About this role
<p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway';color:windowtext">Materials Analysis is an Oxford Instruments Business Unit that manages our Electron Microscopy and Mechanical Microscopy products, Atomic Force Microscopes, Raman Microscopes and Benchtop NMR Products. We are part of the wider Oxford Instruments Group that also includes Andor Technology, Plasma Technology and X-Ray Technology. With a sixty-year history, and fourteen Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, our world-class products and technologies are helping our customers to address the greatest challenges of the 21st century.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway';color:windowtext">At Oxford Instruments, we enable the world’s leading scientists and engineers to explore materials at the nanoscale. Within our NanoAnalysis business, our systems power <strong>electron microscopy techniques</strong> such as SEM and TEM—unlocking elemental and structural insights across industries from semiconductor development to clean energy.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway';color:windowtext">Now, we’re looking for a <strong>Senior Electronics Engineer</strong> to help design the next generation of high-performance analytical instrumentation.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway';color:windowtext"> </span></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway';color:windowtext">The opportunity</span></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway';color:windowtext"> </span></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway';color:windowtext">You’ll play a key role in developing sophisticated electronics that sit at the heart of our electron microscopy solutions—where <strong>precision, signal integrity, and low-noise design are mission-critical</strong>.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway';color:windowtext">Working in a multidisciplinary R&D team, you’ll design, test, and deliver advanced electronics systems that directly impact how our customers visualise and analyse the microscopic world.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway';color:windowtext">What you’ll do</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="disc"> <li style="color:windowtext;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway'">Take ownership of <strong>electronics design solutions</strong> across new product development projects </span></li> <li style="color:windowtext;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway'">Design <strong>analogue, digital, and low-noise circuitry</strong> supporting precision detectors and acquisition systems </span></li> <li style="color:windowtext;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway'">Develop and validate designs through simulation, prototyping, and rigorous testing </span></li> <li style="color:windowtext;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway'">Write embedded code and contribute to FPGA development (VHDL) for high-speed data handling </span></li> <li style="color:windowtext;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway'">Support transfer to manufacturing and ensure robust, maintainable documentation </span></li> <li style="color:windowtext;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway'">Collaborate closely with physicists, software engineers, and system architects</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway';color:windowtext">What we’re looking for</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="disc"> <li style="color:windowtext;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway'">Strong experience in <strong>electronics system design</strong> (analogue, digital, power) </span></li> <li style="color:windowtext;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway'">Expertise in <strong>low-noise design and signal integrity</strong>—ideally in instrumentation or sensing applications </span></li> <li style="color:windowtext;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway'">Experience with <strong>FPGA development and embedded systems</strong> </span></li> <li style="color:windowtext;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway'">Proven ability to design <strong>complex multilayer PCBs</strong> </span></li> <li style="color:windowtext;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway'">A hands-on engineer who thrives solving complex technical challenges</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway';color:windowtext"> </span></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway';color:windowtext">Why join us?</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway'">Annual leave: 25 days plus bank holidays and the option to purchase up to 12 weeks more</span></li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway'">Employee Assistance Programme; including 24/7 telephone support, access to counselling, financial and debt management and access to trained legal advisors</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 6.0pt 0.0px;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway'">Private health insurance, dental insurance and life assurance </span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 6.0pt;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway'">Money & lifestyle – </span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway'">MyDiscounts; save money with a number of leading retailers</span></li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway'">Car salary exchange scheme: sacrifice part of your salary in exchange for a fully serviced, comprehensive insured electric or hybrid vehicle </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway'">TechScheme and CycleScheme: Purchase a bike and/or Tech or home goods from Currys/IKEA and spread the cost over 12 months.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway'">Pension; all employees are eligible to join the Group Pension Plan administered by AVIVA.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 6.0pt 0.0px;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway'">Share incentive plan: Invest in your future and share in the success of the company by joining the share incentive plan. </span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 6.0pt;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway'">Development – </span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway'">Encouragement and support to achieve professional and or academic qualifications to support your development and growth</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 6.0pt 0.0px;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway'">Defined career paths and regular reviews </span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway';color:windowtext">Recruitment process:</span></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway';color:windowtext">Successful candidates will be invited to an initial call, to learn more about the opportunity, with the next step being an interview with the hiring manager, usually this takes place via Teams. We have a 2 stage process, with the final interview taking place onsite, at our High Wycombe headquarters. If you’d like to learn more before apply, please reach out to [email protected]</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Oxford Raleway';color:windowtext">#LI-AG1</span></p>