CML hiring after expanding into Cambridge Science Park HQ
CML is already recruiting – in particular for silicon engineers to expand its fabless silicon/ driver chip design operations and to manage growing business opportunities.
The company, which recently raised more than $40 million to fast-track international expansion, is seeing exciting growth in customer opportunities in its smartphone base plus in new areas such as AR/VR and Medical Devices with its platform SMA technology.
Its engineers continue to maintain CML’s status as world leader in shape memory alloy technology development – actuator designs, control algorithms and fabless driver IC chip creation. The collaborative engineering functions are actively supported by sales, marketing and applications teams in Cambridge.
The company also has two support offices in China and has just opened an R & D centre in Copenhagen to further its capabilities and expertise in developing next generation control algorithms.
The Cambridge base contains a mix of office, lab and meeting space. It includes specialist facilities such as an anechoic chamber for sound sensitive measurements. The lab elements for building, testing and development have been designed with the company’s needs in mind, greatly enhancing workflow efficiency.
CML says the new building has a spacious lobby area for welcoming guests and visitors, adjacent to which is a demo room where it will be able to showcase its technology in a dedicated space. Facilities such as showers enable staff to enjoy active travel and lunchtime activities and a spacious canteen should help foster conversations between staff members across all levels and disciplines.
The new office provides 50 per cent more space compared to the current facilities at the Westbrook Centre. This will allow the company to accommodate the anticipated increase in staff numbers for future expansion.
Dr Alexander Doust, Director of Marketing and Global Sales Operations, said: “We are looking forward to being tenants at the Science Park, home to many great technology companies past and present. The proximity to the Bradfield Centre will also enable greater integration into the dynamic Cambridge tech scene.”
CML also plans to bring home the bacon with its new Danish office. The R & D centre is dedicated to further enhancing the company’s leadership in control algorithms, with the aim of developing innovative and new differentiating product control features and their optimised implementation.
The Copenhagen office is strategically located to take advantage of Denmark’s rich engineering history, particularly in the areas of smartphone algorithm development, firmware (FW) implementation and optimisation.
By leveraging Copenhagen’s exceptional engineering talent, CML aims to accelerate the development of advanced control algorithms for SMA actuators to better support both the smartphone camera and new product actuator markets. Currently, CML’s enhanced SMA solutions are significantly enhancing autofocus and optical image stabilisation capabilities in compact cameras – setting new standards in camera functionality and user experience.
The team in Copenhagen will add significant expertise and experience to drive forward CML’s core competence of control algorithms, which complements CML’s capability to design and produce the world’s leading semiconductor driver IC solutions for SMA systems.
The innovation and development will leverage advanced machine learning and data-driven approaches to developing the next generation of control algorithms and customer support tools.
Dr Ben Brown (CTO) at Cambridge Mechatronics Ltd. says: “Our decision to expand our operations into Copenhagen reflects our strategic direction to grow our investment in SMA control and driver IC’s.
“The new R & D office brings us closer to some of the world’s best talents in algorithm development and firmware implementation and together with our existing and next generation actuator designs will meet the growing demand for robust and accurate high-force actuation in the smartphone camera market and beyond.”
