Summary: The Senior Test Development Engineer role involves designing, manufacturing, verifying, and validating test equipment for a leading defence and aerospace company. The position requires collaboration with hardware and software engineers to ensure robust and reliable solutions while providing leadership to junior engineers. This is a 12-month contract position based in Glenrothes or Livingston, requiring on-site presence four days a week. The role is classified as inside IR35.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design of functional test equipment
• Take responsibility for the design and overall quality of the test equipment and provide leadership and guidance for junior engineers
• Documentation of design specifications and implementation details; participate in design reviews
• Realisation of complex system requirements to provide robust and reliable test hardware solutions
• Responsibility for the complete implementation of detailed technical items and understanding/appreciation of system level items
• Collaboration with other team members to agree on system designs, interfaces, and protocols
• Development of appropriate test hardware, test software, and procedures to prove the correct operation of hardware
• Provide support to manufacturing by answering product queries and resolving technical issues
• Proactively support company compliance to Health and Safety legislation
• Ensure all business activity is conducted in line with company values, policies, and ethics codes of conduct
• Undertake any other activity as reasonably requested by management
• Accountable for engineering specific risks and opportunities
• Contribute to section/business area resource planning with a working understanding of Microsoft Project tools
• Test Engineering Lead for a small/medium scale test engineering program
• Contributor/Approver for standard/tailored test development process including IPDS gates and content

Key Skills:

• Degree qualified in Electronic Engineering or related subject (preferably at 2.1 Hons or higher)
• Test software design experience
• Excellent knowledge of analogue and digital electronic circuit design
• Ability to write comprehensive technical design documentation
• Proven experience in handover and management of designs in production
• Significant test development experience in industry (highly desirable)
• Use of Mentor Graphics schematic entry and PCB layout tools (highly desirable)
• Understanding of common test architectures PXI/d LXI (highly desirable)
• Measurement Uncertainty and its application in test equipment design and validation (highly desirable)
• Software Certification or detailed knowledge of NI LabView, NI CVI, NI TestStand, C# (highly desirable)
• Design of mixed signal circuits (highly desirable)

Salary (Rate): £75

City: Glenrothes

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: on-site

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: Other