Senior Mechatronics Engineer

Lightcastdiscovery; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Lightcast seeks a Senior Mechatronics Engineer to lead system design and engineering activities for cutting-edge benchtop instruments. The role emphasizes delivering complex mechatronic products across hardware, firmware and control interfaces with a focus on performance, reliability and manufacturability.

Ideal candidates will combine hands-on debugging with strong end-to-end development experience, working with development and manufacturing teams to iterate and improve product designs.

Qualifications

• Strong technical track record designing complex mechatronic products for function, reliability, manufacture, serviceability and cost.
• Hands-on and analytical approach to debugging complex systems, problem solving and resolution ownership.
• End-to-end development experience in mechatronic and electronic systems with cross‑functional collaboration with development and manufacturing teams.

Responsibilities

• Take a leading role in system design and engineering activities.
• Drive design and debugging across hardware, firmware and control interfaces.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to engineer and improve product designs.

Skills

Mechatronics design

Electronics

Firmware

Control systems

Job description

At Lightcast we are enabling scientists to gain a deeper understanding of human health and disease at the cellular level.Our technology enables the direct, precise interrogation of single cell heterogeneity, interactions and functional behaviours with a level of flexibility and scale that was previously inaccessible. Across a broad range of disciplines from basic and translational research to drug discovery, we provide the freedom to accelerate discovery and apply novel biological insights.

At Lightcast we are enabling scientists to gain a deeper understanding of human health and disease at the cellular level. Our technology enables the direct, precise interrogation of single cell heterogeneity, interactions and functional behaviours with a level of flexibility and scale that was previously inaccessible. Across a broad range of disciplines from basic and translational research to drug discovery, we provide the freedom to accelerate discovery and apply novel biological insights.

The Lightcast platform is a benchtop laboratory instrument that uses microfluidics to allow precise and highly flexible control of thousands of aqueous microdroplets using software-generated light patterns. Control systems enable the integrated optical, mechanical, and fluidic sub-systems to perform complex workflows and assays used in the search for drug candidates.

We are seeking a Senior Mechatronics Engineer to join our team and take a leading role in system design and engineering activities. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience delivering complex systems within a product business through a background in Electronics, Mechatronics or Mechanical Engineering, with an emphasis on designing and debugging systems at the intersection of hardware, firmware and control. You will have:

• A strong technical track record in designing complex mechatronic products for function, reliability, manufacture, serviceability and cost
• Hands-on and analytical approach to debugging complex systems, problem solving and resolution ownership
• Full end-to-end development experience in mechatronic and electronic systems, having worked with development and manufacturing teams to engineer and improve product designs