At a Glance
- Tasks: Shape the future of missile systems and lead innovative design projects.
- Company: Join a pioneering defence company focused on strategic growth and collaboration.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive bonus, flexible leave, and enhanced parental options.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities for strategic influence and career advancement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on national security while working with diverse teams.
- Qualifications: Extensive Systems Engineering experience and strong stakeholder engagement skills.
The predicted salary is between 48600 - 59400 £ per year.
Overview
In this role you shape the next generation of missiles and integrated weapon systems, translating ambitious concepts into viable technical scopes.
You’ll operate at the intersection of early design and strategic growth, delivering technically grounded plans for major national and international programs.
You will lead cross-disciplinary activities and steer the technical narrative through creative, high-visibility phases.
This is a chance to influence tomorrow’s capabilities while collaborating with diverse stakeholders and customers.
- Pay / Benefits
- Company bonus up to 2,500
- Pension up to 14% total employer/employee
- Overtime opportunities
- Flexi Leave up to 15 days
- Flexible working arrangements
- Enhanced parental leave options (maternity/adoption/shared parental) and additional leave types
Responsibilities
- Lead concept development and funneling to drive technical down-selection
- Define functional architecture and system-level performance requirements
- Specify missile system capabilities to meet operational needs
- Own technical delivery milestones and translate goals into deliverable plans with SMEs
- Orchestrate customer requirements into structured specifications (CPS, SRS, TRS)
- Engage stakeholders to align technical strategy with business objectives
- Contribute to strategic initiatives across Future Business areas (Deep Strike, Hypersonics, etc)
- Act as a technical integrator bridging customer needs and engineering plans
- Key requirements
- Extensive Systems Engineering experience, especially in early-phase conceptual work
- Experience developing and applying requirements and translating customer needs into specifications
- Ability to engage across disciplines (Physical Architecture, Aerodynamics, Propulsion, Guidance, Navigation)
- Comfort with Sales/Business Development and strategic direction
- Delivery-focused with proactive, positive attitude
- Desirable: technical project management and competitive bidding experience
- Desirable: team and technical leadership skills
- Desirable: ability to develop Functional Architectures and system-level performance requirements
- Desirable: awareness of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
- Stakeholder engagement
- Ambiguity tolerance
- Strategic thinking
- Cross-disciplinary Systems Engineering
- Functional architecture design
- System-level performance specification
Principal Systems Design Engineer - Future Products in Bolton employer: MBDA
MBDA is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic and inclusive work environment that prioritises employee well-being and professional growth. With competitive benefits such as a generous bonus scheme, flexible working arrangements, and enhanced parental leave, employees are supported in achieving a healthy work-life balance while contributing to meaningful projects that defend our freedom. Located in the UK, MBDA fosters a culture of collaboration and innovation, empowering its workforce through various employee-led networks and opportunities for continuous development.
