The candidate should meet the following requirements
Job Description
Role Description
The ideal candidate will have
Test Team Lead
South Cambridgeshire | 5 days On-site
Up to £50k + benefits
Are you an experienced hardware test engineer who wants to start their journey towards management? Maybe you're already seen as a team mentor?
We are on the look-out for a hands-on Lead Test & Reliability Engineer to join a well-established UK engineering business designing and manufacturing sensor products used globally in safety-critical applications.
This role sits at the heart of product development. You’ll lead reliability, verification, and validation testing across both existing and next-generation hardware, while staying close to the lab and the detail. It’s a mix of technical leadership, practical testing, and problem solving.
The role
1. Lead and coordinate reliability, verification, and validation activities
2. Design and execute environmental, lifetime, and system-level tests
3. Develop test plans, methods, and clear technical reports
4. Carry out failure analysis and reliability investigations
5. Design and maintain bespoke test rigs and infrastructure
6. Use Python to control test equipment, analyse data, and visualise results
7. Work closely with R&D, product development, manufacturing, and quality
8. Manage test priorities and internal resources
Essential skills
9. Degree or HND in a relevant STEM subject (or equivalent experience)
10. Experience in a product development or manufacturing environment
11. Strong understanding of reliability, environmental, and lifetime testing
12. Systems reliability experience (hardware and firmware)
13. Confident working hands-on with lab equipment
14. Experience scripting in Python, LabVIEW, or similar
Nice to have's
15. Statistical analysis or reliability data analysis experience
16. Exposure to formal quality systems or Six Sigma
17. Knowledge of gas sensing, VOCs, or analytical instrumentation
Keen to express your interest, or find out more?
Option 1: Click apply (we’ll always talk before anything goes forward)
Option 2: Drop me a message on LinkedIn (Rachel Bush – SoCode Recruitment)