About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 119 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 26,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.

As we move forward, our consumers will be at the heart of what we do, evolving to needs and expectations and committing to a more meaningful contribution to harm reduction by building a successful NGP business. Integral to our long-term success is our sustainability strategy, behaving responsibly and supporting our ambitions, all underpinned by high governance.

Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

The Role

Working within the Device Engineering Team and reporting to the Electronics Development Manager.  This role will be for an Electronics Design Engineer on New Product Development projects within the R&D pillar of the Innovation function. The role plays a key part in device development for all new product development projects.

What will you do?

• Work with partners to develop designs through the full product lifecycle; from component selection, schematic capture, PCB Design, basic firmware development, through to manufacture, delivering prototypes and technical solutions for innovation projects.
• Expertise in Electronic Engineering for development and technology projects to deliver against design brief and functional performance.
• Developing innovative concepts to solve engineering challenges.
• Managing the prototype design, iterative development, and debug/testing activities to validate these concepts, mitigating risk and leverage the capabilities of the team.
• Work closely with multifunctional counterparts (Marketing/Category, MSC, Quality and Regulatory) to deliver fit for purpose propositions (Consumer, Cost, Scalability) and ensure technical requirements are clearly understood
• Develop strong relationships with partners and suppliers to enable access to newest technologies and facilitate prototype production and scale up to full production.
• Mentor Electronics and Test Engineers within the team to help build internal skills/capabilities

What are We Looking For?

Essential

• BEng/MEng in Electronic Engineering (or equivalent)
• Extensive experience in high volume product development
• Schematic Capture & PCB Design for low power applications
• Bare metal / RTOS firmware development in C using IDE development tools e.g., Keil, GNU based IDEs (STM32CubeIDE, MCUXpresso or similar)
• Can-do attitude and willingness to learn new skills.
• Excellent time management, communication, and problem-solving skills
• Lead and Manage projects, collaborate with internal and external partners.

Desirable Experience

• Design of Li-Ion battery power devices
• Developing test / configuration / programming solutions which may include a Windows GUI (e.g., Python / Visual C# etc)
• Excellent understanding of hardware systems, I2C, SPI protocols, or other communication protocols
• Developing test / configuration / programming solutions which may include a Windows GUI (e.g., Python / Visual C# etc)
• Wireless technologies (Bluetooth/Wi-Fi etc.)
• Experience working and managing Azure DevOps/GIT repositories (or similar) for software / hardware designs.
• Experience in developing Bluetooth Phone Apps or having an interest to learn how to develop them.
• Experience in electronic development of electronic consumer products or medical devices
• DFMEA Experience.

What We Offer?

Competitive salary, bonus scheme, pension, and 25 days holiday (with an additional 4 days on top to cover the Christmas period, and bank holidays), flexible working policy, corporate discounts, Health Cash Plan, and other wellbeing initiatives.

Imperial Brands is committed to inclusiveness and creating a work environment where differences are expected, accepted, and valued and people feel like they belong. We embrace diversity in our workforce, as part of this, there are four employee resource groups focused on Gender, Disability, LGBTQ+, and Ethnicity which any employee can join.

If you’re a person with a disability or have a condition that you believe may affect your performance during our selection process, we are more than happy to make reasonable adjustments for you during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self.

Please click here resourcing@uk.imptob.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview. Don’t talk yourself out of applying.

Next Steps

Do you think your skills match what we are looking for? Then get applying and tell us why you think you’d be the right person for the job!

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation.

We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions, or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants.

We welcome talented people with stories to tell, who can bring fresh thinking, new ideas and different experiences to our business and believe in enabling every person to succeed; to deliver their best performance and realise their full potential.

We understand that these are the things that make you ‘you’ and if you join us, we’ll support you in being able and confident to share your whole self with us.  

We look forward to hearing from you!