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At ABB, we are dedicated to addressing global challenges. Our core values: care, courage, curiosity, and collaboration - combined with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities - are key drivers in our aim to empower everyone to create sustainable solutions. That's our story. Make it your story.

Your role and responsibilities

A 12month industrial work placement as an electronics and/or embedded software engineer working in analytical instrumentation as part of a product design and development team within a leading global engineering corporation. Based at our St Neots location, over the course of your industrial placement you will experience: 

  • Working with experienced electronics engineers to design, develop and test analogue and digital electronics solutions to meet required product specifications and agreed timescales.
  • Working with experienced embedded software engineers in the design, implementation and validating of embedded software for microcontroller based electronics products, primarily written in C, completed to agreed timescales and specification.
  • Supporting maintenance activities, including resolution of end of life component issues, root cause analysis of hardware and software issues
  • Working within a multi-functional team of design engineers on new product development projects and legacy product design enhancements.
  • Estimating, planning and documenting own work at all stages of development cycle.
  • Complying with the corporate and regulatory standards and systems relevant to the workplace for quality, safe working, ethics and integrity, environment and risk management

Qualifications for the role

  • Ongoing undergraduate studies in electronic engineering, systems engineering, software engineering (computer science) or other related subject and able to spend at least 12months in industrial employment beginning in 2025 - essential. Desired start date would be July 1st 2025 but a later start date in August or September could be accommodated for the right candidate.
  • Basic knowledge of analogue / digital electronics or basic competency in software design and programming of microcontroller systems using C - essential
  • Experience using tools such as oscilloscopes & logic analysers - desirable
  • Practical experience in electronics e.g. soldering, prototyping - desirable
  • Experience of other programming eg Python, C++, C#, LabView, etc - desirable