Senior Systems Engineer

WeAreTechWomen; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Thales OME in Glasgow/Reading is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to contribute to system engineering design across the project lifecycle. You will define system requirements, interfaces and behaviours, and develop verification tests while collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team.

The role involves autonomous work, the creation of design artefacts, and peer reviews to ensure requirements are met, with potential travel to other sites or customer locations as needed.

Qualifications

• Experience working with multi-disciplinary design teams.
• Proficient in elicitation, decomposition and analysis of requirements.
• Ability to define system interfaces and external factors impacting design.

Responsibilities

• Define System Requirements for the product.
• Create design documentation capturing the system design.
• Define internal/external interfaces of the system.
• Define functional system behaviour.
• Develop test procedures to verify system.
• Perform integration and verification testing.
• Gather evidence that requirements are met.
• Peer-review technical artefacts.
• Share knowledge with wider engineering team.

Skills

Good communication

Proactive

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Requirements engineering

Systems analysis

Systems interfaces

Design reviews

Job description

Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom

Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services.

An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Systems Engineer within Thales OME, the role can be based in Reading or Glasgow and depending on the specific project role may require some travel and time spent at other Thales sites, Customer sites or integration and test facilities.

Optronics & Missile Electronics (OME)

We enable forces to gather timely, meaningful information so they can make thoughtful, decisive choices that safeguard communities. For more than 130 years, we’ve championed the development of Optronics for military, scientific and commercial applications. Our expertise covers three sectors: Air, Land and Sea.

As a Senior Systems Engineer you will be able to work autonomously to contribute towards the systems engineering design activities throughout the engineering project involving:

• Definition of Systems Requirements for the product
• Creation of design documentation capturing the systems engineering design
• Definition of the internal and external interfaces of the system
• Functional definition of system behaviour
• Development of test procedures to support the verification of the system
• Carrying out integration and verification testing against test procedures
• Conducting activities to gather evidence that the systems requirements have been achieved
• Peer reviewing technical artefacts
• Supporting the wider engineering team by sharing knowledge

The successful candidate should be a good communicator who is proactive and able to constructively challenge ideas and concepts and have experience in:

• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary design team
• Defining systems interfaces, boundaries and other external factors that would impact on design
• Requirements Engineering (elicitation, decomposition and analysis)
• Analysing the operational concepts of a system

It would be beneficial if the candidate also has:

• Experience of the decomposition of a systems design to sub-system level
• Experience or knowledge of systems modelling techniques
• Experience of analysing potential solutions against the key needs in a design brief
• Experience of using design analysis techniques (trade-off analysis, calculations, modelling and simulation, etc.)

This role will report to the Head of Discipline for Systems Engineering and the Engineering Delivery Manager for their project.

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