Associate Engineer - Verification and Test in Chelmsford

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research. We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.

Teledyne e2v in Chelmsford is the largest commercial employer in the City of Chelmsford, employing over 850 people in Essex. The site generates world‑leading technology critical for humankind, including vital components for radiotherapy machines and the imaging devices used in groundbreaking space missions. Teledyne e2v is undergoing a profound and positive transformation. We are a growing business, making significant investments in our capabilities and facilities. Teledyne employs approximately 11,000 people worldwide and our Chelmsford facility is one of the largest within the group, hosting multiple business units and functions.

Working across all stages of Space and Science projects for imaging detectors and sub‑systems, the Product Verification & Test Engineer takes responsibility whenever a customer requirement needs to be verified or tested. This covers a wide range of hands‑on, clean‑room, and office‑based engineering tasks relating to commissioning, testing and verifying functional, electrical, mechanical and environmental requirements on image detector, sub‑system and system level projects. Product Verification & Test Engineers work closely with their project teams and manufacturing to deliver high quality imaging detectors and sub‑systems that meet demanding customer specifications.

Responsibilities

• Work as a key member of the project team, with the Project manager, Project Lead Engineer and Product Assurance Engineer to deliver fully tested and verified systems.
• Produce and implement test and verification plans flowing down from system level requirements for the various stages of development.
• Plan, commission and perform functional, electrical, mechanical and environmental tests at detector, subsystem and system level.
• Write project documentation including test procedures and test reports.
• Train Operations staff where necessary.
• Provide documentation and present at design, test and project reviews for both internal and external audiences.
• Define requirements for test equipment (GSE).
• Commission test equipment (OGSE, EGSE, MGSE) in accordance with internal and customer specifications, including scripting and coding for automating the test equipment.
• Detector, sub‑system and system verification testing.
• Verification and acceptance testing/screening of Front‑End Electronics and Payload Systems to ECSS standards.
• Perform technical investigations where necessary into failure modes and anomalous results.
• Support teams outside of the Product Verification & Test Team, including Operations and Process Engineering.
• Actively participate in ensuring that quality assurance practices are adhered to and maintained throughout the project lifecycle.
• Support, help to identify, and carry out process improvement activities for both project‑specific and more general processes.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics or related field.
• Previous experience in spaceflight hardware and sub‑system or system AIT for space applications.
• Test planning and scheduling.
• Experience working with verification / validation of requirements.
• Experience of scripting and operation of EGSE systems.
• Good general electrical and electronics background.
• Knowledge of environmental testing of sub‑systems for space.
• Experience of fault finding.
• Experience of engineering lifecycle management and requirements management.

Knowledge and Skills

• Excellent problem‑solving abilities, analysis skills and attention to technical details.
• Excellent at planning and organising.
• Ability to learn quickly.
• Working in and collaborating with multi‑disciplinary teams.
• Good knowledge of MS Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Microsoft Project.
• Proficient in general programming, e.g. MATLAB and Python.
• Excellent communication, presentation and document writing skills.
• Knowledge of Space Standards (i.e. ECSS) preferred.
• Understanding of semiconductor device physics is an advantage.

Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.