Electronic Engineer, London - Netholabs
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Electronic Engineer
London, UK (London Bridge) · Hybrid / remote considered<br>Full-time<br>£95-145k (£65–85k base + £30–60k equity) / year<br>Start: Immediately
About Netholabs
Netholabs is an AI-native neuroscience company building petabyte-scale neural and behavioural datasets and the foundation models that learn from them. Our long-term ambition is whole brain emulation - understanding biological intelligence well enough to reconstruct it. We work across in vivo electrophysiology, naturalistic behaviour, machine vision, and large-scale neural data infrastructure, with operations in London, Brighton, and San Francisco.
The role
We're hiring an electronic engineer to design and build the hardware that runs our automated neuroethology platforms. You'll work alongside our experimental neuroscientists to turn experimental ideas into working electronics - from low-noise neural recording front-ends and stimulation hardware, to behavioural sensors, custom data acquisition, and the embedded systems that tie it all together. This is a hands-on role for someone who is happy to move quickly between schematic, PCB, bench, and rig - and who wants their circuits to end up running real experiments rather than sitting in a drawer.
The role is based at our London office near London Bridge. We work in person by default, but for the right candidate we'll consider hybrid or fully remote arrangements - with regular travel to London and Brighton when hardware needs to meet rigs.
What you'll do
Design and build custom PCBs for neural recording, stimulation, and behavioural instrumentation
Develop low-noise analog and mixed-signal front-ends for biosignal acquisition
Write embedded firmware (microcontroller / FPGA where appropriate) for data acquisition and rig control
Prototype rapidly - breadboard to PCB to deployed hardware on short cycles
Integrate electronics with mechanical fixtures, sensors, cameras, and recording systems on live experimental rigs
Debug at the bench and in the field: oscilloscope, logic analyser, in the rig, under real recording conditions
Own hardware reliability end-to-end - from spec to manufacture to maintenance
What we're looking for
Essential
3–5+ years of hands-on professional electronics experience
Strong PCB design skills (KiCad, Altium, or similar) - schematic capture through to manufacture-ready layouts
Solid analog and mixed-signal design fundamentals - you understand noise, grounding, and signal integrity in practice, not just on paper
Embedded firmware experience (C/C++ on microcontrollers; bonus for FPGA / HDL)
Comfort with rapid prototyping across electronics, mechanical fabrication, and 3D printing
Based in London (or willing to relocate), or able to travel to London / Brighton regularly if remote
Strongly preferred
Experience with low-noise instrumentation, biosignal acquisition, or neural recording hardware
Experience designing hardware that has shipped or been deployed in real-world / lab settings (not just prototypes)
Comfort writing host-side software (Python) to talk to your own hardware
Nice to have
Background in scientific instrumentation, medtech, or research hardware
FPGA / high-speed digital experience
Interest in neuroscience, foundation models, or whole brain emulation
Comfort working in a fast-moving, startup-style research environment
Compensation
Base: £65,000–85,000 (with flexibility above this for the right candidate)
Equity: £30,000–60,000 / year, vesting monthly over 4 years with a 3-month cliff
London Bridge office · hybrid / remote considered for the right candidate
How to apply
Send a CV plus a short note (no formal cover letter needed) describing one piece of electronics you designed and built - what it was for, what was hard about it, and what you'd do differently next time.
contact@netholabs.com
Netholabs 2026<br>London - San Francisco