SENIOR TEST ENGINEER

Women Rock, Inc.; Reading; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite in Reading

Job summary

Tech For Impact in Reading, Berkshire, seeks a Senior Test Engineer to advance test and development for high‑power electrical systems in a defence engineering context.

You will decide testing scope, measurement methods, and instrumentation, collaborating with design engineers to drive hardware iterations and broaden capabilities to motor characterization and dynamometer testing.

Qualifications

• Hands-on test experience with high‑power systems.
• Ability to measure with oscilloscopes, probes, DAQ systems.
• Experience interpreting test data to guide engineering decisions.
• Eligible for UK security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Help build the test capability for power electronics and drives.
• Decide what to test, how to measure it and what equipment to use.
• Work with design engineers using real data to inform hardware iterations.
• Develop the capability to include motor characterization and dyno testing as needed.

Skills

Power electronics

Electrical measurement

Thermal testing

Test data analysis

Test automation

Tools

Python

LabVIEW

Job description

On Site : 1

Contract Rate : 80000.00

Permanent Job : 1

Salary range high : 110000.00

Salary range low : 80000.00

Senior Test Engineer – Power Electronics / Electric Motors

We’re looking for a hands‑on Test Engineer to help build the test and development capability for a growing UK defence engineering business developing high-performance electrical systems.

Rather than simply running existing test procedures, you’ll have the freedom to decide what needs testing, how to measure it and what equipment is needed to do it properly. You’ll work closely with the design engineers, using real test data to influence the next iteration of the hardware.

The initial focus will be power electronics and electric drives, with the opportunity to broaden into motor characterisation, dynamometer testing and wider product verification as the capability grows.

Essential

• Hands-on test, development or characterisation experience across power electronics, electric drives, motors or similar high-power systems
• Electrical measurement using oscilloscopes, current probes, power analysers and/or DAQ equipment
• Experience investigating efficiency, losses, thermal behaviour or electrical performance
• Building or modifying test rigs, fixtures and instrumentation
• Ability to analyse test data and translate results into useful engineering decisions
• Test automation / data acquisition using Python, LabVIEW or similar
• Comfortable working practically with hardware in a laboratory environment
• SC eligible - dual British / NATO nationalities considered

Useful Experience

• Inverters, motor drives or power converters
• Electric motors and dynamometer testing
• Torque, speed, efficiency or thermal mapping
• High-voltage / high-current testing
• Test facility or laboratory development
• Environmental or endurance testingMeasurement uncertainty, calibration and traceability
• Aerospace, defence, automotive, motorsport or other high-performance engineering environments

Additional Information

• Permanent, full-time position
• Competitive salary depending on experience
• Reading based, onsite
• Significant freedom to shape the test capability rather than inherit an established process
• Hands-on position working directly alongside the engineers designing the hardware
• Opportunity to introduce new test equipment, rigs and methodologies
• Scope to develop into technical leadership as the function grows

Company: Tech For Impact

Location: Reading, Berkshire