Systems Engineer
Contract duration: 11 months
Location: Cambridge, UK 5 days onsite
Responsibilities:
- Set up, configure and test prototype devices, audio equipment and motion capture systems.
- Manage and maintain device networks, including setup and configuration of switches and related infrastructure.
- Perform multimodal data collections using these complex capture systems in controlled laboratory environments.
- Debug and resolve problems ranging from localized issues to those spanning entire systems.
- Contribute to hardware and software system improvements to improve efficiency of data collections.
Minimum Requirements:
- 2+ years of industry experience working with systems composed of hardware, firmware, and software
- 2+ years of experience with Python, scripting, networking, and Linux administration
- Experience with systems integration, testing, and automated validation
- Prototype & Hardware (Critical)
- Hands-on experience handling, setting up, configuring, and testing prototype-level devices — this is non-negotiable
- Comfortable working with audio equipment, capture systems, or similar specialist hardware
- Experience debugging and resolving issues across both hardware and software