Contract Senior Systems Engineer

Contract Senior System Engineer Cambridge: Hybrid (2 days on site) Contract: 2 Years, Inside IR35 Rate: Flexible

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 fast-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 disciplinesAlso Valued

Comfortable in a Linux environment 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 productsIf you want genuine cross-disciplinary ownership on a technically rich product, this is a role where that scope is real.

Keen to discuss further? Option 1: Click the apply button (don't worry, we'll discuss your CV before submitting). Option 2: Drop me a message on LinkedIn (Rachel Bush – SoCode Recruitment)