Senior Systems Engineer

A well funded and rapidly expanding Oxford start-up is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to take full ownership of their next-generation products - from first concept to field-ready reality. This is a technical leadership role at the heart of everything we build: architecture, integration, verification, and productization of complex opto-electro-mechanical systems.

You'll sit at the intersection of precision mechanics, automation, software, and reliability engineering - turning ambitious R&D into robust, high-performance products our customers can rely on. Working across early-stage research, customer engagements, and product development, you'll help shape the technical roadmap and mature prototypes into deliverable systems.

The Senior Systems Engineer will own:

End-to-end systems ownership

• Lead system architecture from concept through requirements, design, prototyping, verification, and release
• Build system-level specifications, performance budgets, and risk models spanning optical, mechanical, electrical, and software domains
• Define and drive processes for integration, validation, and troubleshooting

Integration & verification

• Bring motion control, electronics, and machine vision together into fully functional, production-ready systems
• Apply optical modelling and simulation tools to optimise performance and eli...