Graduate Electronics Engineer

targetjobs UK; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel to client sites

Job summary

Sagentia is seeking a graduate Electronics Engineer to join our Harston, Cambridge team. You will contribute to hardware development across medical, industrial, consumer, and food sectors, from concept through validation, within a dynamic, innovation-driven environment.

You will work in multidisciplinary teams on projects ranging from quick prototypes to full product developments, gaining exposure to real-world client engagements and a broad range of technologies in a fast-paced consultancy

Qualifications

• Degree in a relevant field (First/2.1, or PhD) in EEE or similar.
• Strong understanding of analogue and digital electronics fundamentals.
• Enthusiasm to work within multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to electronics design, circuit design and simulation.
• Assist with debugging, testing and validation across projects.
• Collaborate in a team to deliver hardware solutions for diverse sectors.
• Attend client meetings and contribute to design reviews.

Skills

Analogue & digital electronics

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

Degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering or related

Tools

LTSPICE (SPICE)

Embedded C/C++

Job description

Description

Sagentia provides leading-edge product development services focused on science and technology initiatives. We work across the medical, industrial, consumer, and food and beverage sectors with a range of clients encompassing both leading brands and start-up disruptors.

Description

Sagentia provides leading-edge product development services focused on science and technology initiatives. We work across the medical, industrial, consumer, and food and beverage sectors with a range of clients encompassing both leading brands and start-up disruptors.

Our breadth of expertise brings together the best people to solve technical challenges, and can include scientists, human factors engineers, innovation strategists, product developers, designers, and consumer insight specialists.

Our team has been involved in several successful electromechanical system development projects including the rapidly manufactured ventilator system for the UK government, advanced agricultural machinery, surgical robotics, novel drink dispensing technology, and a next-generation radiotherapy system.

Innovation is a key driver across our development projects, resulting in cutting-edge, elegant, and creative solutions that improve people’s lives and the world we live in.

The opportunity

Do you want to work with teams of people who push the boundaries of technology innovation? Are you an enthusiastic and curious graduate who loves solving complex challenges using electronics? Would you relish the opportunity to apply these skills to product development challenges across diverse industries?

This is an exciting opportunity to work with a fantastic team of colleagues while developing your technical skills across the product development lifecycle, from new concept generation through to technology validation.

We Have

• Projects ranging from quick build proof-of-principle prototypes through to full product developments.
• The opportunity to work with a wide range of clients ranging from start-up to blue-chip companies while developing your hardware design skills.
• A multitude of exciting projects in the medical, industrial, consumer, and food and beverage sectors.

You Have

• A degree (First or 2.1, or even a PhD) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Combined Science with Electronics or similar.
• A solid understanding of analogue and digital electronics fundamentals.
• Enthusiasm to work within multidisciplinary teams.

You Might Also Have (but Not Essential)

• Wireless/IoT technologies experience.
• Simulation experience using SPICE simulators, such as LTSPICE.
• Capability in actuator and sensor interfacing electronics design.
• Experience developing embedded C/C++ applications for microprocessor platforms.

A day in the life

You will be based at our Sagentia offices in Harston, Cambridge and there may also be opportunities to travel to client sites in Europe or the USA. You will enjoy a fast-paced environment working within a team who solve a variety of challenges from different industries, and you will be expected to stretch yourself and demonstrate ambition, determination, and focus.

At any one time we have dozens of active projects in the medical, industrial, consumer and food and beverage sectors. As a Graduate, you will have the opportunity to use and improve your electronics design skills on one or more projects simultaneously across these sectors. Projects range in length from a couple of months to several years, and will typically require multidisciplinary skills requiring teamwork, independent research, software design, mechanical design, and of course an electronics team that you will be part of. You will enjoy a variety of tasks such as attending daily stand-ups, concept generation, circuit design and simulation, debug and test as well as attending client meetings.

Career development

You will work on client projects from your first day; this provides you with the opportunity to work with a fantastic team of colleagues and put your technical skills to use immediately. We work with you from the start of your time with us to ensure we understand how you want to develop your career in the future, whether it be a technical or commercial role.

For the first year, we expect you to participate and contribute to the successful delivery of many different client projects, which will increase your experience exponentially and provide you with a firm understanding of how we work in a consultancy setting. During this time, you will be paired with a mentor who will help you settle in, provide continual support, identify training opportunities, and inspire you in how we work at Sagentia. All our employees have the opportunity to progress and develop within the business, there is no career ceiling for those who demonstrate commitment, hard work, and determination.

Sagentia will provide opportunities for training and career advancement whether you want to apply your technical skills to fantastic projects, find solutions to problems no one else can solve, deepen and broaden your technical knowledge, manage complex projects or get involved in business development.

Benefits

You will be offered a competitive salary and benefits package.

About Sagentia

Sagentia is a leading global science, technology, and regulatory consultancy. We excel in research and development, regulatory and safety services, and technical programme delivery.

Combining deep technical and scientific expertise with specialist industry knowledge, Sagentia’s consulting teams deliver best-in-class results against complex briefs.

Our culture is innovation-rich and outcomes-focused.