Principal Electronics Engineer

Oxford Instruments GmbH


Date: 3 weeks ago
City: High Wycombe
Contract type: Full time
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Principal Electronics Engineer

Date: 2 Oct 2025

Location:

High Wycombe, GB

Job Function: Technical

Business Unit: NanoAnalysis

Materials Analysis is an Oxford Instruments Business Unit that manages our Electron Microscopy and Mechanical Microscopy products, Atomic Force Microscopes, Raman Microscopes and Benchtop NMR Products. We are part of the wider Oxford Instruments Group that also includes Andor Technology, NanoScience, Plasma Technology and X-Ray Technology. With a sixty-year history, and fourteen Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, our world-class products and technologies are helping our customers to address the greatest challenges of the 21st century.

We are looking for a Principal Electronics Engineer to join our New Production Development Team. Your focus will be the design and delivery of electronics solutions for our Materials Analysis products.

This role is ideal if…

  • You are recognised as an expert within your organisation both within and beyond your own function
  • You demonstrate mastery in principles, theory and techniques within a specialised field and can communicate the principles beyond your own function
  • You lead large projects / initiatives that impact the business on a domestic or international scale
  • You develop and determine the methods of work for a project, operating with no supervision in a complex environment
  • You solve unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business

Location:

We are based in High Wycombe (Cressex) and have hybrid working, this typically looks like 3 days in-office and 2 days in your home office. We have a 37-hour working week with flex on starting times, and 12:30 Friday finishes.

Working at Oxford Instruments Materials Analysis - What’s in it for you?

Wellbeing

  • Annual leave: 25 days plus bank holidays and the option to purchase up to 12 weeks more
  • Employee Assistance Programme; including 24/7 telephone support, access to counselling, financial and debt management and access to trained legal advisors
  • Private health insurance, dental insurance and life assurance

Money & lifestyle –

  • MyDiscounts; save money with a number of leading retailers
  • Car salary exchange scheme: sacrifice part of your salary in exchange for a fully serviced, comprehensive insured electric or hybrid vehicle
  • TechScheme and CycleScheme: Purchase a bike and/or Tech or home goods from Currys/IKEA and spread the cost over 12 months.
  • Pension; all employees are eligible to join the Group Pension Plan administered by AVIVA.
  • Share incentive plan: Invest in your future and share in the success of the company by joining the share incentive plan.

Development –

  • Encouragement and support to achieve professional and or academic qualifications to support your development and growth
  • Defined career paths and regular reviews

Role And Responsibilities

  • Take responsibility for technical solutions within specific electronics development projects, working flexibly within a multidisciplinary team to deliver the product. Set up and participate in design reviews and keep thorough design and implementation records
  • Provide “go to” expertise on electronics issues for the wider technology team. Mentor colleagues to develop their skills in using electronics tools and methodologies. Input to the architectural design process
  • Design and execute tests to validate systems solutions at appropriate points throughout the product development lifecycle. Ensure new products are transferred adequately to manufacturing and customer support, ensuring appropriate documentation is in place
  • Provide support for existing products and ongoing support for new products as needed. Including managing engineering changes using official ECR/ECO/BP procedures in our PLM tool
  • Plan, estimate, prioritise and manage own work and work closely with other team members to achieve integrated solutions consistent with project milestones
  • Recommend new tools and techniques that will continue to improve product quality and the development process
  • Maintain an understanding of the concepts, techniques and requirements of your role. Keep up with trends in your field as well as your specific job area and maintain a good working knowledge of this organisation
  • Operate at all times in accordance with health & safety at work legislation
  • Travel to the USA (Santa Barbara) to work occasionally. Ideally this will be for a four week period to support onboarding and follow up sessions of 2 weeks or so on several occasions. The time periods are not fixed and will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate.

Equal Opportunities And Reasonable Adjustments

Oxford Instruments is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Oxford Instruments is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment. Please get in touch if you require any reasonable adjustments within the interview process.

If you would like to learn more about the role, or have any questions before applying please contact [email protected]

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