R&D Engineer

Do you have experience of electronic engineering across analytical equipment in the scientific industry? Are you looking for a new challenge that will enable you to utilise your skills in a unique and exciting role?

Our client are a longstanding and established company who specialise in analytical equipment for the scientific industry. They have grown significantly over their time in the industry and have worked hard to build a great reputation for themselves in the plant sciences market. They are now looking to recruit an Electronics R&D Engineer to join their team.

Responsibilities will include working as a key part of the R&D team within the company equipment portfolio for both existing and new products. You will look at improvements and corrections of analytical equipment with an electronics focus, this will include working with digital signal processors or DSP, pneumatic parts as well as infra-red optics. Furthermore, you will look to write embedded software and you will be involved in working with both analogue and digital electronics.

To be considered for the role you will ideally hold a relevant academic background in Electronics or Physics. You should have significant experience or working with digital hardware and embedded software ideally within a scientific industry, most particularly plant science/physiology. You will have expertise of working with DSP and A to D converters as well as be familiar with serial interfaces such as I2C, SPI, USB, RS232. Knowledge of pneumatics is also highly beneficial. Experience of working with gas analysis equipment would also be beneficial, although is not mandatory. You should be able to work well as a team and be able to communicate complex engineering ideas with other individuals.

You will be rewarded with a friendly, inclusive working environment, competitive salary and company benefits as well as the opportunity to join a great business at an exciting time.

For more information or to apply, please contact Chris Vinter.

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