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About the role
- Engineering Manager overseeing electronics design and development at SPT Labtech in Cambridge. Leading a high-performing team in laboratory automation and system integration.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team
- Own technical authority across electronics, motion control, and low-level system integration
- Collaborate closely with software and mechanical teams
- Establish and improve engineering processes, design reviews, documentation standards, and verification approaches
- Manage small and medium projects as needed
- Act as the authority for electronics design and motion control
- Define and maintain architecture for electronics and control systems
- Take a system-level view of design decisions
- Lead motion-control strategy
- Provide strong technical input on embedded system design
- Engage with manufacturing, quality, and service teams to ensure robust product introduction and sustained field performance
Requirements
- Degree in Electronics Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, or a related discipline
- Experience managing or technically leading an engineering team, or have the desire to step into a management position
- Strong hands-on background in electronics design (analogue, digital, power, sensing, comms)
- Substantial experience with motion control in electromechanical or automation systems, including system-level motion architecture and integration with software
- Experience applying control-theory principles to real-world electromechanical systems (feedback, stability, system response, practical tuning)
- Deep experience with microcontrollers (e.g., ARM/Cortex-M or similar), including selection, hardware integration, and collaboration on embedded firmware development
- Demonstrable capability in designing and integrating complex electromechanical control systems
- Skilled in practical debugging using scopes, logic analysers, JTAG tools, and diagnostic techniques
- Experience in laboratory automation, scientific instruments, robotics, industrial automation, or similar motion-intensive domains is highly advantageous
- Ability to set technical direction, make informed architectural decisions, and clearly communicate trade-offs
- Proven ability to improve engineering processes and elevate team capability
- Experience delivering hardware-based products through a structured development lifecycle in a quality-driven environment (ISO 9001, ISO 13485, or similar)
Benefits
- Private medical insurance
- Generous pension plan
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