We are looking for an enthusiastic and talented Test Engineer to join our rapidly-expanding Research & Development team in Lymington, Hampshire (commutable from Bournemouth, Southampton, Winchester, Salisbury).

You will be responsible for supporting the engineering team in the full product realisation process including product testing, compliance and ongoing upgrades and support.

Specific Responsibilities

• High level test of complex products
• Test and debugging down to component levels
• Assisting with the productionisation of new products
• Test and debugging of electronics circuits
• Build of test and manufacturing fixtures
• Modifying test scripts
• Environmental, ruggedness and performance testing
• Liaison with other members of the Research and Development Team

Racecar Engineering's Andrew Cotton presents awards to Mike Rees (left) and Neville Meech (right)

“As focus within top level Motorsport moves towards fuel efficiency, accurate monitoring of fuel usage is rapidly becoming an essential element of most telemetry systems”, says Mike Rees, Head of Marketing at Gill Sensors. “The Gill Fuel Flow Meter has been designed specifically to address these requirements, providing governing bodies, race teams and engine developers alike with a means of accurately monitoring fuel flow and usage in real time”.

The Award Winning Ultrasonic Fuel Flow Meter

The Ultrasonic Fuel Flow Meter uses Gill’s proven ultrasonic measurement technology to detect bi-directional fuel flow rate to 0.3% accuracy in real time. This technology has a number of major advantages over impeller flow meters, the most significant of which is the removal of mechanical parts from the flow path. This ensures minimal pressure drop across the sensor, providing true flow rate data with little impact on the flow itself. The removal of mechanical moving parts and bearings also eliminates mechanical damping and allows much higher temporal resolution and accuracy for the capture and measurement of high frequency pulsating flows.

The detail provided within the flow data allows engineers to fully analyse fuel flow characteristics, with the sensor’s high level of sensitivity allowing even the pulses of individual fuel injectors to be identified at low RPM limits.

The Ultrasonic Fuel Flow Meter has been designed for use with all race fuels, including aggressive ethanol blends, and is capable of accurately recording flow rate from 0.5ml/min to 6500ml/min. With no moving parts to jam, break or wear out, the meter provides extremely reliable operation even in the harshest of operating environments.

Car Test at Palm Beach Raceway

The meter features a newly-developed electronic platform, which integrates the latest FPGA technology capable of measuring flow rate up to 4000 times a second. In addition to a digital output, a 0-5V analogue output is provided across the calibrated flow range.

The Gill Ultrasonic Fuel Flow Meter has undergone a series of dyno and car tests to date, including a day’s testing on a Core Autosport LMPC race car at Palm Beach International Raceway in December 2011. Another series of high profile car and dyno tests are scheduled in Europe and America throughout January and February 2012.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and talented Machineshop / Modelshop Technician to join our rapidly-expanding Research and Development team in Lymington, Hampshire (commutable from Bournemouth, Southampton, Winchester, Salisbury).

Working with the machineshop engineer, you will be manufacturing metal and plastic components to supplied drawings and designs.

Specific Responsibilities

• Build of machined parts to drawings provided using CNC mill and CNC lathes and other workshop tools.
• To assist design engineers in the manufacture and build of prototype electro-mechanical assemblies and small batch production
• Inspection
• Building of manufacturing jigs and equipment
• Liaison with other members of the design team from various disciplines

Position Requirements

• Machine shop background.
• Proficient in the use of CNC mill, lathes and other machine shop tools
• Ability to read engineering drawings
• Good understanding of mechanical principals
• Understanding of safe handling of electronic products and components

Additional advantageous experience:

• Familiar with ISO9001: 2008

Person Specification

• Organised, self-motivated individual with initiative.
• Equally at home working as part of a team or on their own.

Direct applicants only – agency applications will not be accepted.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and talented Software Design Engineer to join our rapidly-expanding Research and Development team in Lymington, Hampshire (commutable from Bournemouth, Southampton, Winchester, Salisbury).

You will be designing, developing and supporting embedded electronics software solutions for a variety of standard and bespoke products using both high level and assembler based programming languages. Designing, developing and supporting Graphical User Interfaces for the above products. Generating documentation for and controlling software both internally and for external release

Specific Responsibilities

• Generation of quotations against customer specifications for software on both PC and embedded platforms.
• System level design of software for PC or embedded software.
• Design and development of software in ANSI C or assembler language for various target processors.
• Design and development of Graphical User Interfaces on PC platforms.
• Production of user manuals or instructions for software controlled systems.
• Revision control and release of software to ISO9000: 2000 standards.
• Preparing software documentation package.
• System level test and debugging.
• Liaison with other members of the Research and Development Team.
• Transfer of the design effectively to other members of the team and manufacturing company.
• Project management.
• Support of and enhancements to existing software.
• Customer and sales support

Position Requirements

• Demonstrable experience real-time embedded software design in ANSI C and assembly language.
• Demonstrable design experience of Windows programming.
• System level design using OOD or UML
• Production of documentation including specifications, release of software and user manuals.
• Proficiency in mathematics and or physics.

Additional advantageous experience:

• Knowledge of sensors and sensing technology
• Knowledge of Microchip PICMicro, and Hitachi, or ARM range of processors.
• Communications such as CAN, RS485, RS232, etc.
• Basic electronics and ability to read circuit diagrams
• Use of laboratory equipment (Oscilloscopes, DVMs, signal generators etc)

Person Specification

• Innovative and creative
• Organised, self-motivated individual with initiative.
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Appreciation of a wide variety of engineering and scientific fields
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written
• Must demonstrate a sound knowledge of engineering principles.
• Hold or be able to achieve UK security clearance (SC)

Direct applicants only – agency applications will not be accepted.

A significant opportunity exists within our company to use Python to automate previously labor-intensive and repetitive tasks, including: Functional test execution and reporting; Performance test execution and reporting; Software compilation execution and reporting.

In each case, the candidate should propose and develop a suitable user-interface, implement the application, and continue to support the application if and when additional requirements are identified. Tools should be easy to use, and be capable of producing reports in a flexible and transferable standard format (e.g. in XML).

It is believed other areas of the business could also benefit from automation, and one of the key roles of the position is to identify these, propose solutions, and where approved, implement these.

Specific Responsibilities

• Development and maintenance of automated test applications
  • Communicating with devices with a wide range of standard and non-standard protocols
  • Controlling external test-equipment (e.g. environmental chambers, DVMs, etc.)
  • Automatically performing functional tests on devices and systems, as specified by engineering
  • Automatically producing reports of steps taken during each test
  • Automatically producing reports of results of tests performed
• Development and maintenance of other business-related applications
  • Design and creation of straightforward user-interfaces
  • Interfacing with APIs supplied by dynamic libraries
  • Performing some statistical analysis and producing suitable reports
• Identifying new opportunities within the business that would benefit from automation
• Estimating time required to implement defined work packages
• Tracking personal hours spent on tasks

Position Requirements

• Good academic achievements to degree level or equivalent in relevant subject
• Suitable level of experience in lieu of qualifications
• Python (including wx, numpy/scipy, ctypes)
• Other Object-Oriented languages, e.g. C++
• UML 2.0
• Windows operating systems
• SVN or other version-control systems
• GUI design of tools to be used in-house
• Capable of giving estimates for defined work packages
• Ability to work under pressure and on several projects at once

Additional advantageous experience:

• Measurement and control of real-time systems
• Communications protocols (e.g. serial, USB, TCP, IEEE)
• XML, HTML, CSS
• SQL and Access databases
• Use of Wikis
• Physics

Person Specification

• Organised, self-motivated individual
• Creative, and self confident
• Equally at home working as part of a group or individually
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written

Direct applicants only – agency applications will not be accepted.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and talented Hardware/Systems Design Engineer to join our rapidly-expanding Research and Development team in Lymington, Hampshire (commutable from Bournemouth, Southampton, Winchester, Salisbury).

You will be designing, developing and supporting systems and electronics hardware solutions for a variety of standard and bespoke products. In addition, you will be expected to generate documentation for and controlling designs both internally and for external release.

Specific Responsibilities

• System level design in analogue and digital low-power electronics hardware.
• Detailed design of electronics hardware from initial concept schematic diagram through to manufacture
• Production of hardware specification documentation.
• Controlled release of designs and manufacturing information to BS EN ISO 9000: 2008 standard.
• System to component level test and debugging.
• Support of and enhancements to existing electronics hardware.
• Customer and sales support

Position Requirements

• Excellent academic achievements to degree level or equivalent in electronics engineering or closely related subject
• Able to provide at least 3 examples of instances where they have provided innovative ideas to products or designs
• Able to provide examples of the use of simulation tools to prove designs.
• Demonstrable design experience of electronics hardware design for embedded systems.
• Circuit design to single transistor level for analogue and digital signal processing
• Proficiency in mathematics and/or physics.
• Good understanding of mechanical design principles and electronics packaging
• EMC and Environmental testing
• Use of laboratory equipment (Oscilloscopes, DVMs, signal generators etc)
• Proficiency in PADs or other similar ECAD software
• FPGA based design

Additional advantageous experience:

• Knowledge of sensors and sensing technology
• Understanding of software both high and low level
• Communication standards (CAN, RS485, RS232, USB etc.)
• Low power design
• Control Theory and DSP techniques

Person Specification

• Organised, self-motivated individual with initiative.
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written
• Must demonstrate a sound knowledge of engineering principles.

Direct applicants only – agency applications will not be accepted.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and talented Mechanical Design Engineer to join our rapidly-expanding Research and Development team in Lymington, Hampshire (commutable from Bournemouth, Southampton, Winchester, Salisbury).

You will be designing, developing and supporting mechanical and product design from concept through full product lifecycle. Specifically, designing electronics packaging for our range of sensors, focused on high-end motorsport and off highway vehicles, including production of full manufacturing documentation

Specific Responsibilities

• Concept design using 3D CAD package for customer assessment
• Generation of proposals for customers at enquiry stage
• Generation of specifications against requirements documents
• Generation of quotations against customer specifications for mechanical aspects of the product design
• Project Engineering
• Design and development of products against agreed specifications
• Discussions and visits with customers
• Selection, evaluation and sourcing appropriate materials.
• Liaison with suppliers of machining, tooling or injection moulding services
• Prototypes build, commissioning and refining the product.
• Preparing a complete design documentation package.
• Preparing a complete manufacturing documentation package.
• Liaison with other members of the design team from various disciplines
• Environmental and ruggedness testing
• Calibration of sensors
• Design of manufacturing jigs and fixtures

Position Requirements

• Demonstrable experience of mechanical or product design preferably in a similar role or industry
• Demonstrable experience of Solidworks or similar 3D CAD package.
• Good understanding of basic mechanical principals
• Demonstrable experience of specifying materials for various environmental applications such as high temperature, IP67, IK08, vibration etc…
• Demonstrable experience of electronics packaging
• A willingness to assist in fabrication of prototypes

Additional advantageous experience:

• Machine shop familiarity.
• Knowledge of position sensing or liquid level sensing.
• Familiarity with the motorsport industry or off highway vehicles.
• COSMOS or other FEA package
• Familiar with ISO9001: 2000
• Electronics manufacturing techniques

Person Specification

• Organised, self-motivated individual with initiative.
• Creative
• Equally at home working as part of a team or on their own.
• Appreciation of a wide variety of engineering and scientific fields
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written
• Must demonstrate a sound knowledge of mechanical engineering principles.

Direct applicants only – agency applications will not be accepted.

The Accelerator Pedal Position Sensor animation is embedded below for your convenience, however please also take a moment to visit the Gill Sensors channel to familiarise yourself with the layout. A full case study write-up will be published here shortly giving further details about the integration of the sensor.

Work has already started on the next in the series of case study videos and tutorials so please check back regularly for updates.

Accelerator Pedal Position Sensor Case Study Animation

Fuel Flow Sensor