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# Senior Test Equipment Design Engineer

- **Company:** Guidant Global
- **Location:** Stevenage, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** LabVIEW, Teststand
- **Published:** July 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/test-equipment-design-engineer/guidant-global-job107754700

## About the Role

* Strong, current experience in electronics and test engineering
 * Proven background creating Automated Test Equipment
 * Solid understanding of modern test methodologies (ICT, Functional, Boundary Scan)
 * Experience designing measurement and instrumentation systems
 * Confident interpreting technical requirements and drawings
 * Analytical, pragmatic problem solver comfortable making engineering decisions

Desirable (not essential)

 * NI LabVIEW and/or TestStand
 * Boundary Scan / XJTAG

## Description

We're recruiting an experienced Test Equipment Design Engineer to work on the development of Automated Test Equipment (ATE) supporting complex electronic systems in a defence environment.
This is a hands-on hardware and test engineering role with real technical ownership, working across the full lifecycle - from requirements through design, verification, and in service support.
What you'll be doing

 * Designing Automated Test Equipment to support production and product verification
 * Translating system and product requirements into test architectures and specifications
 * Developing and reviewing test strategies including ICT, Functional Test, and Boundary Scan
 * Designing measurement systems, considering instrumentation, grounding, and power distribution
 * Leading technical investigations and resolving complex test and diagnostic issues
 * Producing technical documentation to support manufacturing and in service use
 * Supporting bids and early phase technical definition where needed
 * Providing technical leadership and mentoring to junior engineers (no line management split unless agreed)


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