ATE Technical Lead

ATE Technical Lead

The R&D ATE team is looking for an ATE Technical Lead to lead the development, deployment, and lifecycle ownership of Automated Test Equipment for a product line.

This role combines hands‑on technical leadership, multidisciplinary project execution, production‑line support, and close collaboration with internal engineering teams and external manufacturing partners. The position on offer is a temporary contract role for 2 years offering hybrid working (3 days onsite and 2 days from home) with an hourly rate of 21.54 - 34.62 depending on experience, plus 25 days holiday pro rata per annum.

The ATE Technical Lead will define test strategies, guide tester architecture decisions, lead tester bring‑up, improve production quality and yield, and support scalable ATE implementation across manufacturing environments.

The role includes close day‑to‑day cooperation with Taiwanese Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO), including technical alignment, issue resolution, documentation transfer, production readiness, and coordination across time zones.

Join our client to work in a dynamic R&D environment that combines hardware, software, data, manufacturing, and connected‑device expertise, while leading mission‑critical testing platforms that directly influence product quality and operational excellence.

This is a great opportunity to Join as they build the team that will develop and deliver our future generations of Vence Collar. A product rich in technological challenges across the multidisciplinary domains with its advanced system architecture and connectivity. You will experience the success of your work in customers hands with short delivery cycles and quick customer feedback.

The responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Lead the architecture, development, validation, deployment, and lifecycle management of ATE systems for a product line.
• Own the ATE technical roadmap, ensuring maintainability, standardisation, scalability, and alignment with product and production needs.
• Define tester requirements, test strategies, integration plans, acceptance criteria, documentation packages, and production transfer plans.
• Lead tester bring‑up and integration across mechanical, electronic, embedded, software, fixture, instrumentation, and production interfaces.
• Manage ATE project execution end‑to‑end, including requirements, design reviews, gate approvals, planning, scheduling, risk management, and stakeholder communication.
• Work closely with CMOs to support production readiness, tester deployment, issue escalation, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement across time zones.
• Coordinate technical activities with hardware, software, embedded, mechanical, operations, manufacturing engineering, quality, and external subcontractors.
• Provide Tier 2 and technical‑lead support for production ATE systems, including troubleshooting, calibration, failure analysis, reliability improvement, and yield optimisation.
• Analyze test and manufacturing data to identify trends, root causes, yield improvements, and opportunities for process optimisation.

• Collaborate with multidisciplinary product and platform teams in the UK, Israel and California, USA.

The position requires multidisciplinary understanding, strong hands‑on technical capabilities, and the ability to work effectively in a multi‑site matrix organisation. The candidate should be comfortable leading technical topics while working closely with system engineers, hardware engineers, embedded software developers, mechanical engineers, production teams, quality teams, subcontractors, and CMOs.

Skills & Characteristics:

• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to lead complex…