Senior System Integration Engineer

Orion Group; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Orion Group Life Sciences is recruiting a Senior System Engineer for a hybrid role based in Cambourne, UK, on a 2-year contract with potential extension. You will define system and hardware requirements, contribute to design, and lead workgroups within multidisciplinary R&D projects.

The role involves collaboration with teams in the US and Israel, working in a matrix organization alongside embedded software, HW and backend/front-end teams, across product and platform initiatives.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in system engineering of multidisciplinary systems.
• Experience with communication products, Embedded, HW, RF systems.
• Ability to understand complex IoT systems and grasp new technical concepts quickly.

Responsibilities

• Define system, HW, embedded, ATE, SW & integration requirements and contribute to design.
• Collaborate with cross-site teams in California, Israel and others in a matrix organization.

Skills

Multidisciplinary systems

Team collaboration

Structured process

Learning and innovation

Education

BSc/MSc Electrical Engineering

Tools

Linux

Atlassian/Azure DevOps

BLE/WiFi/LTE-M/LoRa

Cloud IoT infrastructure

Job description

Orion Group Life Sciences are currently recruiting a Senior System Engineer (Hybrid - at least 2 days in office) on behalf of our Multinational Biopharmaceutical Client based in Cambourne, UK on a 2-year contract with potential to extend.

As Senior System Engineer you will have significant impact on our multi-disciplinary R&D projects, grow with us as we venture into new technologies and will lead work groups in our projects as part of the connected devices line of products during the product lifecycle of both discovery and delivery.

Role Functions:

• The responsibilities will include defining System, HW, Embedded, ATE, SW & Integration requirements as well as contributing to the design stage of each discipline, defining the protocol, technical problem solving, proof of concept and field testing and assisting in tests design and investigations. The work will require collaboration with teams located in California USA and in Israel.
• The position requires multidisciplinary understanding, ability to quickly grasp new technological aspects as well as constraints, the capability to work in a multi-site matrix organization and working closely in a Product and Platform team with other system engineers, embedded software developers, HW engineers, Integration Engineers as well as backend and front-end teams.

Experience, knowledge and skills Skills & Characteristics:

• Ability to focus on what's important.
• Organized and able to work well in a structured process environment
• Strong desire for learning and innovation.
• Excellent team player.

Skills Qualifications, Education Requirements:

• BSC/MSc in Electrical engineering or higher
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in system engineering of multidisciplinary systems
• Experience in working with communication products, Embedded, HW, RF systems
• Problem solver with good personal and teamwork skills.
• Ability to understand complex IoT systems and quickly grasp new technical concepts with focus on challenges ahead and alternative comparison
• Experience of working in complex multidisciplinary projects that requires a high level of technical know-how

Advantage:

• Experience with Linux environment
• Experience in working with Atlassian suite and/or Azure DevOps
• Experience in working with Agentic AI for discovery and innovation
• Experience with RF communication technologies (BLE, WiFi, LTE-M, LoRa, etc)
• Knowledge in backend systems and serverless solutions
• Working with Cloud based infrastructure for IoT devices

People are our business worldwide

Orion Group was founded in 1987 and is now one of the largest, independent, international recruitment companies. We have a network of 200 employees working from 24 offices, delivering a range of services – Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Outsourcing Services, Retained Search, Global Workforce Solutions, Completions & Commissioning and Materials Management – across 68 countries. As a global leader in workforce solutions, we recruit personnel across the Engineering & Technical, Office & Commercial, Scientific and Skilled Trades disciplines, for sectors including Oil & Gas, Life Science, Power & Utilities, Constructions & Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Renewables.