Senior Systems Engineer

Using your Systems engineering background, you can make an immediate impact on current programmes of work with my client. Your experience as a Senior Systems Engineer will help you to cover the full development cycle of design and manufacture of active and passive avionics antennas and electronic control systems for military and civil communications, navigation and search and rescue applications.

You will have the opportunity to work alongside leading thinkers in the industry at a company known as a leading global technology and services innovator working on market leading products including Microwave, RF antenna and Electronic Design. A corporate benefits package and transparent career development opportunities are on offer within this vibrant Engineering environment.

About the job:

They currently require a Senior Systems Engineer who will be working within a team of hardware and software design engineers, programme managers, and other supporting functions, to deliver project specific goals. This would typically cover the full development cycle from requirements capture, system level design, concept development, simulation, prototyping, build, through to verification and production handover. Their production facility is on-site and they are proud to be supporting British manufacturing.

About you:

As a Senior Systems Engineer your skills and qualifications will ideally include:
Essential Experience
*Development of aircraft products, particulary RF electronics technology, designed to meet airborne standards, certifications and regulations, such as ARINC, RTCA or EASA
*Communications systems, technology, protocols and standards, for example, 3GPP LTE
*Air-to-ground radio systems, technology and issues
*Specfic Systems Engineering methods, such as use case modelling, state diagrams or UML
*Use of a requirements management tool such as DOORS, to perform system requirements validation, decomposition with traceability or to manage the verification of the requirements through a full product lifecycle
*Engineering management techniques such as scheduling, cost estimation or risk analysis
*System simulation and signal processing, for example Matlab
*Use of RF test equipment
*Design, coding, debugging, testing and maintenance of software, ideally for embedded applications encompassing low-level hardware interface code or higher level software designs running within an embedded operating system environment.
*Familiarity with electronic and mechanical CAD packages, such as Altium and Solidworks
*Relevant systems engineering disciplines, including configuration management, control engineering, interface control design, reliability engineering, safety engineering, security engineering

Skill Set / Qualifications
*Team working ability, with good interpersonal skills and commitment to project success and drive to deliver on time
*Several years of relevant Systems Engineering design experience
*Experience in devolving a system requirement to a set of hardware and/or software subsystems described by architectural diagrams and interface descriptions
*Breadth of understanding across other engineering domains, including RF, electrical, mechanical, software
*Capable of delivering Work Packages within the constraints of schedule, cost and quality under minimal supervision.
*Able to technically mentor and instruct Engineers, who are assigned to support you in the execution of your Work Packages.
*Able to communicate technical issues clearly to non-technical audiences
*An education to degree level or equivalent in equivalent in an engineering or engineering related discipline
*All applicants must have or be able to obtain Security Clearance.

Senior Systems Engineer
Marlow OR Leatherhead
Permanent
Salary negotiable

Keywords: Systems Engineer, RF, Requirements, DOORS, Project Management, Systems Design, Mechanical, Electrical, Analogue, Digital, Wireless, BOM, Network / Spectrum Analyzer.

Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time.

Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to sole British Citizens. Applicants who meet this criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, if not already security cleared to a minimum SC level.

This is a permanent position.

Electus Recruitment Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.