Test Engineer

Awerian Ltd; Melbourn; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading biotechnology firm in the UK is seeking a Test Engineer to join their Product Delivery team. You will work with a multidisciplinary team to ensure the performance and reliability of robotic systems used in manufacturing cell and gene therapies. Responsibilities include system integration, creating test plans, and managing documentation. A strong engineering background and experience with electromechanical systems are essential. This full-time on-site role offers a chance to significantly contribute to innovative manufacturing solutions.

Benefits

Annual bonus

25 days holiday

10% employer pension contribution

Free lunch and refreshments

Private medical insurance

Enhanced family friendly leave

Life insurance worth 6x salary

Electric car leasing scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loan

Community activities and sports

Qualifications

• Experience with testing and troubleshooting complex electromechanical systems.
• Strong technical analysis and document generation skills.
• Ability to work effectively in interdisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with engineers and scientists on product delivery.
• Ensure robotic systems meet performance and reliability standards.
• Create test plans and evaluate performance of robotic systems.

Skills

Technical analysis

Troubleshooting electromechanical systems

Robot integration

Programming with Python

Communication

Documentation and reporting

Education

Strong engineering background

Tools

Industrial robotic systems

Robotic software frameworks (ROS)

Job description

• Technical Discipline: Science or Engineering

Company Description

Cell therapies have been shown to cure devastating and previously untreatable diseases like cancer by re-programming the patient's own immune system. Giving more patients access to these life-saving therapies requires a revolution in manufacturing and process automation.

Cellular Origins , a TTP company, is enabling scalable, cost-effective and efficient manufacture of cell and gene therapies. Our technology addresses the challenges associated with manufacturing at scale with an elegant robotic manufacturing automation solution that reduces cost and labour, eliminates human error, and increases efficiency.

Job Description

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

As a Test 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 ensure our robotic systems meet the highest standards of performance, reliability, and compliance.

Working together with design teams, you will initially be focused on integration of our mobile robots with their associated workstations, creating test plans, running procedures, and evaluating performance to ensure smooth and reliable operation. Your experience working with industrial robots will help you to diagnose faults, provide feedback to the design team and recommend solutions. Reliability testing will form a key part of this phase to ensure our system withstands the rigors of real-world application.

In the longer term, you will transition to more formal verification of robot functions, generating protocols, managing changes, maintaining traceability, overseeing tests 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

• A strong engineering background with a focus on hardware, systems or computer science, gained either by degree or vocational route.
• Proven experience of testing and troubleshooting complex electromechanical systems, preferably within a product development environment.
• Robust technical analysis and documentation skills including generating Test Protocols and Test Reports.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in interdisciplinary teams and fast-paced environments.
• This role will be a full time on-site position at our campus in Melbourn.
• A solid understanding of robot integration, control systems, and testing methodologies.
• Familiar with modern programming languages such as Python and robotic software frameworks (ROS).
• Experience working with industrial robotic systems.

Additional Information

Cellular Origins is based on the TTP Campus, within purpose-built sustainable offices, labs and green surroundings, 10 miles south of Cambridge.Our working culture encourages entrepreneurship, shared ideas and collaboration, while providing you the freedom to do your best work.

Our employee benefits include:

• Annual bonus
• 25 days holiday
• Employer pension contribution of 10% of salary
• Free lunch and all-day refreshments
• Private medical insurance for employees and dependants
• Enhanced family friendly leave
• Life insurance worth 6x salary
• Electric car leasing scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Activities and community that supports healthy activities that bring colleagues together; whether it’s lunchtime squash or football, Zumba or our own rock band. Colleagues initiate new clubs and outings whenever they feel there’s something missing!