Contract Senior System Engineer

Cambridge: Hybrid (2 days on site)

Contract: 2 Years, Inside IR35

Rate: Versatile

Want real influence across every discipline of a connected hardware product, rather than staying boxed into one layer of the stack?

We're working with a quick-growing connected-device business building an advanced IoT hardware product with real system architecture and connectivity complexity. They need a Senior System Engineer to shape requirements across system, hardware, embedded, ATE, software and integration, contribute to design decisions in each discipline, and lead proof-of-concept and field testing.

What You'll Bring
Experience in system engineering of multidisciplinary hardware products
Background working with communication products, embedded systems, hardware or RF
A natural problem-solver who works well both independently and in a team




Quick to get to grips with new, complex IoT concepts and weigh up alternative approaches
Comfortable operating on projects that demand real technical depth across disciplines

Also Valued
Comfortable in a Linux setting
Experience with Atlassian tools and/or Azure DevOps
Curiosity about applying agentic AI to discovery and innovation work
Coding ability in C, C#, Java or Python
Familiarity with RF technologies such as BLE, WiFi, LTE-M or LoRa
Some backend or serverless systems knowledge
Exposure to cloud infrastructure for IoT products

If you want genuine cross-disciplinary ownership on a technically rich product, this is a role where that scope is real.
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