Senior Electronics Engineer

Company: Oxford instruments
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Location: High Wycombe
Job Description:

Overview

In this Senior Electronics Engineer role, you will design high-performance electronics for electron microscopy systems, focusing on precision, low-noise signal integrity, and reliability. You will work in a multidisciplinary R&D team to develop, test, and validate analogue, digital, and embedded electronics that enable advanced detectors and data acquisition. You’ll contribute to FPGA work, embedded software, and handover to manufacturing, shaping the next generation of nanoscale analysis tools. This is a hands-on role with a clear impact on performance and product delivery.

Pay / Benefits

  • 25 days annual leave
  • private health insurance
  • dental insurance
  • life assurance
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • pension plan

Responsibilities

  • Own electronics design solutions across new product development projects
  • Design analogue, digital, and low-noise circuitry for precision detectors and acquisition systems
  • Develop and validate designs through simulation, prototyping, and rigorous testing
  • Write embedded code and contribute to FPGA development (VHDL) for high-speed data handling
  • Support transfer to manufacturing and maintain robust documentation
  • Collaborate with physicists, software engineers, and system architects

Key requirements

  • Strong experience in electronics system design (analogue, digital, power)
  • Expertise in low-noise design and signal integrity in instrumentation or sensing
  • Experience with FPGA development and embedded systems
  • Proven ability to design complex multilayer PCBs
  • Hands-on engineer with strong problem-solving能力
  • Collaborative mindset
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to communicate across disciplines
  • Analogue and digital electronics
  • Low-noise design and signal integrity
  • FPGA development and embedded systems

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Posted: October 1st, 2026