Job Brief

As the Development Engineer of Hardware/Firmware, you will design and develop components and systems that create better blasting solutions.

Who We Are

Innovation is core to DetNet’s business. The fundamental driving force behind DetNet’s creativity is to conceptualize new and innovative approaches to turn ground-breaking ideas into very real mining and blast enhancing technologies. With more than 15 years’ experience, DetNet has changed the face of electronic initiation as we set the standard through uncompromised safety and quality engineering. Learn more about our company: www.detnet.com.

THIS ROLE WILL BE EMPLOYED THROUGH THE DYNO NOBEL JOINT-VENTURE DETNET. This is NOT a Dyno Nobel position

Dyno Nobel is pleased to support the job advertising and recruitment search process for DetNet, our valued business partner. Dyno Nobel is a global leader in the commercial explosives industry. We provide innovative blasting solutions and quality explosives products throughout North America, Australia and selected customers in the Asia Pacific. Dyno Nobel is pleased to support the job advertising and recruitment search process for DetNet, our valued business partner. Dyno Nobel is a global leader in the commercial explosives industry. We provide innovative blasting solutions and quality explosives products throughout North America, Australia and selected customers in the Asia Pacific.

What You’ll Do

As the Development Engineer of Hardware/Firmware, you will develop/integrate/interface with the various components that comprise our product suite to generate better blasting solutions. This includes blasting control equipment and detonators. You will design and develop systems and solutions to meet the increasing demand for technologies that improve blasting outcomes in our drive towards automated technologies.

Other duties will include:

• Design, develop and qualify products and sub-components according to system specifications and user requirements.
• Schematic capture and PCB design
• Data pack and hardware documentation, including version and configuration control.
• Design and qualify products to various international regulatory bodies standards, such as CE, IEC, FCC, ICASA.
• Integration and testing of various designed subcomponents.
• Design (or contribute toward) testing equipment for various products and subcomponents.
• Embedded software development in C.
• Keep abreast of global developments in new technologies and embedded firmware to provide direction with regard to software development.
• Idea/patent/IP generation through innovation and technological development.
• Provide engineering support to production, qualifications, marketing, and operations teams.

What We’re Looking For:

• B.Eng (electronics) / Bsc Engineering (Electronics) or equivalent.

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience with analogue and digital circuit design.
• Altium Designer, Mentor or similar PCB design software skills.
• Experience on electromagnetic compatibility testing and certification advantageous.
• Knowledge of electronic communication networks, such as CAN, NFC, SPI, I2C, Ethernet, RS485 or similar beneficial.
• Knowledge of impedance control, EMC design, signal and power integrity and RF design beneficial.
• Knowledge of any safety and risk reduction standards such as SIL and RTCA is beneficial.
• Measuring and testing experience with various types of equipment such as oscilloscopes or spectrum analysers beneficial.
• Embedded C programming language skills preferential.
• Basic knowledge of Linux beneficial.
• Digital design skills with Verilog/VHDL and FPGAs/ CPLDs beneficial.
• Knowledge of system engineering principles, design, testing, documentation processes advantageous.
• Strong mathematical and analytical skills.
• Ability to write technical reports, user requirement specifications, technical data sheets, test plans and reports, and validation plans.
• Experience in Software Development a plus.

This is a DetNet position.

As an equal opportunity employer DetNet is committed to diversity in our workforce. M/F/D/V+