Senior System Architect - Mechanics, Software, Electronics ID39793

ZipRecruiter; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm seeks a Senior System Architect to lead the design of a cutting-edge precision hardware platform. This role offers the unique opportunity to integrate mechanical, optical, software, and electronic systems into a cohesive product. You will define the technical vision and roadmap, making impactful decisions that shape the future of the technology. If you're a systems thinker with a passion for clarity and structure in complex designs, this is your chance to drive a transformative project in a fast-evolving industry.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading system architecture for complex hardware products.
• Ability to work across mechanical, optical, software, and electronics domains.

Responsibilities

• Architecting ultra-precise multi-domain measurement systems.
• Defining technical vision and guiding cross-functional teams.

Skills

System Architecture

Mechanical Engineering

Optical Engineering

Firmware Development

Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Master's Degree in Engineering

Job description

Job Description

What happens when you bring together ultra-fine mechanical movement, high-speed optics, real-time software, and razor-sharp electronics — and try to make them behave like one coherent, perfectly balanced system?

That’s the puzzle.

That’s the platform.

That’s the job.

We're looking for a Senior System Architect to sit at the centre of a technically wild, cross-disciplinary product — a precision hardware platform used in one of the most advanced and fast-evolving industries on the planet.

This isn’t architecture in the “draw a block diagram” sense. This is steering the whole machine — defining how every subsystem connects, performs, and evolves.

What You’ll Be Driving

• Architecting the next of an ultra-precise, multi-domain measurement system.
• Translating mechanical, optical, software, and electronics inputs into one elegant, integrated design.
• Setting the technical vision and roadmap — not just for what works now, but what’s possible next.
• Leading the way on trade-offs, interfaces, tolerances, and performance limits — and helping teams make the right calls early.
• Acting as a cross-functional unifier between R&D, applications, and engineering — guiding what gets built and how.
• Embedding clarity and structure into a complex product — through documentation, interface control, and systemic thinking.

Why This Role?

Because there are very few places where:

• You get to work across all four engineering domains — mechanics, optics, code, and circuits.
• The stakes are high, the tech is real, and your decisions have product-wide impact.
• You’re not just a cog in a machine — you’re the person defining how the machine works.

This is a role for the systems thinker. The integrator. The architect who can zoom out to see the whole, but who still knows what goes wrong when a cable bends wrong or a latency slips past tolerance.

️ What You Bring

• You’ve led or owned system architecture in a complex hardware product — maybe instrumentation, robotics, aerospace, or semiconductor tools.
• You speak the of mechanical precision, optical alignment, firmware behaviour, and analog noise, even if you’re not coding or building.
• You know how to work across disciplines — and how to align passionate experts behind a single, smart system.
• You’ve got roadmap vision, performance intuition, and a love of clarity in documentation and design.

Curious?

We don’t expect a perfect match — we’re looking for interesting, interested, and architectural at heart. Let’s talk.