Senior Product Test Development Engineer

Senior Test Development Engineer

Location: Edinburgh

Salary: Up to £70,000 + £7,500 Welcome Bonus

Security Clearance: Must be eligible for BPSS (SC desirable)

Type: Permanent | Full-Time

An established and growing advanced engineering organisation is seeking a Senior Test Development Engineer to support the design and development of complex electronic test solutions.

This is a key senior role within a high-growth R&D environment, offering strong technical ownership, leadership responsibility, and genuine progression opportunities.

You will be working on advanced electronic systems supporting mission-critical applications across land, sea, air, and space platforms.

You will take ownership of the design, development, validation and lifecycle support of test equipment at board, subsystem and system level.

• Design and development of functional test equipment for electronic systems
• Hardware and software integration, debug and fault finding
• Verification and validation of test solutions
• Production support, issue resolution and obsolescence management
• Leading technical design reviews and producing high‑quality documentation
• Mentoring and supporting junior engineers
• Driving robust, scalable and maintainable test architectures

• Strong analogue and digital electronic circuit design knowledge
• Proven experience developing test equipment in an engineering environment
• Test software development experience
• Excellent hardware troubleshooting skills
• Experience supporting system integration and debug
• Experience handing designs into production
  
  Ability to produce clear, structured technical documentation
• Eligibility for UK Security Clearance (minimum BPSS)

• Significant industry experience in test development
• PXI / LXI test architectures
• Mentor Graphics schematic capture and PCB layout
• Measurement uncertainty and validation principles
• NI LabVIEW, NI CVI, NI Test Stand or C#
• Mixed signal design
• High‑speed serial networks
• RF electronics awareness
• Power supply design