Electrical AIT Engineer - Contract (12mths) to Permanent

My client, a market leader in their sector are looking to recruit an Electrical AIT Engineer to join our client based in Zurich for an initial 12 month contract (With the possibility to go permanent at the end of this period).

The role can be described as follows:

Role / Responsibilities:

• Defining test setups for electrical applications, using both commercial test equipment and/or custom-designed test equipment
• Assist for the definition, design, build and testing of custom test equipment and test electrical harnesses (Ground Support Equipment “GSE”) needed to operate the test item
• Writing Test Plans, AIT Plans, test procedures and test reports to ECSS quality standards
• Testing of the performance of the electronics test item (equipment) and of the system to achieve defined requirements (at both board level, equipment level and system level)
• Handling of requirements verification by test
• Implement automated testing using Python-based software to interface with custom-designed and commercial test equipment and the Device Under Test (DUT)
• Coordinate with the design team and the Solution Architects (System Engineers) for all aspects of testing
• Definition and performing thermal tests (thermal vacuum and/or nitrogen gas environment thermal tests)
• Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) testing to ECSS standards
• Participation in mechanical testing (vibration and mechanical shock testing) for the electronics equipment item
• Involvement with non-conformance activities (failure and root cause investigations, repairs etc.)

Skills / Experience:

• Degree in electrical engineering, mechatronics, or equivalent
• Work experience in space or aerospace industry is a plus
• Handling and testing electronics hardware equipment
• Thermal and Mechanical testing experience to ECSS standards
• EMC testing to ECSS standards
• Board testing at component level using electronic probing test equipment in combination with oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers, dynamic signal analysers etc.
• Experience with system (hardware, firmware and software) de-bugging, verification and validation
• Experience with data acquisition, remote operation of test equipment and collecting measurements from standard electronics test equipment (power supplies, oscilloscopes, function generators, spectrum analysers etc.) with test software