Senior Systems Engineer
- Recruiter
- Banner Lane Limited
- Location
-
Farnborough
South East EnglandUnited Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 13 Mar 2023
- Closes
- 10 Apr 2023
- Job Title
- IT Director
- Category
- Engineering
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Our client is a world–leading tactical radio communications and precision approach radar company, operating in the development, manufacture, supply, and field service support of products. The company's last reported turnover is GBP35m with a headcount of approximately 150 personnel. Our client has an engineering department of 14, which is responsible for the through–life support of in–service tactical radio products and the research and development of technologies for future generation products and systems.
Job Summary:
We are seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join our client's Engineering Team based in Farnborough, UK. The successful candidate will contribute to the full life–cycle of tactical radio products and systems, from research and development through to the sustainment and enhancement of existing in–service products.
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintenance of the design for existing tactical radio products (including the development of new features and enhancements)
- Liaison with manufacturing and suppliers for design engineering activities (including support to production and component obsolescence management)
- Developing requirements from customer aspirations and concepts
- Requirements management, producing use cases and high–level specifications
- Allocating requirements and assistance in producing lower level design and technical documentation
- Producing test plans and specifications and analyzing test results
- Preparing for and participating in formal technical reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, etc.)
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience.
- Degree in an electrical, electronic or software engineering related discipline.
- At least six years relevant engineering experience (in a senior systems/software/electronics position) on digital communications projects.
- The position requires the candidate to currently hold or be able to obtain a UK security clearance.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Writing of technical documentation (e.g. specifications, white papers).
- Working in a multi–disciplinary engineering team (especially with system, software and electronics engineers).
- Detailed knowledge and experience of systems engineering practices and techniques.
- Detailed knowledge of real–time embedded systems, Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and related technologies.
- Experience with VHDL and FPGA Design.
- Development of Software Defined Radios and communication waveforms.
- Knowledge of UML (or SysML or similar) and associated tools.
- Computer literate (with good knowledge of Microsoft Office and other desktop applications).
- Understanding of the design lifecycle including requirements, design methodologies, and configuration management.
- Ability to work within a flexible team environment.
- Must be internal and external customer focused.
Please note due to national security reasons we can only accept applications from UK sole nationals who have been born in the United Kingdom.