Latest Life Sciences Jobs

Optical Systems Engineer

This role involves designing, developing, integrating, and validating complex optical and photonic systems. You will work in a multidisciplinary team, collaborating with experts across various engineering disciplines, and handle a mix of optical design, systems engineering, and customer interaction.

Redline Group Torquay, Devon, TQ1 1TR, United Kingdom £60,000 – £75,000 pa

Technical Facilities Manager

This role involves managing critical engineering infrastructure and building services for a high-tech manufacturing site, including clean rooms, HVAC, electrical, and life safety systems. The Technical Facilities Manager will lead maintenance programmes, ensure compliance with UK health and safety regulations, oversee contractors, and support continuous improvement within a complex operational environment. Collaboration with engineering, operations, and safety teams is essential to maintain operational resilience and support manufacturing and research activities.

Hays Construction and Property Bristol, Bristol (county), United Kingdom £48,000 – £60,000 pa

Cleanroom Mechanical Assembly Technician

This role involves assembling and testing UHV manipulation and sample handling sub-assemblies in a cleanroom environment. Responsibilities include precision hand assembly, wiring, pre-testing, and maintaining quality control records. The position supports the transition of new hardware from NPI to production and requires familiarity with UHV-compatible devices and precision engineering.

Recruitment South East Hailsham, East Sussex, BN27 1BW, United Kingdom

Quality Inspector

This role involves hands-on inspection and testing of precision-engineered components and assemblies using advanced metrology equipment. You will work closely with engineers to maintain high quality standards, identify non-conformances, and support continuous improvement initiatives in a state-of-the-art manufacturing environment.

Vacgen Lower Dicker, East Sussex, BN27 4BD, United Kingdom

Graduate Electronics Engineer

This role involves contributing to the development of advanced electronic systems, including implementing signal and data-processing algorithms in VHDL, designing PCBs with FPGAs and high-speed interfaces, and developing test firmware and embedded software. The position is ideal for recent graduates or PhD candidates with a strong academic background in electronics, physics, or computer science.

Platform Recruitment Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom £45,000 – £55,000 pa

Principal Process Engineer - Metal-Oxide PVD

This role involves leading the development, qualification, and sustaining of metal-oxide PVD processes for semiconductor manufacturing. You will manage a small team, drive process improvements, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality film stacks and equipment performance.

Pragmatic Semiconductor Durham, DH7 8RJ, United Kingdom

Research Fellow in Advanced Semiconductor Device Modelling

This role involves advanced semiconductor device modelling and simulation, focusing on source-gated transistors (SGTs) and multimodal transistors (MMTs). The researcher will develop and validate predictive models using TCAD, compact modelling, and AI-assisted techniques, working closely with experimental teams and contributing to high-quality research outputs.

University of Surrey Guildford, South East England, United Kingdom £38 – £46 pa

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Multiskilled Maintenance Technician

This role involves providing electrical maintenance support in a high-tech semiconductor manufacturing environment, focusing on fault diagnosis, planned and reactive repairs, and equipment reliability. You'll work with motor control systems, variable speed drives, and electrical distribution, using CMMS for maintenance tracking and contributing to continuous improvement. The position offers a four-day week and a clear path to becoming a multi-disciplined technician within a growing, safety-conscious team.

Theo James Recruitment Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, United Kingdom £45,000 pa

Electronics Design Engineer

This role involves working in a dynamic R&D team to design and develop sophisticated electronics systems for scientific instrumentation. Responsibilities include creating specifications, schematics, PCB layouts, and FPGA configurations, as well as building and testing prototypes to industry standards.

VRS Recruitment Trafford Park, M17 1PB, United Kingdom £48,000 – £57,000 pa

On-site Permanent

Electronic FPGA Engineer

This role involves designing, developing, and validating FPGA solutions for optical networking products. You will work on advanced FPGA-based designs, implement VHDL logic, and collaborate with electronics and software engineers to resolve complex technical challenges.

Huber+Suhner Polatis Milton, Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Production Engineer

This role involves working at the intersection of design and manufacturing, turning engineering concepts into producible products. Responsibilities include supporting new product introduction, designing vacuum chambers and fixtures, developing manufacturing routes, and driving continuous improvements in quality and efficiency.

Vacgen Lower Dicker, East Sussex, BN27 4BD, United Kingdom

Lead RTL Designer (PPA Experience)

Lead RTL Designer responsible for driving PPA-optimized datapath design in high-performance AI accelerator chips. The role involves deep microarchitectural trade-off analysis, timing-closure iteration, and close collaboration with physical design and verification teams. Work spans from RTL creation to synthesis and STA feedback, targeting cutting-edge inference hardware for large-scale AI models.

Fractile United Kingdom

Electronics Design Engineer (Senior)

The role involves designing and developing sophisticated electronic systems for advanced scientific instrumentation, working closely with a multidisciplinary team throughout the product lifecycle from initial specifications to volume manufacture. Responsibilities include creating schematics, PCB layouts, and technical documentation, as well as supporting products through testing and field operation.

Winsearch Manchester, United Kingdom £50,000 – £57,000 pa

Fpga Design Engineer

This role involves FPGA firmware design and development using VHDL and Verilog, working with FPGA development toolchains like Xilinx Vivado or Intel Quartus, and contributing to system architecture and technical design. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams on varied projects from proof-of-concept to deployed solutions.

Lynx Recruitment Melbourn, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom £50,000 – £90,000 pa

Assembly & Test Technician

The role involves precision electro-mechanical assembly and automated testing of safety-critical energetic devices such as detonators and safety arming units. The candidate will work within a highly regulated production environment, following strict quality and safety procedures while building and testing components to exacting standards. The position offers opportunities for skill development and career progression within production engineering.

Teledyne FLIR Lincoln, United Kingdom

On-site Permanent Clearance Required