System Engineer

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