TTP is an employee-owned technology and product development consultancy with a 40-year track record of partnering with ambitious clients to solve complex challenges and bring innovative, commercially successful solutions to market.
We invent, design, and develop impactful products and technologies across industries – from healthcare and life science to energy and communications – working at the intersection of engineering, physical science, and biology.
Our culture encourages entrepreneurship, shared ideas, and technical collaboration, while giving you the freedom to do your best work.
Lead the development of breakthrough optical technologies for ophthalmology and advanced surgical applications. Working within TTP's Advanced Surgical team, you'll apply expertise in optics, photonics and imaging systems to develop innovative medical devices, diagnostic platforms and surgical technologies from concept through commercialisation while working alongside world-class scientists and engineers.
You’ll play a pivotal role in our Advanced Surgical team developing transformative medical technologies for the eyecare market and beyond, such as next generation diagnostic systems, surgical tools and lenses.
While your background will be in engineering or physics, with core expertise in optical systems, your role will be diverse. From blank sheet to manufacture, you will be key in advancing our work in the eyecare space leading technical workstreams and projects. You’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams – including physicists, electronics and mechanical engineers, software developers, and human factors specialists – and work with clients ranging from dynamic start-ups to global medtech and pharma companies.
Your role will be underpinned by a strong curiosity and technical understanding transforming you into a technical authority that demonstrates TTP’s credibility in this space. You will also play a key role in the interactions with our clients by leveraging a combination of commercial curiosity and a deep technical understanding to help identify and close opportunities and to deepen client relationships.
You will also have opportunities to apply your skills beyond your home team contributing to projects across TTP’s wider Health Tech and multi-sector portfolio.
We’re seeking a technically brilliant and creative problem-solver who thrives in a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment. We're looking for candidates who want to impact the industry both commercially and technically; those who don't just solve problems - but who seek them out, thrive on them, and elevate those around them while doing so.
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TTP operates from an award-winning campus in green surroundings in Melbourn, just south of Cambridge.
We offer a generous benefits package including:
Please click the following link to read the TTP Group Diversity Statement.

At TTP we work with start-ups through to big corporates, across multiple sectors, to solve challenging problems steeped in technology. By combining passion and flexibility with a deep expertise in science, engineering, and design, we help our clients unlock opportunities and make brilliant things happen.
We’re independent, we’re free-thinkers and we’re agile to the core, and for nearly 40 years it’s helped us find better solutions faster – time and time again. We take a multidisciplinary approach, and our teams are set up around the project needs, which means we can tackle your problem holistically from the start. What’s more, we’ll be on your side and work with you as one team, and we’ll want the project to succeed as much as you do.