Test Development Engineer (electronics)

Company: Frontier Resourcing
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Location: Edinburgh
Job Description:

Test Development Engineer – Excellent salary package and welcome joining bonus!

Frontier Resourcing are partnering with a leading defence and national security organisation developing cutting-edge aerospace technologies.

This is an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of R&D, designing and developing advanced test solutions for complex electronic systems.

The Opportunity

You’ll take ownership of the design, verification, validation, and lifecycle support of test equipment across board, subsystem, and system level products.

Working within a highly technical engineering environment, you’ll collaborate across disciplines to deliver robust, scalable test solutions for mission-critical technologies.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Designing and developing functional test equipment
  • Supporting hardware/software integration and troubleshooting
  • Providing production and lifecycle support, including obsolescence management
  • Leading design reviews and producing high-quality technical documentation
  • Driving test solution development from concept through to production handover

What We’re Looking For

  • Strong experience developing test solutions (not just executing test programmes)
  • Excellent analogue and digital electronics knowledge
  • Hardware debugging and system integration expertise
  • Experience producing technical design documentation
  • Test software development experience

Desirable Skills

  • PXI / LXI test architectures
  • NI LabVIEW, TestStand, CVI or C#
  • Mentor Graphics schematic and PCB tools
  • Mixed-signal circuit design
  • Measurement uncertainty knowledge

What’s On Offer

  • Excellent salary and benefits package
  • Generous welcome bonus when you start
  • Work on cutting-edge aerospace and defence technologies
  • Long 3-day weekend every week with a condensed Monday–Thursday schedule
  • Collaborative, highly technical engineering environment

Please note: BPSS clearance is required, including 3 years UK residency and referencing.

Posted: May 23rd, 2026