Rate: Up to £55 per hour - Outside IR35
Contract length: 3 months initially
Location: Gatwick - Hybrid
We're recruiting on behalf of a client for a Contract LabVIEW Software Engineer to review, improve and productionise an existing final test application for a thermal management controller product. The test rack is already built. This is a software first engagement focused on getting the LabVIEW application, sequence reliability and logging into a robust, manufacturing-ready state.
Responsibilities:
Reviewing an existing LabVIEW final test application for structure, maintainability and production usability
Improving test sequence flow, operator prompts, error handling and fault isolation messaging
Reviewing/improving comms handling - bootloader/application checks, controller communications, status verification
Improving logging for serial number, software version, config data, results and failure reasons (full traceability)
Creating/updating the LabVIEW executable deployment package and documenting the release baseline
Supporting hardware and fixture debug alongside the software work where needed, and supporting pilot production runsRequirements:
Strong, hands-on National Instruments LabVIEW development/debugging experience
Experience with industrial automated final test equipment
A track record of improving existing test software, not just building new applications from scratch
Comfortable with Ethernet, USB/FTDI, command/response interfaces and automated logging
Structured, documentation-led approach to issue management and handoverDesirable: three-phase powered equipment test experience, load banks/thermocouple simulators/DMMs, thermal or heater control equipment.
Contract details: Up to £55 per hour, Outside IR35 - Gatwick - Hybrid - ASAP start - 3 months initially
Salary description
£50.00 - £55.00 per hour