Electronic Engineering Consultant (Medical Devices)

Location: Cambridge, England, United Kingdom; based at the hirify.global Campus in Melbourn.

Company

Employee-owned technology and product development consultancy creating and manufacturing innovative products across healthcare, life science, energy, communications, and engineering-led industries.

What you will do

• Lead and contribute to technically ambitious, commercially valuable projects.
• Apply electronic engineering across the innovation lifecycle, from early feasibility and concept development to working prototype and product launch.
• Develop wearable and implantable medical devices for biosensing and neurotechnology applications.
• Engage directly with clients to shape strategy, build partnerships, and deliver high-impact outcomes.
• Contribute to the biosensing and neurotechnology community and help shape industry direction.
• Address challenges including performance and power trade-offs in biosensor interfaces and development of deep brain stimulation systems under demanding timelines.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of industry experience as an electronic engineer, with a strong academic background.
• Ability to apply technical expertise, first principles, and knowledge from one domain to unfamiliar domains using analytical reasoning and structured approaches.
• Ability to design complex electronic systems, including schematics and PCB layouts for analogue, digital, and power circuitry in embedded systems.
• Experience with high-speed digital designs and low-noise analogue front ends.
• Multidisciplinary mindset, including understanding how system-level factors affect electronic design and mitigating those factors.
• Exposure to a regulated environment such as medical devices, automotive, or aerospace products.
• Strong commercial acumen and understanding of the commercial aspects of product development.
• Methodical record-keeping and documentation of work.
• Experience leading projects and work packages with informal authority, mentoring and guiding others, and energising people around an idea or solution.

Culture & Benefits

• Agile, entrepreneurial environment with shared ideas, technical collaboration, and freedom to work independently.
• Annual profit-related bonus and virtual shares in the long-term success of the group.
• Employer pension contribution of 10% of salary, private medical insurance for employees and dependants, and life insurance worth six times salary.
• 25 days of holiday, enhanced parental leave, and flexible return-to-work support.
• Free onsite lunch, electric car leasing, cycle-to-work scheme, and interest-free season travel ticket loan.
• Local sports facilities and theatre discounts and memberships, plus comprehensive relocation support if applicable.