Mechatronics Engineer
Cambridge Design Partnership
As a Mechatronics Engineer at CDP, you will play a key role in developing innovative products that make a real-world impact. You will work across a wide range of sectors, with a strong focus on medical devices and robotics, contributing to the design and development of complex electromechanical systems from concept through to manufacture.
You will be part of a multidisciplinary team, combining mechanical, electronics, and software engineering to deliver robust, scalable solutions for our clients.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary team developing products for external clients.
- Design and develop electronic hardware for a range of products and applications.
- Contribute across the full product development lifecycle, from concept generation and system architecture through detailed design, prototyping, verification and transfer to manufacture.
- Design and develop integrated electromechanical systems, including sensors, actuators, embedded control systems and mechanisms.
- Develop electronic hardware through schematic capture, circuit simulation, PCB design, bring-up, laboratory testing and debugging.
- Support system integration, debugging and verification of complex prototypes in laboratory environments.
- Collaborate closely with electronics, software and mechanical engineers to deliver cohesive system solutions.
- Manage prototype builds internally and with external suppliers.
- Project manage electronics workstreams within multidisciplinary projects.
- Communicate progress and technical concepts clearly through presentations, reports and client interactions.
- Participate in client meetings and contribute to technical discussions with stakeholders of varying seniority.
- Support project planning, risk identification, technical problem solving and proposal activities.
Requirements
Skills and Attributes
- Highly organized with strong attention to detail
- Electromechanical system design
- Embedded systems and control
- Sensors and actuators
- Mechanism design and integration
- Experience with tools such as MATLAB / Simulink
- Experience working with precision sensors (pressure, flow, optical, etc.)
- Proven ability to design electronic systems from first principles rather than simply integrating off-the-shelf components.
- Strong understanding of analogue and digital electronics, power supplies, signal integrity and hardware debugging.
- Experience with system integration and debugging of complex hardware systems.
- Strong practical engineering skills, including wiring, soldering, prototype assembly and laboratory testing.
- Good understanding of industry-standard communication protocols (SPI, I²C, UART, CAN, USB and Ethernet).
- Methodical approach to troubleshooting and fault finding.
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, multidisciplinary project teams.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to lead technical workstreams and deliver high-quality engineering solutions.
Experience and Education
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Robotics or a related discipline.
- 2-6 years of relevant industry experience.
- Proven experience designing electronic hardware from concept through manufacture including knowledge of Circuit Theory.
- Experience with electrical schematic capture, PCB layout and board bring-up.
- Experience working across hardware, embedded systems and electromechanical product development.
- Experience designing and integrating custom electromechanical systems.
- Experience in medical devices, robotics or similarly complex regulated industries preferred.
- Experience of EMC and Electrical Safety standards (e.g. 60601 or 61010).
- Exposure to the full product development lifecycle, including prototyping, verification and manufacturing transfer.
- Comfortable working directly with clients and supporting technical discussions and project delivery.
Benefits
We’re an employee‑owned innovation partner with a growing US team in Raleigh, NC, part of the Research Triangle. We bring ideas to life-from insight to engineering to pilot manufacture—across consumer and healthcare.