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# Associate Systems Engineer

- **Company:** Saab
- **Location:** Whiteley, United Kingdom
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** £66,067
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Databases, Network Interface Controllers, Requirements Management, Requirements Traceability, Systems Modeling Language, Systems Architecture, Toolchain, UML
- **Published:** November 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5951525700

## About the Role

Essential:

 * Degree or similar in engineering discipline
 * >2 years' experience in system related role
 * Knowledge of system engineering principles and requirements capture
 * Excellent communication, both written and verbal
 * Good attention to detail

Desirable:

 * UML/SysML design methodologies
 * Experience of black-box system design and interface control methodologies and toolchains
 * Experience of requirements management including validation & verification processes

## Description

This role is part of our Saab Seaeye business unit in Fareham.

As part of the Systems Engineering team, you will develop, maintain, and manage SysML models for product systems, ensuring customer requirements are captured, decomposed, validated, and fully traced throughout the project lifecycle

The requirements will vary from customer-customisation of existing products through to R&D projects for underwater robotics platforms, tooling and equipment. Using your engineering skills and systems engineering knowledge to bridge mechanical, electrical, electronic and software domains to deliver complex products, which meet the customers expectations on-time and on-budget., * Translate customer needs into engineering system solutions via the use of Requirements Capture, Use-Cases and Systems architecture design

 * Develop and maintain SysML models representing system structure, behaviour, interfaces and requirements within requirements management toolset
 * Ensure completed requirements traceability from capture to verification
 * Administer system engineering databases and repositories
 * Maintain the systems architecture design across complex multi-disciplinary product development teams
 * Provide cradle-to-grave systems support throughout the entire project lifecycle: from definition and design through to testing and delivery
 * To proactively manage change throughout the development lifecycle
 * Design and development of robust system architectures, which encompass electrical, mechanical and software interfaces and interactions.
 * Use Model Based Systems engineering (MBSE) to create and maintain operational, logical and function architectures