Integration Engineer

Location: Cambridge, England, gb

Company Description

Cell therapies are already changing what’s possible for patients, including people facing cancers and other diseases that once had few options. The next challenge is access. To help more patients, manufacturing has to become more reliable, more repeatable, and easier to scale. At Cellular Origins, we’re building that shift, and as an Integration Engineer you’ll be one of the people who makes it real, bringing complex subsystems together until the whole platform behaves as one.

Cellular Origins is enabling scalable, cost-effective and efficient manufacture of cell and gene therapies. Our robotic automation approach is designed to reduce hands-on labour, remove avoidable human error, and increase consistency, so more therapies can be made with confidence, at greater scale.

Job Description

About the role

This is a hands-on role at the heart of product delivery. You’ll help integrate the hardware and software that make up Constellation, our automated manufacturing system, and you’ll play a key part in moving us from development into verification with a system that’s robust, testable, and ready to prove itself.

What you’ll do

You’ll work within a multi-disciplinary product team, close to the real kit, where your work directly affects how quickly and safely we can deliver.

You’ll get to:

• Bring hardware and software subsystems together, making sure integration is smooth at every stage of development

• Plan and run integration tests and experiments, then turn results into clear conclusions and practical next steps

• Troubleshoot complex electro-mechanical behaviour, finding root causes and feeding insights back into design

• Write strong technical documentation, including experiment protocols, reports, and evidence that supports verification

• Build and improve the software glue that helps hardware-focused systems behave reliably

• Work closely with engineers across robotics, software, hardware, and systems, keeping integration moving in a fast-paced environment

• Help shape the way we transfer from product development into product verification, so we build quality in, not bolt it on later

Qualifications

About you

You’ll thrive here if you like making complex systems work in the real world, not just on paper. You’ll enjoy being the person who spots what doesn’t line up between subsystems, works through the ambiguity, and leaves things clearer and better than you found them.

You’ll bring:

• A Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Engineering, Physics, or a related discipline, plus industry experience

• Proven experience integrating and troubleshooting complex electro-mechanical systems, ideally in a product development setting

• Strong technical analysis and documentation skills, including writing experiment protocols, processing results, and reporting findings

• Confident communication and collaboration skills, you’ll be comfortable working across disciplines and balancing priorities

• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Python, Java, C# or C++

• Experience developing software for hardware-focused applications

• A practical approach to identifying issues, performing root cause analysis, and giving clear feedback to design teams

Desirable experience that will help you hit the ground running:

• Industrial, networked communication protocols such as MQTT

• Robotic hardware and prototyping software such as ROS1/2

• CAD tools such as SolidWorks

• Electronics design and embedded software development

• Virtualisation and containerisation

• Strong Python skills, including object-oriented programming and design patterns

• Highly proficient in Python including object-oriented programming and design patterns 

This role is a full time, on-site position at our campus in Melbourn.

Additional Information

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• 25 days holiday
• Employer pension contribution of 10% of salary
• Free lunch and all-day refreshments
• Private medical insurance for employees and dependants
• Enhanced family friendly leave
• Life insurance worth 6x salary
• Electric car leasing scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Activities and community that supports healthy activities that bring colleagues together; whether it’s lunchtime squash or football, Zumba or our own rock band. Colleagues initiate new clubs and outings whenever they feel there’s something missing!
• Local sports facilities and theatre discounts and memberships.

Ready to make your mark?

If you want to be the person who brings the pieces together, and you like the idea that your work can help more patients access life-changing therapies, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now and tell us what you’ve integrated, what you learned when it went wrong, and what you’re excited to build next at Cellular Origins.