Senior Mechatronics Engineer

Permanent, Full Time, onsite in Melbourn, UK

Cell therapies are already changing what’s possible for patients, including people facing cancers and other diseases that once had few options. The next challenge is access. To help more patients, manufacturing has to become more reliable, more repeatable, and easier to scale. At Cellular Origins, we’re building that shift, and as a Senior Integration Engineer, you’ll be one of the people who makes it real, bringing complex subsystems together until the whole platform behaves as one.

Cellular Origins is enabling scalable, cost-effective and efficient manufacture of cell and gene therapies. Our robotic automation approach is designed to reduce hands-on labour, remove avoidable human error, and increase consistency, so more therapies can be made with confidence, at greater scale.

About the role

This is a hands-on role at the heart of product delivery. You’ll help develop and integrate the hardware and software that make up Constellation, our automated manufacturing system, and you’ll play a key part in informing subsystem design and delivering a reliable system.

What you’ll do

You’ll do hands-on work within a multi-disciplinary product team to bring our system to life and ensure its performance.

You’ll get to:

• Bring hardware and software subsystems together in a robust and reliable way across the entire product development lifecycle, from early prototypes through to production releases
• Develop software for controlling mechatronic systems and monitoring their performance
• Plan and run integration tests and experiments, then turn results into clear conclusions and practical next steps
• Troubleshoot complex mechatronic systems, finding root causes and feeding insights back into design
• Write strong technical documentation, including experiment protocols and reports
• Work closely with engineers across robotics, software, hardware, and systems, in a fast-paced environment
• Steer our product and processes to ensure quality and facilitate a smooth handover to product verification

About you

You’ll thrive here if you like making complex systems work in the real world, not just on paper. You’ll enjoy being the person who spots what doesn’t line up between subsystems, works through the ambiguity, and leaves things clearer and better than you found them.

You’ll bring:

• Proven experience developing, integrating and troubleshooting complex mechatronic systems in an industrial R&D context
• A track record of solving the hardest multidisciplinary problems through structured root cause analysis and using your understanding to guide design teams
• Experience developing software for hardware-focused applications
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language, preferably Python
• Strong technical analysis and documentation skills, including writing experiment protocols, processing results, and reporting findings
• Confident communication and collaboration skills, that make you comfortable working across disciplines and balancing priorities
• A Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Engineering, Physics, or a related discipline

Desirable experience that will help you hit the ground running:

• Industrial, networked communication protocols such as MQTT
• Robotic hardware and prototyping software such as ROS
• Strong Python skills, including object-oriented programming and design patterns
• Familiarity with electrical and/or mechanical design tools and processes

Benefits

Cellular Origins is based on the TTP Campus, within purpose-built sustainable offices, labs and green surroundings, 10 miles south of Cambridge. Our working culture encourages entrepreneurship, shared ideas and collaboration, while providing you the freedom to do your best work.

Our employee benefits include:

• Annual bonus
• 25 days holiday
• Employer pension contribution of 10% of salary
• Free lunch and all-day refreshments
• Private medical insurance for employees and dependants
• Enhanced family friendly leave
• Life insurance worth 6x salary
• Electric car leasing scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Activities and community that supports healthy activities that bring colleagues together; whether it’s lunchtime squash or football, Zumba or our own rock band. Colleagues initiate new clubs and outings whenever they feel there’s something missing!
• Local sports facilities and theatre discounts and memberships.

Ready to make your mark?

If you want to be the person who brings the pieces together, and you like the idea that your work can help more patients access life-changing therapies, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now and tell us what you’ve integrated, what you learned when it went wrong, and what you’re excited to build next at Cellular Origins.