Electrical Engineer

Electrical Engineer

Location: Abingdon, Oxfordshire

Working pattern: 4 days per week onsite, with some flexibility

Salary: £35,000 - £80,000 depending on experience

Graduate opportunities from: £25,000+

Benefits: EMI share options, up to 10% annual bonus, 25 days holiday + bank holidays, pension

Searchability is working with a fast-growing, venture-backed engineering technology company based at Culham Science Centre.

Founded in 2024 as a UKAEA spinout, the company has grown from two to ten employees in around a year and expects to reach approximately twenty people over the next 12 months.

The team is developing an AI platform that accelerates hardware engineering while retaining the traceability, technical governance and professional sign-off required for regulated engineering.

You’ll combine traditional electrical engineering with exposure to cutting-edge AI technology, splitting your time between delivering real engineering projects and helping develop the platform those projects inform.

We’re looking for an Electrical Engineer with strong practical engineering experience who has taken designs beyond drawings and calculations and followed them through into physical delivery.

There are two potential backgrounds that could work particularly well.

You may have experience designing electrical systems for machinery, automation or industrial equipment, including:

• Machinery Directive requirements
• EN 60204-1
• LV distribution
• Field device wiring
• Motors and drives
• Power supplies
• Electrical cabinet design
• Electrical calculations
• Schematics and technical documentation

Alternatively, you may come from an electrical building services or complex facilities environment with experience including:

• BS 7671
• Low-voltage distribution downstream of the transformer
• Electrical design for complex buildings or facilities
• Nuclear facilities
• Data centres
• Complex commercial or scientific sites

Whichever route you’ve taken, we’re looking for someone who is design-led but practical
.

You’ll ideally have:

• Experience taking electrical designs through to physical installation or site
• Strong LV electrical engineering fundamentals
• Broad rather than highly specialised engineering experience
• Experience working alongside controls engineers
• An understanding of real hardware and field devices
• Some exposure to programming or an interest in developing coding skills
• The ability to work across multidisciplinary engineering projects
• An interest in how AI can improve traditional engineering processes

Experience with
CE/UKCA marking, technical construction files, declarations of conformity or functional safety would be particularly valuable.

The company works extensively with C#, but previous C# experience isn’t required and the team can teach it.

The business will consider candidates ranging from strong graduates through to engineers with approximately 15 years of experience.

Around 5-10 years' experience is the natural sweet spot
, although practical ability, attitude and breadth of engineering experience are more important than a specific number of years.

Candidates from machinery, automation, nuclear, scientific facilities, data centres and other highly regulated or technically complex environments could all be relevant.

Indicative salary levels are:

Graduate: £25,000+

Engineer: £35,000+

Senior: £50,000+

Principal: £70,000 - £80,000

There can be flexibility for particularly strong candidates.

The wider package includes EMI share options for early hires, an annual bonus of up to 10%, 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays and a NEST pension.

You’ll initially have a 30-minute screening conversation before progressing to an onsite interview at Culham Science Centre lasting approximately two hours.

The onsite stage combines an informal conversation, a demonstration of current work and a formal interview. A technical exercise may occasionally be provided beforehand.