Experienced Systems Engineer

Frankenburg Technologies; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Frankenburg Technologies is actively seeking an Experienced Systems Engineer to lead complex missile and weapon system projects from concept through deployment. You will guide architecture, requirements, verification, and risk management across interdisciplinary teams and with external partners.

The role emphasizes MBSE adoption, technical leadership, and collaboration with suppliers, customers, and internal stakeholders to deliver safe, reliable, and mission‑critical capabilities in a

Qualifications

• Experience across the full systems engineering lifecycle in defence, aerospace, or other complex safety‑critical industries.
• Experience leading systems engineering teams or acting as a Systems Engineering Lead, Technical Lead, or Work Package Lead.
• Strong stakeholder and customer engagement skills with experience operating as a technical authority.
• Knowledge of systems engineering standards and frameworks, including ISO 15288 and ISO 9001/AS9100.
• Experience with Model‑Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approaches and tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead systems engineering activities across multiple projects, ensuring delivery against performance, quality, schedule, and cost objectives.
• Develop and maintain system architectures, requirements, verification strategies, and engineering artefacts throughout the system lifecycle.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to systems engineers and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Lead technical trade studies, design reviews, customer engagements, and acceptance activities.
• Identify and manage technical risks, assumptions, dependencies, and opportunities.
• Support system integration, verification, validation, qualification, certification, and deployment activities.
• Drive the adoption of Model‑Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools and methodologies.
• Support business development, technical proposals, and collaboration with suppliers and technology partners.

Skills

Systems engineering

Technical leadership

Stakeholder engagement

MBSE

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

MATLAB

Simulink

STK

Job description

About the Role

Join our expanding engineering team as a Experienced Systems Engineer and play a key role in delivering advanced missile and weapon system capabilities. Reporting to the Head of Systems Engineering, you will lead the development of complex solutions from concept to deployment, providing technical leadership across multiple projects.

Working with multidisciplinary teams, customers, and suppliers, you will apply systems engineering best practices to solve complex challenges and deliver safe, reliable, and mission‑critical capability in a fast‑paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead systems engineering activities across multiple projects, ensuring delivery against performance, quality, schedule, and cost objectives.
• Develop and maintain system architectures, requirements, verification strategies, and engineering artefacts throughout the system lifecycle.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to systems engineers and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Lead technical trade studies, design reviews, customer engagements, and acceptance activities.
• Identify and manage technical risks, assumptions, dependencies, and opportunities.
• Support system integration, verification, validation, qualification, certification, and deployment activities.
• Drive the adoption of Model‑Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools and methodologies.
• Support business development, technical proposals, and collaboration with suppliers and technology partners.

We Would Love You to Have

• Experience across the full systems engineering lifecycle in defence, aerospace, or other complex safety‑critical industries.
• Experience leading systems engineering teams or acting as a Systems Engineering Lead, Technical Lead, or Work Package Lead.
• Strong stakeholder and customer engagement skills with experience operating as a technical authority.
• Knowledge of systems engineering standards and frameworks, including ISO 15288 and ISO 9001/AS9100.
• Experience with Model‑Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approaches and tools.
• Understanding of system safety, safety assurance, and safety case development.
• Desirable: Experience with missile systems, guided weapons, air defence systems, or related defence technologies.
• Desirable: Experience with STK, MATLAB, and/or Simulink.
• Alignment with our mission to develop affordable, scalable, and mass‑manufacturable defence technologies.

Our Values

Our mission is ambitious, and it takes a team that works with the same intensity.

• Own the Mission: Mission first. Always.
  We choose impact — we focus on what moves the mission forward fastest instead of “nice‑to‑haves