QA Engineering Placement

QA Engineering Placement (Audio & MIDI Hardware, Software, Firmware Testing)

Based: High Wycombe
Type: Full-time, 12-month placement
Salary: £26250 pa

Are you about to graduate from university, or are you a current student looking for a one-year internship?

Are you passionate and knowledgeable about music, audio technology and recording?

You'll work closely with the rest of the QA Team, and other members of the Engineering Department, including Product and Project Managers, as well as Hardware, Software and Firmware Developers.

Key activities include:

• Supporting our existing users with testing for maintenance updates, as well as ensuring on-going compatibility with third party software and hardware releases
• Performing functional, non-functional, and exploratory testing on new products under development
• Helping to keep our automated test rigs running, responding to any issues with our systems to maximise uptime and test coverage
• Analysing test results and logs, including those from our automated test-runs, reporting any issues/patterns to the appropriate development teams
• Helping to validate that new technologies and product concepts are fit for purpose

An ideal candidate is likely to be:

• Working towards a degree-level qualification in science, engineering, technology, or related discipline
• Interested in quality, and able to appreciate what this means in practice to our users
• A clear communicator, methodical and rigorous, with a logical approach to problem solving
• Familiar with computers, and the use of Command Line Interfaces. Basic scripting ability and an interest in programming would also be an advantage
• Passionate and knowledgeable about music, audio technology

About the Focusrite Group

Doing a 12-month placement at the Focusrite Group is like becoming one of the family. A rapidly growing, global family. We're focused on providing opportunities for everyone and anyone to enjoy creating music.

Our placements are very popular, and that's mainly because you can really get stuck in during your year with us. We want you to help develop our products, market our brands, speak to our customers and make us better. A lot of our previous placement candidates are now full-time employees.

All placements last for 12-months. We pay you £26250 per year (£28900 for London-based roles), and you get to share some of the same benefits as our permanent employees.

Our brands, Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Novation, Ampify, ADAM Audio, Martin Audio, Optimal Audio, Linea Research, Sequential, Oberheim, Sonnox, OutBoard and TiMax come together around a common mission to remove barriers to creativity.

Please apply for as many of our placements as you wish.

Timetable for applications:

Deadline to apply: 27th November 2026

Interviews: December 2026 – February 2027

Offers made by: 26th February 2027