Job Description
Are you an Electronics Test Automation Engineer with experience enhancing and modernising electronics verification capability?
If yes, I would love to hear from you!
This opportunity sits at the heart of hardware development, focused on transforming hands-on laboratory test procedures into scalable, dependable automated solutions.
This is an automation-first role.
Location: Waterbeach, Cambridge (Fully On-site)
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £50,000 to £65,000
The Role
Working within the Electronics Verification team, you will take responsibility for evolving existing manual hardware test campaigns into streamlined, software-driven processes.
You’ll collaborate closely with electronics, RF, and baseband engineers to validate and characterise new hardware platforms spanning multiple radio technologies.
What You’ll Be Doing:
* Performing hands-on electronics testing on prototype and development-stage hardware.
* Converting structured manual test cases into dependable automated workflows.
* Developing and maintaining Python-based automation frameworks and reusable test libraries.
* Interfacing with lab instruments via SCPI, VISA, serial, USB, and Ethernet protocols.
* Capturing, analysing, and validating measurement data.
* Producing structured reports and improving traceability of results.
* Recording defects and automation progress in Jira.
Essential Skills & Experience:
* Strong proficiency in Python programming.
* Demonstrable experience delivering automation at hardware, integration, or system level.
* Experience controlling laboratory equipment programmatically.
* Solid software engineering discipline, including:
* Version control (Git)
* Structured, maintainable code
* Logging and debugging practices
* Ability to methodically interpret manual test documentation and translate it into automation logic.
* Comfortable operating in a lab-based, hardware-focused environment.
Desirable Experience:
* Exposure to embedded systems or electronics verification.
* Familiarity with LTE, TETRA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or GNSS technologies.
* Experience with RF measurement or radio systems.
* Knowledge of Robot Framework or comparable automation frameworks.
* Experience integrating automated tests within CI/CD environments.
* Working knowledge of measurement equipment such as spectrum analysers, oscilloscopes, signal generators, and power supplies.
If this sounds like you, apply now!