Ate Technical Lead

Orion Group Life Sciences are currently recruiting an ATE Technical Lead on behalf of our Multinational Biopharmaceutical Client based in Cambourne on an initial 2-Year contract. 3 days per week onsite – hybrid role. Role Functions Lead the architecture, development, validation, deployment, and lifecycle management of ATE systems for a product line. Own the ATE technical roadmap, ensuring maintainability, standardization, 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 optimization. Analyze test and manufacturing data to identify trends, root causes, yield improvements, and opportunities for process optimization. Collaborate with multidisciplinary product and platform teams in the UK, Israel and California, USA. Requirements: Sc. or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field. Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in ATE system integration, development, validation, deployment, and production support. Proven experience leading technical projects in a multidisciplinary engineering or manufacturing environment. Strong hands-on expertise with hardware systems, embedded interfaces, networks, instrumentation, debugging, and system-level integration. Strong hands-on experience with National Instruments TestStand, automated test development, hardware integration, and production support environments, or equivalent automated test platforms. Proficiency in Python and test automation development, including debugging, tool creation, data processing, and system integration. Strong analytical skills for test data analysis, failure investigation, process improvement, and yield optimization. Advantage: Experience working with Linux-based systems, command-line tools, and SQL databases in engineering or manufacturing environments. Experience with manufacturing databases, production data pipelines, and engineering data analysis tools. Experience with hardware communication protocols such as I2C, SPI, UART, Ethernet, or similar embedded and instrumentation interfaces. Experience with automated instrumentation, fixture design considerations, tester safety, calibration, and production maintainability. Knowledge of server, platform, and test-station management in production environments. Experience working with subcontractors, external vendors, CMO production teams, and procurement processes for tester or prototype parts. People are our business worldwide Orion Group was founded in 1987 and is now one of the largest, independent, international recruitment companies. We have a network of 200 employees working from 24 offices, delivering a range of services – Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Outsourcing Services, Retained Search, Global Workforce Solutions, Completions & Commissioning and Materials Management – across 68 countries. As a global leader in workforce solutions, we recruit personnel across the Engineering & Technical, Office & Commercial, Scientific and Skilled Trades disciplines, for sectors including Oil & Gas, Life Science, Power & Utilities, Constructions & Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Renewables.