Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Based in Cambridge, makes products that transform the way scientists work. For decades, our expert scientists, engineers and business innovators have provided scientists with world-leading, innovative solutions for liquid handling, sample preparation, and sample management that help accelerate research and make a real difference to human health. We work collaboratively with our customers, building trusted relationships that enable us to deliver exceptional, personalised experiences designed for real-world challenges in the lab.

Want to be part of a team that’s truly making a difference?

You'll join a multidisciplinary R&D team where software, electronics and mechanical engineers sit side by side and designs come together in the lab, not just on paper. Day to day, you will:

Design, develop and maintain embedded software in C++ for ARM Cortex-M series microcontrollers — firmware that ships inside real instruments.

Implement motor and actuator control across open-loop, closed-loop and hybrid schemes, working hand in hand with our electronics team on motor drives and robotic hardware.

Integrate OEM and third-party modules, barcode readers, thermal units, pneumatics and similar — over CAN, Ethernet, UART, SPI, I²C and GPIO, writing the device drivers that connect them into the system.

Shape the firmware and system architecture: module boundaries, interfaces and the communications that tie distributed microcontrollers together.

Contribute to the lower-level, device-facing C# .NET code on the PC side that talks to the embedded layer.

Implement signal acquisition and conditioning for the sensors and transducers fitted throughout each instrument.

Design in reliability from the outset, fault detection, diagnostics, recovery, watchdogs and built-in self-test, because our instruments run unattended in labs where results matter.

Troubleshoot and debug complex embedded software, hardware interfaces and robotics system issues, including on the CAN bus.