Job Description

Contract Electronics Engineer - Outside IR35

£35 - 50/hour

South Cambridge | Hybrid - 2 days on site

Our client is looking for an Electronics Engineer to join their team on an initial contract to support the latest iteration of a medical device platform.

This role centres on supporting the second round of DFM changes ahead of manufacturer handover, covering around 15 PCBs all managed in Altium. The work itself isn’t especially complex, but there’s a fair amount of it - small, detail-heavy updates across layout, schematics, footprints, and libraries, alongside some hands-on debug and EMC-driven design tweaks. You’ll be working closely with mechanical and software engineers inside the instrument, contributing to DFM/DFT improvements and documentation updates to get the next hardware version out the door. Strong Altium experience is important given the volume of changes, and there’s a clear preference for someone on site to make collaboration and problem-solving quicker and more effective.

Key Technical Experience:

Supporting bring-up of a new hardware version

Hands-on debugging of electromechanical systems

Identifying and resolving performance gaps from previous designs

Experience implementing design modifications to improve EMC performance

Exposure to medical device development (ideally FDA-regulated environments)

Producing design and documentation updates for hardware release

DFM/DFT updates to existing PCBA designs

Strong experience using Altium for schematic and layout updatesUnfortunately sponsorship is not available for this role.

Keen to express your interest, or find out more?

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Option 2: Drop me a message on LinkedIn (Rachel Bush – SoCode Recruitment)