System Engineer

Company: Morgan McKinley
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Location: Cambridge
Job Description:

Systems Engineer

Contract duration: 11 months

Location: Cambridge, UK 5 days onsite

Responsibilities:

– Set up, configure and test prototype devices, audio equipment and motion capture systems.

– Manage and maintain device networks, including setup and configuration of switches and related infrastructure.

– Perform multimodal data collections using these complex capture systems in controlled laboratory environments.

– Debug and resolve problems ranging from localized issues to those spanning entire systems.

– Contribute to hardware and software system improvements to improve efficiency of data collections.

Minimum Requirements:

– 2+ years of industry experience working with systems composed of hardware, firmware, and software

– 2+ years of experience with Python, scripting, networking, and Linux administration

– Experience with systems integration, testing, and automated validation

– Prototype & Hardware (Critical)

– Hands-on experience handling, setting up, configuring, and testing prototype-level devices — this is non-negotiable

– Comfortable working with audio equipment, capture systems, or similar specialist hardware

– Experience debugging and resolving issues across both hardware and software

Posted: April 12th, 2026