Aerospace & Defence System Requirements Engineer

Cambridge Aerospace; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical & Dental

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

Cambridge Aerospace seeks a System Requirements Engineer to own capture, analysis and management of requirements for complex engineering systems within aerospace and defence programmes.

You will translate customer, operational and technical needs into clear, verifiable requirements that support design, delivery and acceptance, while working with architecture, safety and test teams to ensure traceability and verification across the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Experience in requirements engineering for complex systems, ideally within aerospace, defence or regulated engineering environments.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to methodically organise complex technical information in rapid development programmes.
• Experience with requirements management tools and disciplined configuration/change control.
• Understanding of how requirements support architecture, integration, verification and certification activities.
• Good communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively and generate buy-in across technical and non-technical teams.
• Degree in a relevant engineering or scientific discipline, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Capture and structure stakeholder, user and system requirements at multiple levels of decomposition.
• Develop and maintain requirements baselines, traceability and change control throughout the programme lifecycle.
• Ensure requirements are clear, consistent, testable and aligned to system intent, operational need and contractual obligations.
• Work closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams to understand technical trade-offs and resolve ambiguities.
• Work with architecture, design, safety and test teams to ensure requirements are properly flowed down and verified.
• Support impact assessments, technical reviews and requirement maturity assessments.
• Contribute to the development of verification strategies and evidence structures linked to requirement compliance.

Skills

Requirements engineering

Traceability

Requirements management

Stakeholder comms

Architecture understanding

Education

Engineering or science degree

Tools

Requirements tools

Configuration control

Job description

Cambridge Aerospace seeks a System Requirements Engineer to own capture, analysis and management of requirements for complex engineering systems within aerospace and defence programmes.

You will translate customer, operational and technical needs into clear, verifiable requirements that support design, delivery and acceptance, while working with architecture, safety and test teams to ensure traceability and verification across the lifecycle.