Contract Production Electronics Engineer

SoCode; Town Of Cambridge; On-site; AUD 139,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

SoCode is seeking a Contract Production Electronics Engineer in Cambridge (office-based 4 days on site) to lead engineering changes and tester procedures for both new and legacy products. The role focuses on failure analysis, reliability work, and supporting production-line testers deployed at overseas sites.

The candidate combines hands-on hardware know-how with strong communication in English and experience in a matrixed global organisation.

Qualifications

• Several years in a similar production-support or manufacturing engineering role.
• Solid understanding of how production-line testers are designed and maintained.
• Strong grounding in electronic design across analogue, digital and radio.
• Working knowledge of PCB/PCBA design and assembly, batteries, RF, IR, and ATE-based testing.
• Confident communicator in English, written and verbal, including reporting to management.
• Used to working in a matrixed, cross-cultural, global organisation.
• Genuinely hands-on with hardware, embedded interfaces, networking and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering change and tester procedures for new and legacy products.
• Own failure analysis and reliability work.
• Support production-line teams as they deploy testers on manufacturing sites abroad.

Skills

Production engineering

Testers design

Electronic design (analogue, digital,

Tools

LabVIEW

Job description

Contract Production Electronics Engineer

Contract Production Electronics Engineer
Cambridge: Office-based (4 days on site)
Contract: 12 Months, Inside IR35
Rate: Flexible

Like being the technical authority production floors around the world call on when something breaks? We're working with a business scaling an advanced connected hardware product into production. They need a Production Engineer to lead engineering change and tester procedures for new and legacy products, own failure analysis and reliability work, and support production-line teams as they deploy testers on manufacturing sites abroad.

What You'll Bring

• Several years in a similar production-support or manufacturing engineering role
• Solid understanding of how production-line testers are designed and maintained
• Strong grounding in electronic design across analogue, digital and radio
• Working knowledge of PCB/PCBA design and assembly, batteries, RF, IR, and ATE-based testing
• Confident communicator in English, written and verbal, including reporting to management
• Used to working in a matrixed, cross-cultural, global organisation
• Genuinely hands-on with hardware, embedded interfaces, networking and debugging

Also Valued

• Familiarity with SQA processes and LabVIEW
• Background with RF or other connected/smart product technology
• Some exposure to manufacturing databases or production data pipelines
• Experience coordinating with subcontractors and manufacturing partners on tester or prototype parts

If you thrive on solving production-floor problems that actually matter, and want ownership over how testers get deployed at scale, get in touch.