Research Engineer - Electrical

Overview As Electrical System Engineer at GKN Aerospace, you will join the Electrical Network team within the Global Technology Centre to advance hydrogen-based, sustainable aerospace power systems. You will help define and verify system-level electrical requirements across the product lifecycle, collaborating in a multidisciplinary environment to ensure performance, safety, and certification.

You'll work on architecture, modelling, simulation, and testing to demonstrate system behaviour and reliability. This role offers meaningful impact shaping next-gen aerospace power solutions and sustaining our industry leadership.

Pay / Benefits Competitive salary Industry Leading Pension Scheme Life Assurance 8 x salary 25 days holiday + bank holidays Flexible working hours Cycle To Work Scheme Responsibilities Capture and analyse stakeholder, customer, regulatory and certification requirements Decompose high-level needs into subsystem and component requirements Support development and maintenance of electrical system architectures and interfaces Develop system models to evaluate behaviour and performance Run simulations to assess functionality, efficiency, control strategies and failure responses Conduct trade studies to inform design decisions Create test specifications, procedures and acceptance criteria Support lab, rig, subsystem and system-level testing activities Key requirements B.Eng degree or equivalent Experience in systems requirements elicitation and analysis Strong understanding of safety assurance practices for safety-critical systems (FTA, FHAs, FMEAs, bow-ties) Experience with a requirements management tool (Codebeamer, Polarion, DOORs) Learning mindset; comfortable with ambiguity Collaborative mindset and cross-functional teamwork Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking Matlab Simulink Requirements management tools (Codebeamer, Polarion, DOORs)

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