Systems Design Engineer

MERITUS Talent are partnering with currently Europe's most bouyant and busiest defence customer for the recruitment of 3 separate Sysem Design Engineers to join their offices in Bristol or Stevenage

Systems Design Engineer - Contract - Stevenage - 12 Months - Up to £75 per hour - INSIDE IR35 - Fully Onsite - Compressed working available

Job Title: Systems Design Engineer

Overview of department:

The role is for a Systems Design Engineer to work on a project which is developing, building and testing real hardware for a key sub-system. The role is to design the architecture and to develop the technical requirements.

Responsibilities (to include):

• Provide support to integration and testing teams in capturing test requirements and plans in DOORS

• Flow-down of system requirements to subsystem requirement specifications
• Define and maintain design justification record providing linkage from system requirements to subsystem requirements
• Defining algorithms in firmware and software
• Development of system-level test sequences
• Liaise with subsystem teams, to ensure design proposals take into account existing design constraints
• Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) - increasingly adopted within thes System Engineering domain
• Supporting safety, security and reliability aspects of projects
• Support customer working groups as required

Due to the sensitive nature of the work it is predominantly done onsite but there is some flexibility depending on project.

Skillset / experience required:

Tools:

• DOORS, or other SysML tools

Skills:

• You will be able to perform requirements analysis and trade off studies to flow down requirements to seeker sub-assemblies, firmware and software
• You will be able to demonstrate your systems engineering experience
• You will be able to demonstrate exposure to system requirements, as well as developing system architecture models and configuration control
• You will be able to discuss hardware, firmware or software design constraints
• Knowledge of RF is desirable
• Have a willingness to learn about the project, tools and methods
• Demonstrate persistence to get the job done
• Ability to work as part of a fast paced team