Cortech Talent Solutions Ltd
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Role: Hybrid Systems Engineer (LabVIEW / NI)
Location: Field based, with a home office in Oxfordshire or the Thames Valley. Regular travel to customer sites in Oxford, Bicester, Milton Keynes, Bristol and Bedfordshire, plus the main office and workshop in Sheffield.
Salary: £40,000 to £50,000
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are systems integrators providing bespoke hardware engineering and software development services for a wide range of automated data acquisition, test, measurement, control and IoT applications. As a dynamic SME, our customers span healthcare, energy, aerospace and defence, automotive and R&D, and are based throughout the UK and occasionally overseas.
Following strong growth in 2025/6, particularly across the Southern region, we are looking for an experienced Field Systems Engineer to join our team. You will support customers on active projects across their sites, with priority given to the Southern corridor where most of our customer base sits. The role is especially suited to someone based in Oxfordshire or the Thames Valley, as we currently have large projects with a healthcare customer in Oxford, an aerospace and defence customer in Bristol and automotive customers in Milton Keynes. We also support customers around Southampton, London, Coventry and Bedfordshire.
The electrical and electronic bias is important. The main focus is designing electrical circuits and systems for ATE and process control, from end to end. That means working with customers to understand what is electrically required to safety test products, selecting the correct measurement equipment, and understanding the importance of signal integrity, grounding and shielding. If you come from more of an electronics background, that is fine too, as the process is similar, though you will need to be willing to learn the electrical side.
Whether you join as a Systems Engineer or Senior Systems Engineer will depend on your technical knowledge and proven capability. We are looking for the right fit and are open to talking to people at different skill levels. You will have a driven, results focused attitude.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
You will support customers across a wide range of applications and industries, from delivering small data acquisition systems or debugging existing client systems through to developing and commissioning complex control and data acquisition systems onsite.
Duties include, but are not limited to:
- Full lifecycle project delivery as part of a team (project size dependent on experience)
- Providing timely, accurate and effective solutions to technical problems
- Onsite installation and commissioning of both hardware and software systems
- Programming memory and speed efficient data acquisition and control applications
- Developing intuitive graphical user interfaces
- Selecting the correct measurement hardware for a given application based on the customer's specification
- Collaborating with systems engineers, and product hardware and software engineers, throughout each system's development and production lifecycle
- Troubleshooting problems in systems that include both software and hardware
- Delivering technical presentations and demonstrations to customers, colleagues and partners
- Architecture design and project management through the full project lifecycle, including managing internal project teams. Project size and complexity will increase with your skills and capability
- Working with the business development team to develop technical solutions and provide project costings based on client discussions, including requirements qualification and responding to RFQs
- Creating technical documentation in line with our quality assurance system, including specifications, test plans and user manuals
- PLC or NI instrumentation and control panel experience
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QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS
You will need strong problem solving, communication and business acumen skills, alongside a passion for technology. It is important that you maintain a close working relationship with the team building the systems, so issues are resolved quickly and lessons are learnt for future projects.
Technical skills
- Degree in Electrical or Electronic Engineering (electronics and communications, control systems or mechatronics also considered)
- Knowledge of instrumentation, control and industrial automation
- Demonstrable experience in measurement and instrumentation design
- Proven experience in requirements capture and writing technical proposals
- Experience delivering systems for test
- Ability to debug and solve problems across a range of systems efficiently
- Experience with test and measurement equipment. National Instruments is preferred, though Beckhoff, Keysight and similar are also fine
- eCAD experience, EPlan preferred
- Experience with mainstream PLC brands (Siemens, Allen Bradley etc) is preferred but not essential
- Desire and ability to learn new skills, programming languages and applications
Core competencies
- A results focused, action oriented mentality, with the ability to work effectively with customers to deliver successful project outcomes
- Ability to multitask, manage time and prioritise effectively
- Strong problem solving skills, analysing issues methodically while thinking creatively to find solutions
- Excellent written, oral and presentation skills
- Enjoys working as part of a team as well as autonomously
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Other requirements
- Legal right to live and work in the UK, with a valid passport for global travel
- Full, clean, valid UK driving licence and own vehicle for work travel
- Flexibility to travel throughout the UK, including at short notice, around 50% of the time
Desirable
- Understanding and practical experience of object oriented principles
- Knowledge and experience of NI hardware platforms (DAQmx, cRIO, PXI) and embedded systems, including LabVIEW FPGA and LabVIEW Real Time
- NI platform certifications, e.g. CLD, CLA, CTD, CTA, CLED
- Experience in a text based language such as Python, Java, C or C++ (preferred but not essential)
- Some software development experience. LabVIEW would be ideal, but TwinCAT, Siemens TIA, Allen Bradley etc would provide transferable skills
- Ability to draw system level diagrams in a CAD package, preferably EPlan
- Safety knowledge, machine safety 13849 or 62061
- Machinery Directive and Low Voltage Directive experience or knowledge
- 18th Edition, to ensure designs meet the correct regulations
LOCATION AND WORKING PATTERN
Our main office and workshop are in Sheffield. This role is field based, with the majority of your time spent on customer sites across the South, particularly Bristol, Oxfordshire and Bedfordshire. Hybrid working is possible for software and design tasks. You will also need flexibility to support UK wide customers as requested, and to regularly attend and stay over at our Sheffield office to support hardware build and test and integrate with the wider engineering team.
OUR TEAM
Some companies say "our team" to refer to their staff. Ours really are a team. We proactively foster a collaborative, supportive and vibrant culture. Our passionate developers, systems architects, electrical and mechanical engineers and data scientists combine their expertise in leading hardware and software to develop innovative solutions. We relish a challenge, working with new clients to deliver the right solution for each application, and we work together to make sure what we do is enjoyable and everyone is heard.
HOW TO APPLY
Please email your CV to danni@cortechtalentsolutions.co.uk
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