Electronics Engineer
Full time, onsite, Melbourn, Cambridgeshire
Cell therapies are changing how we treat some of the most devastating diseases, by using a patient’s own cells as the treatment. To bring these therapies to many more people, manufacturing must change too, becoming far more scalable, reliable and efficient. At Cellular Origins you’ll help build the robotic manufacturing technology that makes that possible, so more patients can access life-changing treatments sooner.
As an Electronics Engineer, you’ll join the team developing the electronic heart of our automation platform, turning concepts into robust products that can run in demanding bioprocess environments. You’ll collaborate closely with mechanical, software and biology experts, shaping a system that connects proven bioprocess tools into a scalable, automated factory for cell therapies.
Job DescriptionWhat You’ll Do
You’ll get to:
- Develop analogue and digital electronics for our core platform, from concept and architecture through schematic capture, layout and bring-up.
- Design and support embedded systems that control motors, sensors and other hardware within our robotic automation environment.
- Work closely with engineers and scientists across disciplines, translating their needs into clear electronics requirements and turning those into practical designs.
- Own debugging of prototype and production hardware, using oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analysers and other tools to get to the root cause quickly.
- Support and occasionally design custom test equipment to accelerate internal testing and development
- Design custom equipment to support end of line test and commissioning for our electronics.
- Contribute to design for manufacture, test and reliability, helping us move from prototypes to scalable production of boards.
- Bring a pragmatic, can-do mindset to resolving issues and improving our electronics platform over time.
Depending on your experience, you may also:
- Explore and validate designs through electronics simulation, for example active analogue filters, and compare simulated and real-world performance.
- Design low-noise analogue front ends for sensor instrumentation.
- Work on flex or rigid-flex PCB designs where space and routing are constrained.
- Apply EMC-compliant and electrical safety design practices, as well as support testing and diagnosis.
- Integrate industrial protocols and PLC interfaces, such as EtherCAT or IO-Link, into our systems.
- Design and refine power electronics, including DC/DC converters for a range of voltage and current requirements.
About You
You enjoy seeing your designs working in real systems, not just on paper. You are comfortable owning a design end to end, and you like working with people from different backgrounds to solve practical problems.
You’ll bring:
- Strong experience with embedded systems and the electronics that support them.
- Extensive experience of analogue and digital electronics design, including schematic capture and layout, ideally using Altium and related collaboration tools.
- Confidence working directly with hardware such as prototype boards, motors and sensors.
- Ability to solder surface-mount components for rapid prototyping.
- The ability to debug embedded systems independently using oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analysers and similar tools.
- Strong skills in interpreting component datasheets and schematics, and turning them into reliable, manufacturable designs.
You’ll enjoy working in an environment that is both entrepreneurial and collaborative, where you can influence how things are built and see the impact of your work in a mission with real meaning for patients
Additional InformationBenefits
Cellular Origins is based on the TTP Campus, within purpose-built sustainable offices, labs and green surroundings, 10 miles south of Cambridge. Our working culture encourages entrepreneurship, shared ideas and collaboration, while providing you the freedom to do your best work.
Our employee benefits include:
- Annual bonus
- 25 days holiday
- Employer pension contribution of 10% of salary
- Free lunch and all-day refreshments
- Private medical insurance for employees and dependants
- Enhanced family friendly leave
- Life insurance worth 6x salary
- Electric car leasing scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Activities and community that supports healthy activities that bring colleagues together; whether it’s lunchtime squash or football, Zumba or our own rock band. Colleagues initiate new clubs and outings whenever they feel there’s something missing!
- Local sports facilities and theatre discounts and memberships.
How to Apply
If you’d like to use your electronics expertise to help reshape how cell therapies are manufactured and bring vital treatments to more patients, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now and the hiring team will review your application and respond to every candidate.
Top Skills
What We Do
At TTP we work with start-ups through to big corporates, across multiple sectors, to solve challenging problems steeped in technology. By combing passion and flexibility with a deep expertise in science, engineering, and design, we help our clients unlock opportunities and make brilliant things happen.
We’re independent, we’re free-thinkers and we’re agile to the core, and for over 35 years it’s helped us find better solutions faster – time and time again. We take a multidisciplinary approach, and our teams are set up around the project needs, which means we can tackle your problem holistically from the start. What’s more, we’ll be on your side and work with you as one team, and we’ll want the project to succeed as much as you do.
