Product Design Engineer – 50% Homeworking

Salary: £48,000 – £57,600 per year

Role: Product design engineer (automotive parts)

Location: Cambridge

Salary: £48,000 – £57,600+ benefits

Home working: 50% home working and 50% in the office

Sponsorship: my client can sponsor

The job will involve all aspects of designing a product, from developing concepts and prototyping, testing prototypes, working with suppliers to get custom parts, design-for-manufacture, writing assembly instructions for production to follow. We assemble and test our instruments in house, in small to medium sized batches.

The role will involve:

Designing, building and testing prototypes
Working together with a team of software and electrical engineers on complex projects
Generating manufacturing drawings, BOMs, and other documentation for instruments in production quantities
Working with suppliers and manufacturing team to define production procedures, build documentation and appropriate quality control processes
Drawing control

Characteristics and experience that the right person might have:

2 or more years’ experience of product/instrument design, ideally for small to medium volume production (50-1000 units)
A detail-oriented approach to design
Proficiency in CAD software (Solid works ideally, or similar)
Hands on producing and assembling of prototypes and testing them
Ability to work with the team but also solve problems independently
Experience with designing to regulations and standards (EMC, LVD etc) will be an advantage
Experience with computer vision devices design, small electronic devices or robotics would be an advantage

How to apply?

Please send a CV to

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