Graduate Electronics Engineer

Company description

About us

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. 

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. 

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Job description

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  

Additional information

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

We believe diversity fuels ingenuity. Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge, and diversity of skills brings the tools we need. When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds, identities, and minds, embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive; we unleash the power of diversity – bringing ingenuity to life.

Find out more about Life at PA here.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us at Earlycareers@paconsulting.com