Test Engineer

Best Selection; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Test Engineer to join their R&D department in Cambridge. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in testing and developing optical products, requiring a strong background in optics and practical experience in mechanical assembly. This position offers the opportunity to work closely with R&D physicists and contribute to the advancement of innovative optical systems.

Qualifications

• Good knowledge of optics required.
• Experimental background desirable.
• Practical experience in mechanical assembly.

Responsibilities

• Assemble, test, analyse, and report on new opto-mechanical product developments.
• Create and establish test setups, prepare test specifications and documentation.
• Carry out production test activities on complex optical systems.

Skills

Optics

Data analysis

Mechanical assembly

Education

Qualification in physics or related discipline

Tools

Matlab

Visual Studio

Python

Job description

Test Engineer

We are currently looking for a test engineer to join an R&D department, based at our client's Cambridge office.

The successful candidate will be central to enabling continued R&D test and development activities and the transfer of the tested products into a production environment. This role would be well suited to a hands-on individual who has knowledge of the fundamentals of optics as well as data capture and analysis techniques.

Key responsibilities

• Work with the R&D Physicist to assemble, test, analyse, and report on new opto-mechanical product developments.
• Create and establish test setups, prepare test specifications and documentation.
• Leverage understanding of optical systems to make suggestions for the improvement of new optical based products and subsystems.
• Help to design, implement and sustain production testing fixtures and methods.
• Help to carry out production test activities on complex optical systems, in line with requirements and procedures developed with the help of other R&D personnel and applications specialists.
• Work to understand and address production issues related to opto-mechanical assemblies.

Core skills and experience:

• A good knowledge of optics is required and a qualification in physics or a related discipline would be beneficial.
• An experimental background is desirable.
• Practical experience in mechanical assembly is required.
• A base knowledge of computer-based data collection methods and hardware is desirable (e.g. matlab, visual studio, python).
• A basic knowledge of fundamental mechanical design would be beneficial