Job summary

Our client are a cutting edge manufacturer of high altitude, long endurance UAV platforms seeking a systems engineer to Join their growing team in Alton.

Key skills required for this role

Systems engineering, project engineering, electronics, defence, communications, radio, rf

Important

Systems Engineering experience ideally with aerospace or UAV systems.

Job description

Tasks and Accountabilities
Outline Job Profile

• Work with Systems Engineering team in balancing, adapting and delivering the technical scope of the projects
• Be responsible for elements of the design of UAV systems
• Undertake requirements definition, management and conformance verification
• Undertake modelling and simulation of UAV systems
• Define and coordinate qualification and acceptance test campaigns for UAV systems in accordance with Prismatic Airworthiness plan and Engineering policies
• Support flight-test and evaluation
• Support the CTO and his team to create an inclusive workplace, championing collaboration and innovation.

Qualifications / Experience / Interests
Required

• Degree or equivalent experience in Physics, Engineering or related subject
• Proven experience in a relevant industry
• Experience of working in a dynamic delivery-focussed team, managing tension between specification and delivery

Some of the following may be beneficial

• Experience of novel R&D programs, ideally with challenging 'cutting edge' technology
• Experience of large UAV development
• Experience of RF communications systems
• Experience of UAS avionics hardware systems
• Experience of building vehicles, robots or other complex systems
• Experience of modelling and simulation in MATLAB, Python or similar high-level languages