Design & Test Engineer – Space Systems

Overview

As a Design & Test Engineer, you will design and build complex engineering hardware and the test solutions that validate it. You will drive end-to-end activities from requirements to test results, developing rigs, fixtures, and instrumentation while analyzing data to understand hardware performance. You’ll work hands-on across design, integration, and commissioning, collaborating with mechanical, electrical, controls and systems engineers. This role offers exposure to the full engineering lifecycle and a direct impact on hardware readiness for demanding environments. You will contribute to robust test procedures and documentation, feeding findings back into future designs to improve quality.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop complex engineering hardware and test solutions
• Plan and execute functional and performance testing
• Develop test rigs, fixtures and test equipment
• Instrumentation, sensors and data acquisition
• Hardware assembly, integration and commissioning
• Analyze test results and investigate failures
• Root-cause analysis and engineering problem solving
• Feed test findings back into future designs
• Produce test procedures, reports and engineering documentation
• Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, controls and systems engineers

Key requirements

• Design, development, test or validation engineering
• Mechanical or electromechanical hardware
• Engineering test rigs and instrumentation
• Sensors and data acquisition systems
• Mechanical design/CAD
• Pressure, temperature, flow, vibration or environmental testing
• LabVIEW, PLC, SCADA or test automation
• Aerospace, defence, automotive, energy or other complex engineering environments
• space-sector experience is advantageous but not essential
• hands-on design and test capability

• hands-on mindset
• team collaboration
• analytical thinking
• Mechanical or electromechanical hardware
• Engineering test rigs and instrumentation
• Sensors and data acquisition systems

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