At a Glance
- Tasks: Join us in developing cutting-edge systems for military aircraft and shape the future of defence.
- Company: Leonardo, a leader in defence technology with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible working, generous leave, and access to 4,000+ online courses.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with opportunities for mentorship and career growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in defence technology while advancing your career.
- Qualifications: Degree in science or equivalent experience; systems engineering knowledge preferred.
The predicted salary is between 45000 - 58000 £ per year.
Are you looking to advance your career and work on technology that will shape the future of defence? Does working on developing systems for current and future military aircraft sound like a challenge that would be of interest? If you have skills in systems engineering and five years UK residency, we are looking for engineers to join us at Leonardo in Luton in a predominantly office and laboratory-based role.
What you'll do as a Systems Engineer:
- Development of Requirements and Test Plans
- Control of Parts and Documentation, including change management
- Collaboration with multi-functional teams on system and sub-system development
- Work with suppliers, integrators, and users across the UK
Our Systems Engineers work in multidisciplinary teams spanning a range of activities pulling together the necessary engineering and technology strands into a high-performance system, bridging the gap between the theoretically possible and the practically implementable.
Examples of Work:
- Early concept studies investigating the application of new technology on future platforms
- Engaging with stakeholders, defining requirements for a new system
- Conducting cost and functional performance trade-offs and evaluation of proposed solutions
- Enhancing capabilities and performance of in-service systems
- Designing and integrating new functionality into an existing system
- Modelling a system to understand observed simulated performance
- Development of capability within limitations and constraints of the target hardware
- Root-cause analysis of anomalies observed during integration or evaluation activities
- Designing and conducting testing and trials to prove equipment function and performance
- Opportunities to lead technical activities and initiatives
- Mentoring and coaching other engineers
- Creating and delivering reports, presentations and proposals to customers and industry partners
- Supporting knowledge sharing and exploitation of good practice
What you'll bring:
- A science-based Honours degree or equivalent experience
- Experience or a desire to gain electronic warfare domain knowledge
- Knowledge of the systems engineering lifecycle, particularly in the following areas:
- Problem definition
- Requirements engineering, including the use of IBM DOORS
- Systems Architecture
- Synthetic Environments
- Systems Modelling and Analysis
- Integration
- Verification and Validation
- Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
- It would be desirable if you had experience from some of the following:
- Experience of working with related specialisms such as safety, security, airworthiness or reliability
- Domain-specialist knowledge such as:
- Digital signal processing
- RF systems
- Multi-sensor data fusion and tracking
- Real time data simulation/generation
- Military Electronic systems
- Data analysis using AI or Machine Learning
- Operational Experience in Electronic Intelligence or Electronic Warfare
Security Clearance: This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government's Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), along with an additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV), including meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV). Due to the nature of the work and its connections to UK Defence strategy, applicants must have five years UK Residency and hold a UK Passport.
Salary Range: Senior Engineer £45,000 to £58,000. Leonardo UK operates a grade-based salary framework with broad bands. The salary range shown reflects the approved grade band for this role, or a narrower hiring range published within that band, and is benchmarked against the external market.
Why join us:
- Enjoy generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi-days each year.
- Benefit from our award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
- Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee-led networks championing inclusion and diversity.
- All employees at management level and below are eligible for our bonus scheme.
- Free access to 4,000+ online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn Learning.
- Receive a financial reward through our referral programme.
- Spend up to £500 annually on flexible benefits including private healthcare, dental, family cover, tech & lifestyle discounts, gym memberships and more.
- Flexible hours with hybrid working options.
For a full list of our company benefits please visit our website.
Primary Location: GB - Luton - Cap. Green 300
Contract Type: Permanent
Hybrid Working: Onsite
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