Design Proving Systems Engineer
Hackajob Ltd ·
hackajob is partnering directly with Leonardo to hire for this role. Job Description: Salary Range: Senior Systems Engineer £44,500 - £56,000 Principal Systems Engineer £53,500 - £68,000 Where this vacancy is being recruited across more than one grade, the successful candidate will be appointed to a specific assessed grade, and the applicable salary range will be that associated with the grade of appointment.
Leonardo UK operates a grade-based salary framework with broad bands. The salary range shown reflects the approved grade band for this role, or a narrower hiring range published within that band, and is benchmarked against the external market.
Exceptions above the standard range are managed through governance controls to protect internal equity. Your Impact Leonardo is seeking to recruit systems engineers to join its Electronics UK business. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering leading edge solutions to challenging projects.
Advanced targeting covers all the Electro-Optic (EO) and Infrared (IR) projects being developed in Edinburgh, spanning lasers, imaging systems, detection and tracking, control systems, and navigation. The whole of the engineering lifecycle is covered, from early concept systems to products reaching their end of service.
Systems engineers are involved in every part of the lifecycle, and play a crucial role, ensuring the system performs above expectations. The focus of this systems engineering role is to support EO and IR projects within the Advanced Targeting business sector, applying problem solving techniques and fundamental EO/IR engineering and physics-based knowledge, to build advanced products for the military.
Given the nature of the work at this level, we can offer custom working, however some on-site working is expected. What you'll do As an EO/IR Systems Engineer,
you will
Contribute to the requirement capture and management, definition, development, modelling, manufacture, test, validation and verification of advanced EO/IR technologies and systems Mentor early-career engineers in your immediate team, or across the business Adopt, adhere to, and contribute to the improvement of defined engineering processes governing systems engineering across the full lifecycle Working with other functions within Integrated Project Teams and across the sector in the AIT and V