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# System Validation Engineer

- **Company:** Hays plc
- **Location:** Fareham, United Kingdom
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £70,000 - £75,000
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Software Debugging, Hardware Design, Python (Programming Language), MATLAB, Software Engineering, System Testing, Scripting, Information Technology, Modeling and Simulation
- **Published:** November 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/system-validation-engineer/57560897

## About the Role

* Curious and passionate to share your knowledge whilst learning from others - regardless of their background, tenure, or seniority.
 * A good understanding of fundamental electrical theory.
 * Experience scripting with Python.
 * Capacitive touch experience is a huge benefit.
 * Electronic circuit design.
 * Prototype development.
 * Global customer-facing experience.
 * Experience of software development.
 * BSc or BEng in Electronics/Computer Science/Software Engineering (or a similar relevant subject).

You must be open to travelling to China for work, which is project dependent but estimated at 1 to 2 times per year (1-2-week duration). Beyond technical capability, you will enjoy taking ownership, making decisions and being accountable for outcomes in a fast-moving product environment., * Debugging

 * Electrical Engineering Knowledge
 * Electronics
 * ISO Standards
 * MATLAB & Simulink
 * MATLAB Programming
 * Metrology
 * Simulation Modeling
 * Soldering Skills
 * System Testing

## Description

The purpose of this role is to support the development and integration of products into customer devices, ensuring that both internal teams and customers achieve optimal technical solutions. This includes testing and evaluating internal developments, providing direct technical support for customer design-in activities, and designing and developing the tools needed to facilitate effective product integration.

As a Staff Engineer, the role also carries responsibility for providing technical leadership across multiple teams and systems. This includes working autonomously to drive technical developments, collaborating with the leadership team to define and deliver effective technical solutions, and mentoring engineers to support their technical development and growth.

 * Ensure the smoothest possible integration of the company product into the customer's device.
 * Provide a technical interface to customers both remotely and at their sites as required; this will involve international travel.
 * Support regional application teams to be confident that they can support customers locally.
 * Participate in product development and testing as required within the business.
 * Provide the basis & content for product documentation.
 * Provide constructive feedback from customers to influence the companies future development to meet customers' ever-changing needs.
 * Project task coordination and planning.
 * Provide timely status reports on projects to project management.
 * Hardware design and development of tooling adhering to customer requirements (internal and external customers)., At Hays Technology, we're shaping the future of recruitment. As demand for specialist engineering talent continues to grow, we work closely with organisations and individuals to create opportunities where people can make a real impact.