EO/IR Systems Engineer – Trials & Verification

Leonardo Worldwide Corporation; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 53,500 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

Leonardo UK is seeking a Senior EO/IR Systems Engineer to contribute across the full lifecycle, from concept through to verification, ensuring system performance and maturity. You will interface with engineering teams, customers, and trials organisations to feed outputs into design decisions.

The role emphasizes collaboration, mentoring, and adherence to engineering processes, with hybrid onsite work and security clearances as applicable.

Qualifications

• Degree level qualification in systems engineering, physics, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong numerical, analytic and problem-solving skills supporting “systems thinking”.
• Experience with systems engineering methods, tools and processes supporting trials.
• Familiarity with EO/IR systems and technologies.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Tenacity and determination to deliver results.
• Experience collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to requirements capture and management for EO/IR systems.
• Mentor early-career engineers in the team or across business.
• Improve and follow defined engineering processes across the lifecycle.
• Work with Integrated Project Teams to define trials with EO/IR equipment.
• Collaborate with peers across the UK to promote continual learning.

Skills

Systems thinking

Engineering methods

EO/IR tech

Lifecycle knowledge

Communication

Tenacity

Stakeholder management

Education

Degree in relevant field

Job description

Leonardo UK is seeking a Senior EO/IR Systems Engineer to contribute across the full lifecycle, from concept through to verification, ensuring system performance and maturity. You will interface with engineering teams, customers, and trials organisations to feed outputs into design decisions.

The role emphasizes collaboration, mentoring, and adherence to engineering processes, with hybrid onsite work and security clearances as applicable.