2026 Graduate - Electronic Engineer - Cambridge

Company Description 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 teams of interdisciplinary 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. Power Your Curiosity at PA Why considering joining us? 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. 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. What you can expect We work with our clients throughout the complete product lifecycle. Some of the projects our recent graduates have had major roles in: Implementing complex encryption algorithms on FPGAs Creating, refining and building a high precision, low noise analogue front end Testing and developing cutting edge mesh networking systems Working with research institutions to produce a prototype RF metasurface Developing a motion control system with adaptive force based on user input Assessment process First Stage Assessments: Application form Online Assessments Shortlisting and/or Technical Assessments Final Stage Assessments: Assessment Centre with Technical Assessments Final Stage Interviews 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 The opportunity to experience all phases of development, from conceptualisation and theoretical design to hands‑on building/prototyping and testing in our workshops 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