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 - Bristol - 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