Senior Design Manager

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

£30 - £65/hour

Job Title: Senior System Engineer

Via the AgileOne Programme

Supporting MSD UK (Location)

Start Date

1.9.2026

Location

Cambourne, UK

Duration

2 years

Contract Type

Payee

Remote Role

Hybrid, at least 2 days in office

Role Description

Our Technology Solutions division is evolving. We are moving to a Product Operating Model – a new way of working that empowers product teams to take full ownership and accountability for delivering customer and business value in ways our customers love and that work for the business.

Our product and platform teams are cross-functional and durable, bringing together all the skills required to deliver impactful outcomes. Each team includes a Product Manager, Technology Lead, Product Designer, Delivery Lead, engineers, and developers.

We believe in customer centricity, ownership, and accountability. Solutions must be:

Valuable – customers choose to buy or use them
Viable – aligned with business constraints and goals
Usable – intuitive and user-friendly
Feasible – achievable with our technical capabilities

Leadership of the Product team is shared between the Product Manager and the Technology Lead, ensuring balanced guidance that bridges product vision and technical execution.

As Senior System Engineer you will have significant impact on our multi-disciplinary R&D projects, grow with us as we venture into new technologies and will lead work groups in our projects as part of the connected devices line of products during the product lifecycle of both discovery and delivery.

Role Functions

(Functions include, but are not limited to, the following)

The responsibilities will include defining System, HW, Embedded, ATE, SW & Integration requirements as well as contributing to the design stage of each discipline, defining the protocol, technical problem solving, proof of concept and field testing and assisting in tests design and investigations.

Experience, Knowledge & Skills

The position requires multidisciplinary understanding, ability to quickly grasp new technological aspects as well as constraints , the capability to work in a multi-site matrix organization and working closely in a Product and Platform team with other system engineers, embedded software developers, HW engineers, Integration Engineers as well as backend and front-end teams.

Skills & Characteristics:

Ability to focus on what's important.
Organized and able to work well in a structured process environment
Strong desire for learning and innovation.
“hands-on” approach.
Excellent team player.
Good verbal & written communication Skills.

Qualifications & Education

Requirements:

BSC/MSc in Electrical engineering or higher
Minimum of 5 years of experience in system engineering of multidisciplinary systems
Experience in working with communication products, Embedded, HW, RF systems
Problem solver with good personal and teamwork skills.
Ability to understand complex IoT systems and quickly grasp new technical concepts with focus on challenges ahead and alternative comparison
Experience of working in complex multidisciplinary projects that requires a high level of technical know-how

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