Test and Validation Engineer

Company Overview At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future. Department Overview CRFS, a Motorola Solutions company, is a global pioneer in advanced radio frequency (RF) technology, specializing in cutting-edge spectrum monitoring, geolocation, and electronic warfare solutions. Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, we design and build high-performance hardware and software—such as our industry-leading RFeye ecosystem—that empowers military forces, national security agencies, and spectrum regulators to detect, analyze, and exploit RF signals in the world's most complex environments. When you join our team, you’re directly contributing to the technologies that ensure spectrum dominance, protect critical infrastructure, and safeguard global communications. CRFS is seeking a highly capable and practical Test and Validation Engineer (RF Systems) to lead and support the verification and validation of RF systems through prototype, development, and New Product Introduction (NPI). This role sits within the Systems Engineering team and works closely with Senior Systems Engineers, Hardware, RF, Embedded Software, Applications Software, Mechanical Design, Production, and Project Engineering teams to ensure systems are tested appropriately, risks are retired early, and products are released with the right level of confidence. The Test and Validation Engineer is responsible for defining and executing system-level test and validation activities in both lab and field environments. The role must balance structured V-model verification practice with rapid fail-fast prototype testing, ensuring that testing supports delivery rather than becoming a late-stage gate or bottleneck. This role is not limited to hardware test. It covers the end-to-end system, including hardware, software, RF, mechanical integration, environmental performance, and production readiness. Job Description Verification and Validation Strategy: Develop and execute test plans for hardware components and systems. Define and maintain system-level verification and validation plans for RF systems across development programmes. Work with Senior Systems Engineers and project teams to ensure validation activities are considered early in development and aligned with system requirements. Support a V-model approach, ensuring requirements, interfaces, and acceptance criteria are traceable to appropriate verification activities. Apply a risk-based approach to test planning, balancing rigour with delivery speed. Prototype and Development Testing: Plan and execute test activities for prototype and development systems in lab and field environments. Support rapid prototype iterations by identifying issues early, capturing evidence clearly, and feeding results back into design decisions. Conduct functional, performance, stress, integration, and system-level testing as appropriate to the maturity and intent of the design. Support fault-finding and root cause investigation across hardware, RF, mechanical, embedded, and applications domains. System Integration and Validation: Validate complete systems to ensure that integrated hardware, RF, software, and mechanical elements perform as intended. Work closely with system pod leads to confirm system readiness at key development stages. Identify emergent system-level issues that are not visible within individual disciplines. Test Infrastructure, Tooling, and Repeatability: Develop, improve, and maintain test methods, test rigs, fixtures, and procedures to support repeatable and efficient validatio ... (truncated, view full listing at source)