Contract Electronics Engineer

Job Description

Contract Electronics Engineer - Outside IR35\n £35 - 50/hour\n South Cambridge | Hybrid - 2 days on site\n\n 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.\n\nThis 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.\n \nKey Technical Experience:\n\nSupporting bring-up of a new hardware version\nHands-on debugging of electromechanical systems\nIdentifying and resolving performance gaps from previous designs\nExperience implementing design modifications to improve EMC performance\nExposure to medical device development (ideally FDA-regulated environments)\nProducing design and documentation updates for hardware release\nDFM/DFT updates to existing PCBA designs\nStrong experience using Altium for schematic and layout updatesUnfortunately sponsorship is not available for this role.\n\nKeen to express your interest, or find out more?\n Option 1: Click the apply button (don’t worry, we’ll discuss your CV before submitting)\n Option 2: Drop me a message on LinkedIn (Rachel Bush – SoCode Recruitment)

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Job Overview

ID:

2457736

Date Posted:

Posted 2 hours ago

Expiration Date:

06/07/2026

Location:

Cb1

Salary:

Competitive

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