Senior Systems Engineer — Thunder Mission System Lead

Jackalope Digital LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Anduril Industries in London seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to lead capability development on Thunder. You will bring pragmatic systems engineering to enhance mission system capability, ensuring end-user needs are met in challenging environments.

You will shape product and operate at velocity to deliver new designs within months, not years. You will own functional decomposition, SBS, PBS, and architecture diagrams, as well as develop SDDs and ICDs, contributing to safety and airworthiness

Qualifications

• BEng/BSc/MEng in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Computer Science, Robotics, Mechatronics, or a similar engineering field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years industry Systems Engineering experience including safety-critical hardware and software systems in the Defence or Aerospace industries, specifically crewed aircraft, rotorcraft, EVTOL, UAS or weapon systems with a focus on Payload Integration, Vehicle Management Systems, GNC or Autonomy.
• Demonstrable Systems Engineering proficiency, including solicitation of requirements with the customer/end-user, collaboration with design teams
• Experience developing traditional and right-sized Systems Engineering artefacts, including pragmatic verification and validation plans
• Deep understanding of the test and evaluation process as applicable to developmental, acceptance and operational testing
• Experience with crewed or uncrewed developmental autonomous aircraft (Group 5 UAS or larger)
• Proficiency in coordinating change management processes
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills to include presentation of developed artefacts
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active UKSV Security Clearance

Responsibilities

• Execute a right-sized, Agile Systems Engineering approach as per the Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP) for development of the Thunder Mission System and Payloads at the speed of relevance
• Support design teams in the evolution and progress of Technical Performance Measures (TPMs) throughout the design process
• Contribute to System Design Reviews (SDR) and engineering governance structures such as Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR), Critical Design Reviews (CDR), Test Readiness Reviews (TRR), Safety Review Boards (SRB) representing the Systems Engineering discipline
• Own and maintain Functional Decomposition, System Breakdown Structure (SBS), Product Breakdown Structure (PBS), and Architecture diagrams
• Develop key Systems Engineering design artefacts including System Description Documents (SDDs) and Interface Control Documents (ICDs)
• Champion the use of the Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP) to enable Mission System and Payload maturation
• Shape the design of representative Hardware In Lab (HIL) and Hardware In The Loop (HITL) physical integration environments, and input into surrogate testing
• Create issue board workflows and coordinate ticket triage, action assignment, artefact capture and closure
• Shape and coordinate configuration and change management processes
• Support wholistic Systems Safety and Airworthiness efforts
• Support build, ground and flight test of prototype and production representative Thunder Mission Systems with Physical Configuration Audits (PCA) and verification-related tasks

Skills

Systems Engineering

Requirements gathering

Technical communication

Autonomy/defense knowledge

Safety-critical hardware/software

Education

BEng/BSc/MEng in Aerospace/Mechanical/Electrical/CS/Robotics/Mechatronics (or similar)

Tools

Jama

Job description

Anduril Industries in London seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to lead capability development on Thunder. You will bring pragmatic systems engineering to enhance mission system capability, ensuring end-user needs are met in challenging environments.

You will shape product and operate at velocity to deliver new designs within months, not years. You will own functional decomposition, SBS, PBS, and architecture diagrams, as well as develop SDDs and ICDs, contributing to safety and airworthiness