Test Solutions Engineer

Description

The team designs and builds test solutions for complex electronic systems, mostly RF, digital and analogue, within the company's Test Solutions group.

The role sits within multidisciplinary systems engineering teams that combine engineering disciplines into high-performance systems, turning feasible concepts into buildable ones.

The salary range shown is the approved grade band for this role or a narrower hiring range within it, benchmarked against the external market. Offers above the standard range go through governance controls to protect internal equity.

Responsibilities

• Work on problems ranging from design and technical analysis through to developing test solutions.
• Help capture requirements for Test Equipment Requirement Specifications (TERS).
• Manage parts and documentation, including change management.
• Make sure the company's life-cycle design reviews are implemented effectively.
• Join a team building hardware and software test solutions, from writing the requirements specification through to testing.
• Develop software in LabVIEW and TestStand.
• Support supplier management and make-or-buy decisions on projects as needed.
• Identify technical risks, such as test solution or obsolescence risks, and plan how to mitigate them.

Requirements

• Understand a range of electronic technologies well, and have a good grasp of one hardware, systems or software engineering lifecycle.
• Have experience working with external suppliers.
• Hold a degree or an equivalent qualification.
• Communicate clearly with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Show that you work well in a team.
• Optional: understand digital, analogue and RF systems well, including ESM and ECM.
• Optional: have test equipment experience, including operating and maintaining equipment.
• Optional: have worked in defence electronics, ideally on airborne sensor systems.
• Optional: have used DOORS or a similar requirements capture tool.
• Optional: have used LabVIEW and TestStand, or equivalent software test automation tools.

Conditions

Travel within the UK and Europe may be required.

Permanent contract.

Hybrid working, based in Luton, GB (Cap. Green 300).

The salary range shown is the approved grade band for this role or a narrower hiring range within it, benchmarked against the external market. Offers above the standard range go through governance controls to protect internal equity.