Electronics Engineer

Azenta is searching for an Electronics Engineer with strong emphasis on the design and manufacturability of small instruments. The ideal candidate will be flexible to operate in a small team for full cycle product development. Working with a multi-disciplinary team based in Cambridge, UK, you will work to develop products in the life science industry. These products will include Artificial Intelligence, RFID & FPGA components and vision systems for tracking chemical and biological samples.

What You’ll Do

• Schematic capture and board layout to produce multilayer PCB boards with fine pitched components and connectors.
  
  
• Take a product concept, produce specification and implement said specification.
  
  
• Designing and producing boards from prototype to full-scale production with associated SOPs
  
  
• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary group for product design.
  
  
• Be involved with testing efforts such as EMC, RED and other related standards.
  
  
• Work in partnership with buyers, document control and manufacturing to ensure a smooth transition from design to production to customer.
  
  
• Capable of fault-finding including use of tools such as scopes, logic analyzer and other relevant instrumentation.
  
  What You Will Bring
  
  
• BSc or MSc in electrical engineering or equivalent
  
  
• Strong experience in hands-on engineering development capacity
  
  
• Flexibility to approach problems both within and outside core expertise.
  
  
• Knowledge of EDA tools such as KiCAD or Altium.
  
  
• Experience using Python and/or Arduino. Embedded C experience is welcome.
  
  
• Good spoken and written English.
  
  
• Tenacity to identify, resolve and overcome technical issues.
  
  
• Preferably a knowledge of Linux including kernel configuration and/or the willingness to learn.
  
  
• Preferably knowledge of circuit simulation tools.
  
  
• Preferably experience with power supplies and battery charging circuits.
  
  
• Preferably experience with small instrumentation development