Production Test Engineer

Salary: £55,000 - 95,000 per year

Requirements:

• Several years of experience developing production test solutions in an electronics manufacturing environment, including LabVIEW-based automated test systems.
• Experience with electronics testing, test jig development, fault diagnosis, and troubleshooting to component level.
• A positive, organised, and adaptable team player with excellent communication skills and a methodical approach to problem solving.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of our products.
• Design, maintain, and optimise production test equipment.
• Develop innovative automated test solutions that support new product introduction and ongoing manufacturing operations.
• Develop, deploy, and maintain production test systems for both new and existing hardware products using LabVIEW and JTAG Boundary Scan technologies.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary project teams to deliver the product development roadmap.
• Design, build, and validate in-house test equipment for our product range.
• Support manufacturing operations by investigating production faults, diagnosing root causes, and resolving issues through component-level fault finding and analysis.
• Translate technical requirements and design briefs into practical, effective testing and engineering solutions.
• Create and maintain clear technical documentation to support product development, testing activities, and manufacturing processes.
• Manage assigned projects and tasks to ensure delivery within agreed timescales, budgets, and quality standards.

Technologies:

• Hardware
• Support

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We are Paxton, a global brand with nearly 40 years of experience and a team of over 400 employees around the world. We are innovators focused on using new technology to create better solutions for our customers, and we pride ourselves on a vibrant culture with strong emphasis on career progression, training and development, and recognition of achievement. Our Brighton-based Hardware Test team works on ensuring product quality from development through manufacture, while enjoying excellent benefits including a busy social calendar, private medical insurance options, a healthcare cash-back plan, modern offices, collaboration spaces, an onsite mini-gym, a subsidised gourmet café, discounted fitness memberships, loan schemes, 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays, and the opportunity to join collaborative internal groups. We are also a carbon neutral company in the UK, France, Germany, and South Africa, and are recognised as one of the Best Companies to Work for in the UK.

last updated 38 week of 2026