Job Description
SYSTEMS ENGINEERS, SYSTEMS ENGINEERS… Are you a Systems Engineer looking to join a company were you are valued? A place where you can thrive, whilst being part of exciting and rewarding projects and deliver cutting edge technology? Then look no further as Leonardo have a number of exciting and immediate opportunities for System Engineers across their sites in Southampton, Basildon and Bristol (in some areas we can be flexible with locations and offer hybrid working).
We are actively looking for Systems Engineers of all experience levels.
This is a fantastic opportunity for you to utilise and develop your current skills within an industry leading technology company. Working on real engineering problems, designing and developing solutions that sit at the heart of our products… Not to mention, we offer an award winning package.
About The Role
Our Systems Engineers span across range of activities that help pull together all the necessary engineering and technology strands into a high-performance system. As a Systems Engineer, you will bridge the gap between the theoretically possible and the practically implementable.
We are recruiting for a number of roles from a variety of backgrounds and skillsets. Based upon your skills and foundation knowledge, we will assess where your knowledge and skills would best fit and discuss the options with you.
Typical work you might be involved in
- Contribute to an early concept study investigating the application of new technology on future platforms
- Engage with stakeholders to define requirements for a new system
- Design and integrate new functionality into an existing sub-system in Simulink
- Collaborate with other engineers to design and prototype a detailed model of a system to understand observed simulated performance
- Design and prototype algorithms in Matlab, taking into account limitations and constraints of the target hardware
- Investigate the cause of anomalies observed during integration or evaluation activities, using real trials data
Projects and area’s we work in range for applications within Naval, Land and Air. Technology incudes;
- Comms and Force Protection
- Communications and training systems
- Communications and messaging systems
- Future Cruise Air System - Tempest
- Special Projects
- Mission Systems
- Electronic Warfare and Vetronics
- Mission Systems – Counter Unmanned Air Systems
- Sensors
- Precision Guidance working on Seeker and tracking algorithms
- EO/IR systems
Dependent on experience, you may lead technical activities and initiatives, or you may mentor and coach other engineers.
About You
Proven experience as a Systems Engineer within a working environment or advanced academic research experience is a must. Ideally, you will have a science-based Honours degree or equivalent experience.
We are not expecting you to have deep theoretical knowledge of radar, electro-optics or infrared systems, what we are looking for are systems engineers with applied engineering experience that we can build upon through training, team working and mentoring.
Domain specialisms include;
- Digital signal processing
- RF systems
- Electro-optic systems
- Medical imaging systems, image processing, image / object classification / identification
- Computer vision image processing (e.g. segmentation, clustering)
- Multi-sensor data fusion and tracking
- Real time data simulation/generation
We are particularly interested in speaking to you if you have experience in any of the following areas;
- Problem definition
- Systems Architecture
- Synthetic Environments
- Performance Modelling
- Verification and Validation
- System of Systems
All successful applicants must be eligible for full security clearance and access to UK-caveated and ITAR controlled information. For more information and guidance, please visit
https //www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels
What We Offer
A competitive salary based on your experience and skills and an award winning benefits package that includes;
- Flexible Working Flexible hours with hybrid working options. For part time opportunities, please talk to us.
- Company funded flexible benefits Access to private healthcare, dental schemes, Workplace ISA, Go Green Car Scheme, technology and lifestyle options (£500 annual allowance)
- Holidays Up to 45 days holiday! …25 days, plus bank holidays and to accrue up to 12 additional flexi leave days per year. There is also an option to buy/sell leave.
- Pension Award winning pension scheme (up to 23% total contribution)
- Wellbeing Employee Assistance Programme with access to free mental health support, financial wellbeing support and network groups to demonstrate our ongoing commitment to diversity & inclusion (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Reservists, Carers)
- Lifestyle Discounted Gym membership, Cycle to work scheme
- Training Free access to more than 4000 online courses via Coursera
- Bonus Scheme (role dependent)
For a full list of our Company benefits please visit our website.
Leonardo is a global high-tech company and one of the key players in Aerospace, Defence and Security. Headquartered in Italy, Leonardo has over 45,000 employees, of which 8,000 are based at 8 sites throughout the UK.
Primary Location
GB - Basildon
Additional Locations
GB - Bristol - Coldharbour Lane, GB - Southampton
Contract Type
Hybrid Working
Hybrid