Lead System Engineer

Salary: £48,000 – £54,000 per year

Based: Farnborough – relocating to Maidenhead in 2023

Ultra Specialist RF are looking to recruit a Lead Systems Engineer.

You will be responsible for project delivery, managing and deriving requirements, generating engineering documents/specifications, and supporting early development of requirements test plans.

You will support the bid team with architecture development during bid/capture of new opportunities. Support, develop, and maintain engineering processes to meet business needs.

Core Responsibilities:

• Management of customer requirements, and storing this information within the requirements management system, to ensure that design documentation and customer requirements are aligned.

• Generate internal system requirements from high level customer requirements to ensure product development is suitably specified.

• Work with engineering function to development high level system design documents (SDS & ICD).

• Work with Product Leads to support our bid process.

• Represent the Systems function at all design reviews (internal and external) to provide technical expertise and guidance on best practice.

• Contribute to design reviews and present material in specialist areas.

• Support the engineering function by raising risks and issues and proposing solutions.

• Adopts best practice and fosters innovation to support business needs.

• Ensures that all work within the function is of sufficient quality and is carried out according to process.

• Manage security of information as defined in the Security manual.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Full understanding of the system engineering lifecycle and V-model.

• Presentation skills and detailed technical knowledge to explain system engineering concepts to a wide technical audience.

• Extensive use of engineering management tools (e.g., DOORS, JAMA)

• Experienced in Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) and tools (UML, SysML, Rhapsody, Sparx EA, Visio)

• Skill in creating a system design to provide optimal solutions by appropriately allocating functionality between hardware, firmware and software based on experience within one or more of these fields.

• Ability to clearly articulate design intent using Design Documents, block diagrams, flow diagrams and system level schematics.

• Experience of specifying system requirements for complex systems utilising FPGA design.

• Experience within Electronic Warfare (EW), Electronic Countermeasures (ECM), Electromagnetic Spectrum, or Radar domains would be desirable

• Experience of system safety would be desirable

You will need to be eligible for SC Clearance to be considered for this role.

Here at Ultra we are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusivity. Underpinned by our values, behaviours and policies, we want you to feel empowered to be the best version of yourself. We also believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures will increase our diversity of thinking, ensuring we successfully deliver to our customers.

We therefore do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also support requests for flexible working arrangements wherever possible.