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# Senior Systems Engineer (full time or part time)

- **Company:** Aeropeople's Expertise
- **Location:** Rochester, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Systems Engineering, Cyber Security, MATLAB, Systems Development Life Cycle, Requirements Management, Simulink, Systems Modeling Language, Real Time Systems, SC Clearance, Modeling and Simulation, Polarion
- **Published:** June 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.apply4u.co.uk/jobs/x/38796486/

## About the Role

Essential:

 * Proven experience developing systems in relevant product markets and/or domains, such as control systems, real time displays or other safety related systems, containing multiple technical disciplines such as electronics, mechanics, optics and/or software

 * Proven experience in requirements management, design analyses, modelling and simulation, using tools such as DOORS, Siemens Polarion, Enterprise Architect, MATLAB and/or Simulink and design methodologies such as SysML

 * A degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant Scientific/Engineering subject (e.g., Systems Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Physics or Mathematics)

Desirable:

 * Experience in integration, test, and verification of real time and/or safety related systems, with understanding of safety assessment processes including how these processes influence the design

 * Customer and/or supplier liaison experience for technical aspects, verifying and obtaining agreement that customer needs are satisfied

 * An understanding of information assurance, cyber security and environmental impact aspects relating to real time embedded engineering products

You must be eligible to apply for SC clearance and, therefore, must hold a British passport and have lived and worked in the UK for the past 5 years

## Description

Joining the Systems Engineering team, you will be part of the development and supply of products across a diverse mix of commercial and military platforms; Head Up and Head Worn Displays, Safety Critical Pilot Control and Flight Control Systems. Their Systems Engineers are encouraged to gain a breadth of knowledge across these domains to become subject matter experts in one or more product domain, or systems engineering specialism.

Main Responsibilities:

 * Understanding our customers' complex needs and collaborating to develop, validate and manage requirements at multiple levels

 * Developing complex system architectures and sub-systems using a Model Based Systems Engineering approach

 * Integration, analysis and test of real time systems containing multiple technical disciplines such as electronic, mechanical, optical and software sub-systems

 * Taking accountability for collaborative technical work package execution and associated outcomes

 * Providing guidance, coaching and nurturing talent in other engineers

 * Verifying that customer needs are satisfied

 * Steering new and improved systems development through implementation whilst making use of best practice systems lifecycle processes alongside techniques such as Learn First and Agile


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