Senior Systems Enginer -MBSE

Its great to know you’re making a difference to the future of aviation. Whatever part you play you’ll be helping us deliver operational excellence to our customers. At our Bristol Global Technology Centre, we specialise in the research and development of the future of powered flight.

We have a new exciting and career defining opportunity for a Senior Engineer Systems Engineering to join our growing Aircraft Systems Engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of the green revolution in aviation, a project that aligns with our company mission, “To be the most Trusted and Sustainable Partner in the Sky.” You will report to the Principal Research Engineer for Systems Engineering and be responsible for systems engineering from requirements elucidation, development, specification and test definition, including integration. This role will be based at our Bristol GTC, however travel will be expected including occasional international.

How You’ll Contribute

• The Engineer shall draw on their engineering background and product lifecycle awareness to progress a variety of research activities in the TRL1‑6 range.
• They must have sound experience in technical working and risk management.
• They shall be committed to development of their own skills and professional network.
• Their good communication skills shall enable them to confidently engage with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• Responsible for defining and developing requirements and turning them into a feasible solution.
• Responsible for developing functions, systems, items and components.
• Use and develop model based systems engineering (MBSE) techniques for requirements and architecture creation.
• Define approaches to system verification and communicate these to specialist domain teams.
• Work with the systems architects, mechanical systems engineers and system simulation engineers to ensure that the system requirements are achieved.
• Anticipate and manage transversal technical and business issues.
• Generate technical reports and present findings.
• Develop specification documents and procedures for new products before launched into manufacturing.
• Ensure configuration management is in place for the systems and all of its components from requirement through to operation.
• Provide general technical feedback on the design and development of mechanical and electrical sub‑systems.

What You’ll Bring

• Essential: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Experience in requirements engineering and management of requirements across all project lifecycle stages.
• Experience in systems engineering applied to concept and/or product development, ideally in aerospace.
• Experience working in a safety critical system development.
• Experience in MBSE (e.g., SysML), functional decomposition and performing architectural system level studies, e.g., ANSYS SCADE.
• Experience in functional and physical system development.
• Experience in safety assessment and compliance planning, including FTA and FMEA, e.g., ANSYS Medini.
• Experience in developing verification cases for sub‑systems and development.
• Experience in applying systems engineering techniques within an R&T project.
• Experience in associated international standards, design practices, certification requirements and means of compliance as well as in service issues.

We are looking for people who want to make a difference, talented members with the skills and passions to become the best of the future in what they do. You will have the ability to work autonomously and also part of a wider team.

What We’ll Offer

• Competitive salary dependent on experience.
• Company bonus based on company and personal performance.
• Industry leading pension scheme with 1:1.5 match on contributions up to 12%.
• Life assurance 8× salary.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• Flexible working hours including the ability to finish at 12 noon on a Friday.
• Income protection.
• Shopping discounts.
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Virtual GP clinic for you and immediate family.
• A collaborative, dynamic working environment.