ATE Test Engineer - Contract

Job Title: ATE Test Engineer (Hardware + LabVIEW) - Contract - Outside IR35 Salary: Up to 55 per hour Job Type: Contract, 3 months initially Location: Gatwick - Hybrid Sector: Engineering / Test & Measurement / Electronics

We're recruiting on behalf of a client for a Contract ATE Test Engineer to build, integrate and bring a production final test station into service for a controller product line. This is a genuinely hands-on role - you'll be assembling and wiring the rack, integrating the fixture, and developing/debugging the LabVIEW test application that runs on it, so it suits someone equally happy with a screwdriver and a soldering iron as with LabVIEW code.

Responsibilities:

• Assembling and commissioning a production ATE rack - power supplies, industrial PC, touchscreen HMI, measurement and switching hardware, safety hardware

• Integrating barcode scanner, fixture interfaces, DUT connection harnesses and test accessories

• Cable routing, labelling, continuity and insulation checks, basic electrical verification

• Fitting and aligning the test fixture - pin mapping, mechanical interface checks, design-for-maintenance improvements

• Developing and debugging the LabVIEW production test application - serial number scanning, product ID, config detection, sequence control, pass/fail logic, diagnostics and operator prompts

• Implementing test data logging, results storage and production reporting; supporting executable build and release

• Covering digital I/O, relay outputs, analogue inputs, and comms testing (Ethernet, RS232, RS485, CAN)

• Debugging integration issues, reducing false failures, and supporting pilot builds through to manufacturing handover Requirements:

• Automated test equipment development experience

• Strong National Instruments LabVIEW development skills

• Hands-on electrical hardware debug and test instrumentation experience

• Experience integrating power supplies, DAQ, switching, measurement equipment and production fixtures

• Comfortable working independently on-site with production and engineering teams

• Clear documentation and structured fault-finding approach Contract details: Up to 55 per hour, Outside IR35, Gatwick - Hybrid - ASAP start - 3 months initially