Electronics Engineer
stemcell · UK - Cambridge · United Kingdom · On-site
Pay: GBP 36,800 – 49,800 a year
Posted Sep 1, 2026
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Job Description Summary
As a global leader in life sciences research support, STEMCELL Technologies is looking for an Electronics Engineer to join our Instrumentation UK engineering team. In this role, you will play a key role in supporting the continued manufacture, performance and evolution of our innovative cell sorting instruments, while also contributing to the development of our next generation of instrumentation. As an Electronics Engineer, your initial priority will be sustaining engineering for our existing cell sorting platform, investigating technical and manufacturing issues, implementing design improvements, and supporting the product throughout its lifecycle. Alongside this, you will contribute to the design, development and transfer to manufacture of next-generation instrumentation as our product portfolio evolves.
Job Description
Duties and Responsibilities
Support ongoing product improvement and lead or support electronics-related quality investigations through problem investigation, root-cause analysis, design change, verification, and implementation into manufacture
Own and deliver sustaining engineering activities including management of component obsolescence, substitutions, supplier support, product lifetime improvements and cost reductions
Contribute to new product design, development and transfer to manufacture, including prototype builds, design verification, engineering documentation and design transfer
Design, simulate and test analogue and digital electronics within complex scientific instrumentation, including low-noise optical front-ends, ADCs, FPGAs, photodetectors, precise motor control and embedded processors
Integrate board-level communication interfaces including I2C, SPI, Ethernet, USB and NFC
Collaborate with software teams to support board bring-up using embedded C/C++ or VHDL/Verilog
Develop schematics and multi-layer, mixed-signal PCB layouts in Altium Designer, ensuring strict control over signal integrity, grounding, and EMC
Ensure new designs and engineering changes consider applicable safety, EMC and regulatory requirements, including standards such as IEC 61010, IEC 61326 and EN 301 489
Knowledge and Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related discipline, with 2–6 years of relevant engineering experience (or an equivalent combination of education and experience)
Practical experience designing, simulating, and troubleshooting analogue and digital electronic systems incorporating power supplies, ADCs, motor/fan controllers, sensors, and interfaces (I2C, SPI, SMBus, Ethernet, USB)
Proficiency in schematic capture and multi-layer mixed-signal PCB layout, with circuit simulation experience being desirable
Hands-on experience using laboratory equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analysers, multimeters, VNAs) for bench testing, fault finding and board bring-up
Proven ability to perform root-cause analysis…