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. 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