Graduate Electronics Engineer
Power Your Curiosity at PA
Joining us as a graduate is a big step. Whether you’re coming from a specialist background or from an unrelated subject, we want you to be bold, stay curious and dive into the opportunities we have to offer.
Our Graduates Make a Difference
If you want a balance of technology, commercial and real-world applications, coupled with an opportunity to work across a broad range of industry sectors, then this might be what you have been looking for.
At PA Consulting we have a unique combination of industry expertise and engineering capability. At our dedicated Global Innovation Technology Centre in Cambridge UK, we develop award-winning products and manufacturing processes, helping clients understand and use technology more effectively.
Our electronic engineers have expertise in creating electronic systems and are constantly learning about their craft and broadening their knowledge, working alongside colleagues who all have a passion for using what they know, every day. We work across the development process, from design, simulation and prototyping through, test and transfer to volume manufacture. Our consultants bring experience from across industry and consultancy to ensure the quality and value of our client deliverables.
Our key areas of expertise include:
- Turnkey product development
- RF and Wireless Technology
- High Performance FPGA Processing
- Power Conversion
- Automation
We work with our clients throughout a product’s lifecycle
- Requirement capture
- System design and partitioning
- Rapid prototyping
- Product development
- Test and verification
- Functional testing, environmental testing, EMC testing, regulatory approvals, user trials
- Transfer to manufacture
A career at PA is what you make of it — so power your curiosity and prepare to make an impact.
Qualifications
Accredited degree in Electronic Engineering (or related subject, e.g. Physics, Biomedical Engineering)
You should have a knowledge and an interest across one or more of these areas:
- Electronic circuit design principles.
- Digital electronics - DSP, FPGA
- Microcontrollers, Microprocessors and embedded hardware design.
- Embedded software development in C
- Power electronics and switch mode power supply design.
- Radio frequency electronics / communication systems
- Product design experience desirable
We’re looking for graduates and early career level electronic engineers who:
- Have practical experience of electronics developments through university, work or home projects
- Enjoy using your engineering skills to develop solutions to real-world problems
- Are credible and comfortable working with clients in high performance environments
- Can build strong relationships— with both clients and peers
- Are curious and want to broaden their understanding of the world
- Are collaborative and work at their best in dynamic teams
- Are hungry for new challenges
The Offer
- The opportunity to work on meaningful projects with talented people across a wide range of assignments
- You will be an important part of developing creative technical solutions for break-out products and manufacturing processes, contributing your expertise in electronic engineering
- Variety and breadth. Your role may range from creating a novel wireless connected product, developing a high-performance data processor to designing an innovative medical device. Our clients need us to work at the cutting edge and you will be ready to help
- You will innovate at the intersection of science, technology and market needs. We pride ourselves on developing innovative solutions to hard problems
- Your work base will be our Global Innovation & Technology Centre, Melbourn, Cambridge
- Salary potential: £30,500 with additional £3,500 transport allowance
- This role will start in Autumn 2025