Senior Product Test Development Engineer

Job description

(Electronic Test Systems | Defence & Aerospace)

Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland – MUST be local or willing to relocate

£70,000 salary + £7,500 welcome bonus + relocation support

Full-time, permanent | 37 hours per week | Fully on-site

Defence / Aerospace Engineering

This role is fully on-site and based in Glenrothes, Fife (Scotland).

Applicants must already be based locally or willing to relocate (relocation support available).

Applicants must have valid UK work eligibility. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Due to the nature of the work, candidates must be eligible for UK Security Check (SC) clearance. This typically requires British citizenship and continuous UK residency for the past 5 years.

We are recruiting a Senior Product Test Development Engineer to join a high-growth engineering team delivering advanced electronic test solutions for critical defence and aerospace programmes.

This is a hands-on, senior technical role for someone who can own the full test lifecycle from requirements and architecture through design, build, verification, production handover, and long-term support.

You’ll work on technologies that support Control Actuation Systems, Guidance Electronics, and cutting-edge GPS Anti-Jamming systems, operating across land, sea, air, and space domains.

The role is software-heavy with strong hardware exposure, ideal for engineers with deep electronics test development experience and a passion for lab-based, card-level and system-level testing.

• Design, develop, verify, and validate functional test equipment at card, sub-system, and system level
• Own the end-to-end test development process
• Work extensively in a laboratory environment, debugging complex electronic and mixed-signal systems
• Develop and maintain test software, supporting hardware/software integration
• Lead fault finding, root cause analysis, and failure investigation, feeding recommendations back to design teams
• Support production through issue resolution, yield improvement, and obsolescence management
• Collaborate across hardware, software, and systems engineering disciplines
• Participate in customer-facing activities, including engagement with US-based customers
• Lead design reviews and produce high-quality technical documentation
• Act as a technical mentor and senior escalation point for junior engineers

• Strong background in electronic engineering test solutions
• Excellent knowledge of analogue and digital electronic circuit design
• Proven experience designing and supporting electronic test equipment
• Strong hardware troubleshooting and fault-finding capability
• Experience developing test software for automated or semi-automated test systems
• Experience supporting system integration and bring-up
• Proven experience handing designs into production environments
• Comfortable working fully on-site in a secure engineering environment

• Significant industry test development experience
• Experience testing electronic cards / CCAs
• Background in defence, aerospace, or automotive environments
• Understanding of PXI / LXI test architectures
• Experience with NI LabVIEW, NI CVI, NI TestStand, or C#
• Understanding of measurement uncertainty and validation techniques
• Exposure to GPS, RF electronics, or high-speed serial interfaces
• Knowledge of power supply design
• Experience using Mentor Graphics schematic capture and PCB layout tools

• £70,000 base salary
• £7,500 welcome / joining bonus
• Relocation support available
• Excellent pension scheme (up to 10.5% employer contribution)
• 37-hour working week with early finish Fridays or compressed hours
• 25 days holiday + public holidays (buy/sell options available)
• Discretionary company bonus
• Life assurance (6× salary)
• Flexible benefits including healthcare, dental, and cycle-to-work schemes
• Enhanced sick pay and family-friendly policies
• Long-term career progression in a rapidly growing, high-impact engineering team

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Glenrothes

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

05-02-2026

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English