Year in Industry – Electronics/Embedded Software Assistant Engineer

This position reports to: R&D Quality Assurance Specialist/ Office

A 12 month industrial work placement as an electronics and/or embedded software engineer working in analytical instrumentation as part of a product design and development team within a leading global engineering corporation. Candidates must be currently undertaking an undergraduate degree and be able to commence this placement ideally in end July/August, and no later than September 1 2026.

Work model: onsite from our St Neots location.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Working with experienced electronics engineers to design, develop and test analogue and digital electronics solutions to meet required product specifications and agreed timescales.
• Working with experienced embedded software engineers in the design, implementation and validating of embedded software for microcontroller based electronics products, primarily written in C, completed to agreed timescales and specification.
• Supporting maintenance activities, including resolution of end of life component issues and root cause analysis of hardware and software issues.
• Working within a multi-functional team of design engineers on new product development projects and legacy product design enhancements.
• Estimating, planning and documenting own work at all stages of development cycle.
• Complying with the corporate and regulatory standards and systems relevant to the workplace for quality, safe working, ethics and integrity, environment and risk management.

Qualifications for the Role

• Ongoing undergraduate studies in electronic engineering, systems engineering, software engineering (computer science) or other related subject and able to spend at least 12 months in industrial employment.
• Basic knowledge of analogue / digital electronics or basic competency in software design and programming of embedded microcontroller systems (ideally using C).
• Experience using tools such as oscilloscopes & logic analysers – desirable.
• Practical experience in electronics e.g. soldering, prototyping – desirable.
• Experience of other programming e.g. Python, C++, C#, LabView, etc – desirable.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Competitive contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Flexible benefits scheme (Includes options to buy/sell holidays, health checks, dental, eye care, gym memberships, cycle to work, gadget discounts and more)
• Internal mobility opportunities, mentorships & access to projects globally
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Generous employee referral scheme

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