Job title- Senior Embedded Electronics Engineer R&D
Job Type - Full time
Location - Malvern – UK – Hybrid
Role benefits - Competitive Salary + Benefits Package and more
Become part of making the impossible possible.
About the role:
We’re looking for a Senior Embedded Electronics Engineer to play a key role in developing the embedded hardware and firmware that power our Imaging product portfolio, Morphologi and NanoSight.
In this role, you’ll help shape system architecture, contribute to technical decisions, and support and learn from others as you design electronics and embedded software. Together, we create solutions that enable precision motion control, stable illumination, high-speed capture, and reliable automation within scientifically complex instruments.
Your work will have a meaningful impact on instrument performance, reliability, and ongoing innovation across the Physical Centre of Excellence, helping us deliver technologies that make a difference
What you’ll be doing:
Lead the design and development of embedded electronic systems, from concept through to production release.
Architect, implement, and review embedded firmware in C/C++, ensuring robust, real‑time behaviour and seamless integration with optics and fluidics systems.
Own PCB design, mixed‑signal circuits, sensor/actuator interfaces, and embedded control electronics aligned with product and compliance requirements.
Guide prototype bring‑up, system debugging, and EMC/safety qualification.
Contribute to long‑term technical strategy for Imaging electronics and embedded platforms.
Work closely with cross‑functional partners, software, optics, mechanical, systems, and science, to deliver integrated, production‑ready instrument designs.
Mentor junior engineers, raise engineering standards, and champion best practice in embedded systems within the team.
About you:
Deep experience designing embedded electronics and firmware for complex products.
Strong proficiency in C/C++ for microcontroller or RTOS‑based systems.
Expertise in mixed‑signal design, motion control, high‑speed interfaces, or imaging/illumination electronics.
Strong debugging and prototype bring‑up skills using oscilloscopes, logic analysers, and JTAG/SWD tools.
Experience guiding architectural decisions, reviewing designs, and supporting others’ technical growth.
Ability to think system‑wide, balancing performance, manufacturability, reliability, and compliance.
What’s in It for You:
Be a part of an ambitious, fast-growing, international company with a friendly and inclusive culture
Lead embedded design for innovative instruments used across science and industry.
Shape next‑generation Imaging platforms and influence technical roadmap decisions.
Supportive, collaborative team solving complex scientific and engineering problems
Drive growth within a leading global organisation whose purpose is to work with our customers, to make the world a better place
Be a key member of our team in our amazing offices, with a hybrid working model available
Access to an onsite restaurant
Gym discounts
Volunteering days and much more
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About us - Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics and SciAps.
Together we are a powerful and highly complementary combination of market leading technologies.
We are the toolmakers for the world's most innovative companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories. We are their partners in discovery.
Malvern Panalytical instruments analyze the chemical, physical and structural nature of materials, from proteins to polymers and semiconductors to minerals. Our leading technologies measure particle size, shape, concentration and zeta potential, biomolecular interactions and stability, elemental concentrations and crystallographic structure.
Micromeritics manufactures systems for the characterization of particles, powders, and porous materials for a wide- range of end markets including catalysts, chemicals, building materials, clean-tech and battery. Our leading technologies measure surface area, porosity, density, adsorption and particle activity.
SciAps specializes in portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF), laser-based (LIBS) and near-infrared (NIR) analyzers to measure any element in any environment. SciAps is the Center of Excellence for our handheld instruments.
We have a global footprint with R&D and manufacturing sites in North America, Europe, and Asia.
We are more than 2,500 employees in a customer-focused organization with sales and service offices in 20 countries, all committed to delivering expert and responsive customer support.
We are part of Spectris. Spectris combines precision with purpose, delivering progress for a more sustainable world. Precision is at the heart of what we do – our leading, high-tech instruments and software equip our customers to solve some of their greatest challenges to make the world cleaner, healthier and more productive.
Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics & SciAps
Your Partners in Discovery
Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics and SciAps, part of the Spectris Group, are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can thrive and achieve a fulfilling career. Changing the world isn’t something you can do on your own, or with a single way of thinking; it takes a wide collection of experiences, stories, knowledge, and expertise. We encourage applications from underrepresented individuals and people with diverse backgrounds. Although we always select the most qualified applicant for each role and make all decisions without regard to race, sex, age, or any other protected class, we are an inclusive, equal opportunity organization that prizes diversity. Your unique perspective is important to us.