Medical Technology Jobs

• Cambridge
• £60,000 – £65,000 pa
• Senior

Hands-on role designing custom electronic circuit boards from customer requirements, covering schematic capture, PCB layout, board bring-up, verification and test. You'll liaise with clients on integration and commissioning, write technical reports, and work across IoT, medical device and robotics projects in a consultancy team.

Altium Designer · C · C++ +4

• Cambridge
• £80,000 – £100,000 pa
• Lead · manages people

Lead electronics design and development for a Cambridge R&D company building state-of-the-art medical devices. You'll act as technical figurehead, running a small team, overseeing product development from concept to manufacture, and liaising with customers and senior stakeholders. Requires strong analogue/digital design, embedded C/C++, and prior technical lead or mentoring experience.

• Leicester
• £40,000 – £50,000 pa
• Mid-level

Designs electrical control and safety systems for bespoke automated machinery, producing EPLAN schematics, control panel designs and bills of materials, and ensuring CE compliance. The role spans the full project lifecycle, from risk assessments and panel build supervision to commissioning, fault-finding and customer technical support, working with PLCs and industrial robots.

EPLAN · PLC · Omron +7

• Oxford
• On-site
• Senior
• Permanent

Lead the design, development and verification of analogue, digital and mixed-signal electronic subsystems for medical devices, from concept through to manufacturing handover. Work includes schematic and PCB layout (ideally Altium), EMC pre-compliance and safety testing to IEC 60601 and ISO 14971, plus mentoring junior engineers and supporting transfer to manufacturing.

Altium Designer

• Oxford
• On-site
• £80,000 – £120,000 pa
• Lead
• Permanent

Hands-on technical leadership role owning the architecture and delivery of high-throughput FPGA subsystems for next-generation medical device technology. You drive designs across the full lifecycle, from requirements through RTL implementation, custom-ASIC bring-up, lab validation and product release, while mentoring mid/senior hardware engineers and championing CI/CD automation.

AMD · Xilinx · Vivado +2

• Glasgow
• Hybrid
• £60 – £75 ph
• Senior
• Contract

Design, develop and test electronic systems and components, covering circuit design, schematic capture, PCB layout, troubleshooting, design reviews and project documentation. Works with cross-functional teams on robust, compliant solutions, with analogue, power supply, EMC and Altium skills; medical devices experience is desirable.

Altium

• Cambridge
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• £50 – £65 ph
• Senior
• Contract

Embedded contractor role within an established medical technology company's electronics team, supporting complex designs from requirements and schematic capture through design reviews, PCBA layout, board bring-up and system test. Requires broad electronics design experience with depth in areas such as embedded microprocessors, motor drives, FPGA, analogue sensors or high-speed communications, using Altium Designer and DFx/EMC principles.

Altium Designer

• United Kingdom
• £50,000 – £65,000 pa
• Senior

Designs and develops electromechanical systems and components for advanced medical devices, working across mechanical design, electronics and embedded firmware. Involves integrating hardware and software, improving automation, testing and troubleshooting, and supporting products from concept through to manufacture within a regulated quality environment.

Altium · SolidWorks · CAD

• Cambridge

Hands-on role designing and integrating optical systems into complex medical devices, from early feasibility through to product launch. You'll work in a multidisciplinary team spanning simulation, prototyping, testing and refinement, with a strong emphasis on regulatory compliance and real-world usability, and mentor junior colleagues.

• Cambridge
• On-site
• £40,000 – £50,000 pa
• Mid-level

Hands-on electronics design role at a product development consultancy, owning hardware at system and circuit level from concept through prototyping, debug, verification and into production for medical and healthcare clients. Work spans medium and high-volume manufacture in well-equipped labs, with peer review across disciplines and a new technical challenge every few months.

Altium

• Oxford
• On-site
• Lead
• Permanent

Technical lead for electronics design across current and next-generation medical device products, combining hands-on design with mentoring junior engineers. Defines electronic architecture, reviews schematics and PCB layouts, and oversees verification and validation including EMC and safety testing to IEC 60601, IEC 62304 and ISO 14971 standards. Works closely with suppliers, manufacturing partners, and cross-functional quality and regulatory teams on-site in Oxford.

IEC 60601 · IEC 62304 · ISO 14971

• Cambridge
• Hybrid
• £35,000 – £45,000 pa
• Mid-level

Develops FPGA and embedded firmware for high-performance data acquisition and signal processing systems used in biomedical research products. Writes VHDL for FPGA functionality and C for low-level hardware control, integrating and debugging digital electronics across the full product lifecycle alongside hardware and software engineers.

AMD/Xilinx Vivado · Intel Quartus · USB +1

• Warwick
• On-site
• £30,000 – £40,000 pa

Hands-on role building, modifying and testing electronic circuits and prototypes, including precision soldering and PCB rework with small surface mount components. Supports engineers with product development and testing, reviews PCB designs in electronics CAD software, and maintains lab equipment while working alongside electronics, mechanical and software engineers.

Electronics CAD

• Manchester
• £48,000 – £57,000 pa
• Mid-level

Designs analogue and digital electronics for scientific instrumentation, owning specifications, schematics, PCB layouts and PLD/FPGA configurations across the full product life cycle. Works closely with suppliers, fitters and test engineers, building and evaluating prototypes to ISO61010, ISO13485 and 21CFR820 standards, with Cadstar, HV design and Xilinx MicroBlaze firmware as advantageous skills.

Cadstar · Xilinx MicroBlaze · PLD +2

• Cambridge
• Mid-level

Design and develop mechanical components for genomics instrumentation, working within a multidisciplinary team of physicists, electronics engineers, software developers and life sciences specialists. The role spans the full product lifecycle from concept and prototyping through to design for manufacture and launch, ideally within medical devices, diagnostics or scientific instrumentation and regulated environments such as ISO 13485 and FDA QSR.