Senior Product Development Engineer

Investigating and resolving field and manufacturing issues across the sample management product range, taking technical ownership from root cause through to implemented solution

Leading design changes and product improvements, managing the process from concept and feasibility through to design verification and production handover

Working collaboratively with electronics, firmware, software, manufacturing, and quality engineers, acting as the mechanical lead and systems integrator across those disciplines

Contributing to design reviews, risk assessments, and design for manufacturability activities

Supporting the service and applications teams with technical guidance on complex field issues

Identifying and championing longer-term improvement opportunities within the product portfolio

Based in Melbourn, near Cambridge, UK, SPT Labtech creates innovative products that transform how scientists work. For nearly two decades, our multidisciplinary teams of engineers, scientists, and innovators have delivered industry-leading solutions in liquid handling, sample preparation, and sample management, accelerating scientific discovery and improving human health outcomes.

Our strength lies in collaboration: we work closely with our customers to understand real-world lab challenges, creating personalised, cutting-edge tools that truly make a difference

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

You'll ideally be a mechanically-focused engineer with the technical breadth and intellectual curiosity to work fluently across disciplines. You don't need to be an electronics engineer or a software developer — but you should be comfortable reading a schematic, interrogating a sensor integration, or challenging a firmware approach when the system requires it. What matters is genuine mechanical depth combined with the systems thinking to understand how your decisions propagate into other domains.