Senior Systems Engineer

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Northampton, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 70K

Job location

Northampton, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Systems Engineering
Systems Architecture

Job description

Join a specialist engineering and technology company delivering cutting-edge products to support UK defence and homeland security customers. With demand increasing and several exciting programmes in play, they're looking to add a Senior Systems Engineer to their growing team. You'll take ownership of the technical delivery across a range of secure, mission-critical systems. What you'll be doing:

  • Leading the architecture, requirements capture, design and verification of bespoke, secure systems
  • Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to define systems for both new and existing defence programmes
  • Creating high-quality documentation and system-level design artefacts
  • Supporting the full product development lifecycle
  • Acting as a key technical voice in project delivery, helping to shape future system capability

Requirements

  • A background in Systems Engineering, ideally with 5+ years' experience
  • Experience across the full development lifecycle
  • Ability to lead on architecture, integration and verification
  • Confident in producing structured documentation
  • A British citizen (or eligible) for SC clearance, Secure Communications, Systems Engineering, SC, System Architecture, Tactical Communication, Radio Frequency, RF, Critical Systems, NSD

Benefits & conditions

  • Secure communications, RF Systems, Datalinks or Verification tooling
  • MOD or defence customers
  • Other complex, safety or security critical systems

What's in it for you:

  • £60,000-£65,000 salary + bonus
  • 25 days holiday (with option to buy more)
  • Company pension & life cover
  • Hybrid working (3 days onsite)
  • 40-hour week
  • The chance to work on projects that genuinely impact national security

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