Senior Electronics Engineer: Low-Noise Instrumentation & FPGA

Oxford Instruments GmbH; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Dental insurance

Life assurance

Group pension plan

Share incentive plan

Car salary exchange scheme

TechScheme and CycleScheme

Employee discounts

Job summary

Oxford Instruments is seeking a Senior Electronics Engineer to design the next generation of high-performance analytical instrumentation. You will work in a multidisciplinary R&D team, developing electronics that power electron microscopy solutions with precision and low-noise characteristics.

You’ll design, test and validate advanced electronics, write embedded code and contribute to FPGA development, and collaborate with scientists and engineers to deliver robust products for SEM/TEM

Qualifications

• Strong experience in analogue, digital and power electronics design.
• Expertise in low-noise design and signal integrity for instrumentation.
• Experience with FPGA development and embedded systems.
• Proven ability to design complex multilayer PCBs.
• Hands-on engineer who thrives solving complex technical challenges.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of electronics design solutions across new product development projects.
• Design analogue, digital, and low-noise circuitry for precision detectors and acquisition systems.
• Develop and validate designs through simulation, prototyping, and testing.
• Write embedded code and contribute to FPGA development (VHDL) for high-speed data handling.
• Support transfer to manufacturing and maintain robust documentation.
• Collaborate with physicists, software engineers, and system architects.

Skills

Electronics system design

Low-noise design

Signal integrity

FPGA development

Embedded systems

Multilayer PCB design

Hands-on problem solving

Job description

Oxford Instruments is seeking a Senior Electronics Engineer to design the next generation of high-performance analytical instrumentation. You will work in a multidisciplinary R&D team, developing electronics that power electron microscopy solutions with precision and low-noise characteristics.

You’ll design, test and validate advanced electronics, write embedded code and contribute to FPGA development, and collaborate with scientists and engineers to deliver robust products for SEM/TEM