Lead Electronic Engineer Consultant - Surgical Systems

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual profit‑related bonus

Virtual shares

Employer pension contribution

Private medical insurance

Life insurance

25 days holiday

Parental leave

Electric car leasing

Cycle‑to‑work

Season ticket loan

Discounts

Job summary

TTP is seeking a highly experienced Electronics Architect to lead the design, verification and transfer to manufacture of advanced surgical electronic systems. You will mentor teams and work with multidisciplinary clients to drive robust, compliant products from concept to market-ready solutions.

Based at our Melbourn site near Cambridge, you’ll own technical direction, communicate clearly with stakeholders and contribute to business development through technically compelling proposals.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in electronic engineering within product development, ideally medical devices or regulated sectors.
• Ability to design complex electronics schematics and PCB layouts for analogue, digital and power circuitry and embedded systems.
• Strong project management skills with requirements gathering, planning and milestone delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead electronic engineering activity across the full product lifecycle from concept to manufacture transfer.
• Translate client and clinical needs into practical engineering requirements and viable technical solutions.
• Lead projects or workstreams, balance technical risk, cost, speed, quality and regulatory considerations.
• Act as a trusted technical authority defining system architectures and communicating complex topics.
• Review scope and provide guidance to strengthen technical quality and design rigour.
• Support business development with technical and commercial insights for proposals.
• Mentor engineers and build high-performing project teams.

Skills

Electronic engineering

Surgical devices

PCB design

C/C++ (embedded)

Regulatory awareness

Project leadership

Job description

Lead Electronic Engineer Consultant - Surgical Systems

• Full-time
• Role Type: Experienced
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Technical Discipline: Science or Engineering
• Department: Health Tech

TTP is an employee-owned technology and product development consultancy, with a 40-year track record of helping ambitious clients solve complex technical challenges to bring innovative, commercially successful solutions to market.

We invent, design, and manufacture impactful products and technologies across a wide range of industries – including healthcare, life science, energy, and communications – and at the intersection of biology, physical science and engineering.

Our working culture encourages entrepreneurship, shared ideas and technical collaboration, while providing you with the freedom to do your best work. With our bigger-picture thinking and consultative approach, our multidisciplinary expertise enhances patient outcomes, improves lives, and delivers measurable value for our client’s creative ideas.

We are seeking a highly experienced Electronic Engineer Consultant to join a high-calibre team of consultants, developing advanced surgical devices from early concept through to market readiness. This is a hands‑on, technically challenging role for an Electronics Architect who would mentor others, combining deep electronics expertise with consultancy skills, commercial awareness and the drive to deliver robust, high‑quality products in a regulated environment.

As an Electronics Architect, you will work closely with our multidisciplinary teams, clients and stakeholders, you will lead projects and contribute to the design, development, verification and transfer to manufacture of complex electronic systems for surgical technology applications. You will be expected to understand the broader product, clinical and commercial context, bringing clarity to ambiguous technical challenges and helping teams move efficiently from idea to market‑ready solution.

Key responsibilities:

Lead electronic engineering activity across the full product lifecycle, from concept generation and feasibility through detailed design iterations, verification, validation and transfer to manufacture.

Translate client, clinical and user needs into practical engineering requirements and commercially viable technical solutions which feed into sophisticated surgical medical technologies that improve patient outcomes.

Lead small and medium sized projects, and/or workstreams within larger programmes. Take ownership of, and deliver, electronics work packages – balancing technical risk, cost, speed, quality and regulatory considerations.

Act as a trusted technical authority on projects, defining system architectures, identifying key interaction points between subsystems and communicating complex engineering topics clearly to internal teams, external clients and stakeholders.

Review scope of projects and provide practical insight and guidance to other Consultants to strengthen technical quality, delivery confidence and design rigour.

Support business development and proposal activity, participating in sales meetings and providing technical and commercial insight to help shape compelling, accurately costed proposals for single‑phase programmes and end‑to‑end developments.

Mentor less experienced engineers and help build collaborative, high‑performing project teams.

Minimum 10 years’ experience in electronic engineering within product development, ideally within medical devices, surgical systems or another highly regulated sector.

Able to design complex electronics schematics and PCB layouts for analogue, digital and power circuitry for embedded systems, including high‑speed digital designs.

Proven ability to take complex products or systems from concept through development and transfer‑to‑manufacture.

Strong project management capability, including requirements gathering, planning, prioritisation, stakeholder communication and delivery against milestones.

Commercial acumen, with the ability to make sound engineering decisions that consider product value, manufacturability, cost, risk and client needs.

Collaborative, proactive and driven, with a strong sense of ownership and the ability to thrive in fast‑moving multidisciplinary teams.

It would be beneficial, but not essential to bring an awareness of electronic system design, including digital electronics, embedded systems and FPGA development and experience with C and C++ in embedded or hardware‑adjacent development environments.

You will also be:

Intellectually curious and eager to explore new perspectives.

Strategically focused yet responsive and adaptive in execution.

Commercially minded – able to spot opportunities, shape proposals, and win follow‑on work.

A confident, clear, and empathetic communicator who builds trust with clients and colleagues alike.

An empowering leader who coaches others to grow.

Willing to travel for in‑person meetings and client engagements.

TTP operates from an award‑winning campus in green surroundings in Melbourn, just south of Cambridge.

We offer a generous benefits package including:

Annual profit‑related bonus

Virtual shares that reward you with a stake in TTP Group’s long‑term success

Employer pension contribution of 10% of salary

Private medical insurance for employees and dependants

Life insurance worth 6 x salary

25 days holiday

Enhanced parental leave and flexible return‑to‑work support

Electric car leasing and cycle‑to‑work schemes

Interest‑free season ticket loan

Local sports facilities and theatre discounts and memberships