Test & Development Engineer

Cellular Origins; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

25 days holiday

Employer pension contribution 10%

Private medical insurance for you and/

Subsidised lunches

Enhanced family friendly leave

Life insurance worth 6x salary

Electric car leasing scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loan

Job summary

Cellular Origins invites a Test and Development Engineer to join our team at Melbourn Science Park, near Cambridge. You will work with a multidisciplinary team to develop, integrate, and verify our Constellation system, ensuring performance, reliability, and compliance.

In this role you’ll create test strategies, run procedures, diagnose faults, and contribute to formal verification and release. Your hands-on experience with mechatronics and robotics will help drive design improvements and

Qualifications

• A strong engineering background gained either by degree or vocational route.
• Proven experience of testing and verification, and troubleshooting complex mechatronics systems.
• Robust technical analysis and documentation skills including generating Test Protocols and Test Reports.
• Capable of applying statistical and data analysis, simulation, and engineering modelling techniques to evaluate product performance, predict behaviour, and generate actionable insights that drive design improvement.
• Ability to identify failure modes, conduct structured root cause investigations, and implement data-driven corrective actions to improve product reliability and robustness.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in interdisciplinary teams and fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and integrate system elements, creating test strategies, plans and protocols, running procedures and evaluating performance.
• Diagnose faults and provide feedback to the design team to drive improvements.
• Move toward formal verification of system elements, generating protocols and maintaining traceability.
• Oversee verification activities and write reports to ensure successful system release.
• Work in a technically challenging, impact-driven venture with a collaborative team.

Skills

Engineering fundamentals

Testing & verification

Data analysis

Root cause analysis

Documentation & reporting

Team collaboration

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Tools

ROS

Python

Automation systems

Job description

Cellular Origins

Cell therapies have been shown to cure devastating diseases like cancer by reprogramming a patient’s own immune system, offering hope where there was none before. Giving more patients access to these life-saving therapies requires a revolution in manufacturing and process automation.

Company Description

Cellular Origins is leading this revolution. Our proprietary technology tackles the challenges of large-scale production with an elegant robotic automation system that cuts costs, reduces labour, eliminates human error, and boosts efficiency.

Job Description

This is a great opportunity to join our team and play a key role in shaping the future of the Cellular Origins’ Constellation system.

As a Test and Development Engineer, you’ll sit at the heart of product delivery, working closely with a multidisciplinary team of engineers and scientists to bring our vision to life through development, integration, and rigorous testing. You’ll help to ensure our robots and automated systems meet the highest standards of performance, reliability, and compliance.

Working together with design teams, you will initially be focused on development and integration of our system elements, creating test strategies, plans and protocols running procedures, and evaluating performance to ensure functionality, performance and reliable operation. Your experience working with mechatronics systems will help you to diagnose faults, provide feedback to the design team and recommend solutions.

In the longer term, you will transition to more formal verification of our system elements, generating protocols, managing changes, maintaining traceability, overseeing verification activities and writing reports. Your attention to detail and strong documentation will make you key to successful system verification and release.

This is somewhere to really make your mark, working in a technically challenging and impact-driven venture, with bright and committed peers, to define the future of cell therapy manufacturing.

Qualifications

Essential

• A strong engineering background gained either by degree or vocational route.
• Proven experience of testing and other means of verification, and troubleshooting complex mechatronics systems, preferably within a product development environment.
• Robust technical analysis and documentation skills including generating Test Protocols and Test Reports.
• Capable of applying statistical and data analysis, simulation, and engineering modelling techniques to evaluate product performance, predict behaviour, and generate actionable insights that drive design improvement.
• Ability to identify failure modes, conduct structured root cause investigations, and implement data-driven corrective actions to improve product reliability and robustness.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in interdisciplinary teams and fast-paced environments.

Desirable

• A solid understanding of robotic automation system and robot integration, control systems, and testing methodologies.
• Familiar with modern programming languages such as Python and robotic software frameworks (ROS).
• Experience working within development of robotic automation systems and robots.

Additional Information

Cellular Origins is based at Melbourn Science Park, just 10 miles south of Cambridge. Our newly renovated premises offer modern office, laboratory and engineering spaces, surrounded by green spaces. We foster an entrepreneurial and collaborative culture, where ideas are encouraged, innovation thrives, and everyone has the freedom to do their best work.

Our employee benefits include:

• Annual bonus
• 25 days holiday
• Employer pension contribution of 10% of salary
• Private medical insurance for employees and dependants
• Subsidised lunches
• Enhanced family friendly leave
• Life insurance worth 6x salary
• Electric car leasing scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan