology for satellite communications, as well as hired several engineers for its design and its process engineering teams. “Establishing the new centre for satellite communication design has enabled us to expand our physical footprint across three UK locations: Sedgefield, Leeds and now Manchester, and has assisted us in ...
Electronics design and software development consultancy Ignys is looking for engineering staff for its Nottingham base. “We are experiencing a high amount of interest from inventors and product managers, and the technology industry is experiencing a boom as businesses adapt to a new way of thinking and trying new things” said MD Richard Fletcher. “We need to look to the future ...
Saman Sadr discusses changes in the role of a chip engineer and shares tips on how to find and retain good ones. While it has become second nature to reach for a chip (each with a few billion transistors) to build a basic device, what many people don’t appreciate is that in order to create that small rectangle of silicon, ...
The number of jobs advertised in the UK technology sector grew by 12% last year, one of the fastest rates across UK industries, according to new data from Reed Technology. The agency’s survey also found that advertised salaries in the sector grew by 1.6% in the last year alone with advertised salaries for some roles increasing as much as 9% ...
London’s technology sector may be competing with the world’s best-known tech city, San Francisco when it comes to job opportunities, but can the good times last? London could be “stopped in its tracks by the restlessness of its tech workforce”, according to research by recruitment website Indeed. The research found that 10.8% of all jobs advertised in the capital are ...
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has revealed plans to recruit 1,000 electronics and software engineers as part of a huge recruitment drive.
Dyson is expanding its electronics design capabilities to support current and future product developments. A new robotics development centre at the consumer manufacturer’s facility at Malmesbury in Wiltshire is planned to open this year. The level of electronics and software design necessary for products such as the Dyson 360 Eye robotic cleaner, which was unveiled in Japan last year, is ...
From being a small part of the traditional vacuum cleaner to defining the product itself with the latest robotic vacuum cleaner, Dyson is placing electronics at the heart of its product development plans. As a result the consumer products company is dramatically expanding its electronics hardware and software development teams and it is building a new R&D centre in the ...
IAR Systems is providing development tool support for Atmel's recently announced picoPower AVR32 UC3L microcontroller family that features a built-in hardware c
Electronics Weekly
