Location: Onsite - Cambridge Granta Park CB21 6AL (limited hybrid working)
Job Type: Full Time - Permanent
Salary Range: £45 – 55k
Functional Area: R&D - Physics and Engineering
Reports to: Group Leader – Instrumentation Design
Who are we? Sphere Fluidics is an established Life Science company which provides instruments and specialist consumables for the global pharmaceutical and academic research community. Built upon our Picodroplet microfluidic technology, we aim to ease the journey to discovery for single cell analysis and isolation.
What’s our vision? To be the droplet microfluidic technology company for single cell analysis.
What’s our mission? To find, analyse and isolate the most valuable cells with ease and speed.
What’s our culture? We prioritize a culture that fosters care, collaboration, and self-expression. We believe in continuous learning and improvement and hold ourselves accountable for maintaining integrity at all times. It is our priority to build an inclusive environment that supports growth and empowers our employees to achieve their full potential and role model our employee values:

• We value and care for our people
• We innovate to create our future
• We collaborate and win together as a team

What you’ll do
You will work in a multi-disciplinary team, delivering top-quality designs for our unique, life-science platforms. These combine complex microfluidic, optical, and mechanical assemblies along with reagents and bioassays to implement our Picodroplet technology and enable our customers to develop novel therapies in areas such as cancer and immune diseases. You should be enthusiastic with excellent team-working and communication skills. You will need to be flexible and self-motivated with a desire to succeed, whatever the challenge.
Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop designs from concept through prototype to manufacture
• Use your technical knowledge to create electrical and electronics design solutions to challenging requirements, in particular:
• Data and signal processing on FPGAs and microprocessors (Verilog and C++)
• High-speed circuit design
• Control algorithms
• High-voltage signal generation
• Produce schematics, PCB layouts up to 6-layer, embedded low-level code and technical documentation
• Source components for development and liaise with suppliers
• Participate in design reviews

What we’re looking for
Skills and Experience

• A degree level qualification in Physics, Engineering or equivalent
• Comprehensive Electronic CAD experience, Altium preferred
• Experience of complex product development in a high technology industry
• Familiarity with low-level communication protocols (RS485, SPI, I²C, UART, CAN)
• Hands-on ability to build, test and troubleshoot
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills

Advantageous

• Experience of:
• Instrument or laboratory equipment design
• Engineering support throughout an entire product lifecycle
• Design for EMC and other regulatory requirements
• Component selection for long-term availability

Personal Attributes

• Highly self-motivated, with a drive towards continual improvement both individually and for the organization
• Able to conduct technical communication fluently
• Accurate with details and documentation
• A keen eye for fault-finding
• A team player, looking out for others and motivated by success for everyone

The Benefits

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Employee Share Options (EMI Scheme)
• Company pension scheme with Aviva (employer contributes 8%)
• 4x Life Insurance & Critical Illness Cover
• Private Medical Insurance with Vitality
• Health Cash Plan
• Group Income Protection
• Employee Assistance Program
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Learning & Development opportunities for career growth
• Long Service Bonus – up to 5 extra days holiday
• Recruitment referral scheme (£1,000)
• Flexible working hours to support work-life balance

What’s Next? We will review your application and whilst we would love to get back to every applicant, it is not always possible. If you haven’t heard from us within 4 weeks, please note that your application has not been successful on this occasion.
Sphere Fluidics strives to be an equal opportunities employer. Our policy is to recruit a diverse workforce and follow the guidelines of the Equality Act.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £45,000.00-£55,000.00 per year
Benefits:

• Bereavement leave
• Casual dress
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee stock ownership plan
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Enhanced paternity leave
• Free parking
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Private medical insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

• Have you developed designs from concept through prototype to manufacture?
• Do you have experience in complex product development in a high technology industry?
• Do you have comprehensive electronic CAD experience?
• Do you have familiarity with low-level communication protocols? (e.g. RS485, SPI, I2C, UART, CAN)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Location:

• Cambridge (preferred)

Work Location: In person