Defensive EW Radar Engineer for Combat Aircraft

Expleo Group; Preston; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Collaborative environment

ExpleoAcademy

Competitive company benefits

Disability Confident Employer

Job summary

Expleo is a trusted partner for engineering, quality services, and digital transformation. We collaborate with world-leading aerospace manufacturers, delivering cutting‑edge solutions in structural analysis, finite element modelling, numerical simulation, and certification support.

We are seeking Defensive Aids Systems (DAS) Radar Engineers to support the development of advanced survivability and electronic warfare capabilities for the next generation of combat aircraft.

Qualifications

• Degree in Systems Engineering, Electronic, Aerospace, Physics, Mathematics or related STEM field.
• Significant demonstrable experience without formal qualifications considered.

Responsibilities

• Support development of DAS and survivability system requirements.
• Contribute to systems architecture and interface definition activities.
• Support integration of radar sensing capabilities within wider survivability solutions.
• Produce engineering artefacts and technical documentation.
• Support technical trade studies and performance assessments.
• Participate in integration, test and verification activities.
• Contribute to modelling, simulation and synthetic environment activities.
• Support design reviews and customer technical engagements.
• Work collaboratively with radar, mission systems and electronic warfare teams.
• Support continuous improvement and engineering excellence initiatives.

Skills

Systems engineering lifecycle

Radar technologies

Electronic warfare

Complex systems integration

Requirements management

Verification planning

Technical analysis

Stakeholder communication

DASS

Radar Warning Receivers

Electronic Support Measures

Threat detection

EM environment analysis

RF countermeasures

Survivability assessment

Sensor fusion

MBSE

MATLAB modelling

Digital engineering

Education

STEM degree (Systems/Electronic/Aerospace/Physics/Math)

Tools

MATLAB

Job description

Expleo is a trusted partner for engineering, quality services, and digital transformation. We collaborate with world-leading aerospace manufacturers, delivering cutting‑edge solutions in structural analysis, finite element modelling, numerical simulation, and certification support.

We are seeking Defensive Aids Systems (DAS) Radar Engineers to support the development of advanced survivability and electronic warfare capabilities for the next generation of combat aircraft.