Senior AIVT Engineer

Be visionary

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.

Job Description

Company Overview

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 ground breaking 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 c 11000 people worldwide and our Chelmsford facility is one of largest within the group, hosting multiple business units and functions.

Teledyne e2v is a global leader in specialised components and subsystems for innovative solutions in medical, science, aerospace, defence and industrial applications. Our products are everywhere, hospitals, planes, ships and even outer space, but you will only see them if you know where to look.

Working with us will enable you to develop and gain experience in the ideas that are behind some of the most advanced technologies in the world. You will also get a chance to work alongside highly experienced engineers, technicians and scientists.

Our products do many things including saving people’s lives by finding and treating cancer, helping map our planet and the universe and freezing the atom down to 0° Kelvin.

With a long and enviable history of technical and scientific innovation, Teledyne e2v is always working at the forefront of technology.

Position Summary and Responsibilities

To support our continued growth, we have an exciting new opportunity for a Senior AIVT Engineer to join our Verification & Test team. The candidate will be given the responsibility of commissioning, testing and verifying functional, electrical, mechanical and environmental requirements on component, sub-system and system level projects.

• 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.
• Lead the AIVT solution on the project for successful delivery of a sub-system or payload for space-based application.
• Produce and implement test and verification plans flowing down from system level requirements for the various stages of development.
• Planning, commissioning and performing functional, electrical, mechanical and environmental tests at subsystem and system level.
• Provide documentation and present at design, test and project reviews for both internal and external audiences.
• Collaborate with project managers to provide inputs to schedules; risk management plans; budget management as required.
• Work with external programme partners to review their AIVT approach.
• Subsystem and system verification testing.
• Managing the availability of test equipment between different projects.
• Defining requirements for test systems (GSE) and set-up and operation of EGSE and MGSE.
• AIT unit and system integration and test.
• Verification and acceptance testing/screening of Front-End Electronics and Payload Systems to ECSS standards.

Experience

• 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 engineering lifecycle management and requirements management.

Knowledge & Skills

• Excellent problem-solving abilities and attention to technical details.
• Excellent at planning and organising.
• 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).

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.

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