Senior Systems Engineer — Precision Instrumentation

PerkinElmer; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

PerkinElmer is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer — Material Characterization in High Wycombe, UK. You will shape system design and architecture for advanced analytical platforms, translating customer needs into verifiable requirements and guiding verification and testing.

You’ll lead investigations, improve product quality, and mentor engineers within cross‑functional teams. Ideal candidates bring a physics or engineering degree with experience in precision instrumentation, plus data analysis

Qualifications

• Essential: Degree in Physics or engineering; experience in high-precision electro-mechanical or scientific instrumentation.
• Preferred: postgraduate engineering/physical science qualification; familiarity with optics, control systems or signal processing.

Responsibilities

• System design and architecture for new products and major platform changes; perform modelling across subsystems.
• Develop high‑level requirements from customer needs and decompose into verifiable specs.
• Define verification strategy; conduct experiments and analyze data to support decisions.
• Lead root cause investigations and drive remedial actions with manufacturing/service.
• Collaborate in multi-disciplinary teams; mentor junior engineers on testing and interpretation.

Skills

Data analysis

Report writing

Project planning

Risk assessment

Mentoring

Education

Degree in Physics or Engineering

Postgraduate qualification in engineering or physical science

Tools

FMEA training

Modeling software

Job description

PerkinElmer is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer — Material Characterization in High Wycombe, UK. You will shape system design and architecture for advanced analytical platforms, translating customer needs into verifiable requirements and guiding verification and testing.

You’ll lead investigations, improve product quality, and mentor engineers within cross‑functional teams. Ideal candidates bring a physics or engineering degree with experience in precision instrumentation, plus data analysis