£70 Per hour
Inside
Onsite
Harlow, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Test & Development Engineer will oversee the design, manufacture, verification, and validation of test equipment at various levels, ensuring robust and reliable solutions. This role requires collaboration with hardware and software engineers, as well as adherence to design standards and compliance with health and safety legislation. Applicants must be eligible for Security Clearance and will work fully onsite in Harlow for a 12-month contract. The position is classified as inside IR35 and offers a competitive hourly rate.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design of functional test equipment for circuit cards, sub-assemblies, and systems.
- 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 and uphold design standards and methodologies.
- Realise complex system requirements to provide robust and reliable test hardware solutions.
- Collaborate with team members to agree on system designs, interfaces, and protocols.
- Develop 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.
- Manage obsolescence of test hardware throughout its lifecycle.
- Monitor and report progress of test development to supervisors and the development team.
- Support company compliance with Health and Safety legislation.
- Conduct business activities in line with company values, policies, and ethics codes of conduct.
- Accountable for engineering-specific risks and opportunities.
- Contribute to section/business area resource planning using Microsoft Project tools.
- Act as Test Engineering Lead for small/medium scale test engineering programs.
- Identify and engage appropriate SMEs to support Test Development Engineering activities.
- Serve as a key interface to external customers/suppliers.
Key Skills:
- 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.
- Excellent hardware troubleshooting skills.
- Able to support/debug system integration.
- Experience in the Defence/Aerospace or safety regulated environment (desired).
- Significant test development experience in industry.
- Use of Mentor Graphics schematic entry and PCB layout tools.
- Understanding of common test architectures PXI/d LXI.
- Knowledge of Measurement Uncertainty and its application in test equipment design and validation.
- Software Certification or detailed knowledge of NI LabView, NI CVI, NI TestStand, C#.
- Design of mixed signal circuits.
- High speed serial networks.
- An appreciation of RF electronics.
- Knowledge of power supply design.
Salary (Rate): £70ph UMB
City: Harlow
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Job summary The Senior Test & Development Engineer will be responsible for the design, manufacture, verification and validation, along with through life technical support of board level, sub-system and system level test equipment. Important All applicants must be able to obtain Security Clearance.
Job description Location: Harlow (fully onsite) Duration: 12 month contract Rate: £70ph UMB (Inside IR35) DOE We have multiple opportunities available with this team and are on the lookout for both perm and contract members of the team!
Responsibilities:
- Design of functional test equipment for circuit cards, sub-assemblies and systems.
- To 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.
- Take part in design reviews.
- Upholding of design standards and methodologies.
- Realisation of complex system requirements to provide robust and reliable test hardware solutions.
- Responsibility for the complete implementation of detailed technical items and an understanding/appreciation of system level items.
- Collaboration with other team members (including both hardware and software engineers) to agree system designs, interfaces and protocols etc.
- Development of appropriate test hardware, test software and procedures, both informal and formal, to prove the correct operation of hardware.
- Provide support to manufacturing answering product queries & resolving technical issues.
- Provide support for the test hardware and manage obsolescence throughout its lifecycle.
- Monitoring and reporting of progress of test development to immediate supervisor and development team.
- Proactively support company compliance to Health and Safety legislation through adherence to company polices, processes and practices.
- Ensure that 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.
- Application of Design Review Processes.
- Accountable for engineering specific risks and opportunities.
- Key contributor at Gate/Design reviews.
- Provides guidance of Test Development processes and tools.
- 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.
- Ability to identify and engage the appropriate SME's to support the Test Development Engineering activities.
- Contributor/Approver for standard/tailored test development process including Design Review gates and content.
- Key interface to external customers/suppliers.
Essential Skills:
- 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.
- Excellent hardware troubleshooting skills.
- Able to support/debug system integration.
Desired Skills:
- Experience in the Defence / Aerospace or safety regulated environment would be advantageous.
- Significant test development experience in industry.
- Use of Mentor Graphics schematic entry and PCB layout tools.
- Understanding of common test architectures PXI/d LXI.
- Measurement Uncertainty and its application in test equipment design and validation.
- Software Certification or detailed knowledge of: NI LabView, NI CVI, NI TestStand, C#.
- Design of mix signal circuits.
- High speed serial networks.
- An appreciation of RF electronics.
- Knowledge of power supply design.