System Engineer

Cambridge Aerospace; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Private medical & dental

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

Cambridge Aerospace is seeking experienced systems engineers to define, develop, and maintain architectures, interfaces and allocations for evolving products. You will capture and manage requirements with traceability from user need through design, verification and acceptance evidence.

You will perform operational and performance analyses to quantify behavior, assess trade-offs, and support new capability development while applying MBSE across the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Experience across the systems engineering lifecycle, including MBSE approaches.
• Capture and manage requirements with traceability from user need to verification.
• Perform operational analysis to quantify behavior and support capability development.
• Apply systems engineering processes and lifecycle methods across programs.
• Safety and certification activities in aerospace/defence.
• Test, validation and verification activities support.
• Ability to communicate trade-offs clearly to multi-disciplinary teams.
• Breadth to contribute beyond a single specialization.
• Degree in engineering or scientific discipline, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Define, develop, and maintain system architectures, interfaces, and allocations for products.
• Capture, analyze and manage requirements with traceability.
• Perform operational and performance analysis to quantify system behavior.
• Apply MBSE and lifecycle processes across the program.
• Support safety, certification, verification and validation activities.
• Collaborate with software, hardware, mechanical, RF, test and programme teams.
• Contribute to trials, demonstrations and technical reviews.

Skills

System architecture

Requirements capture and management

Operational analysis

MBSE

Safety and certification

Test and verification

System integration

Trade-off analysis

Structured engineering thinking

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Responsibilities

• Defines, develops, and maintains system architectures, interfaces, and functional allocations for new and evolving products
• Capture, analyse and manage requirements, ensuring traceability from user need through to design, verification and acceptance evidence
• Perform operational and performance analysis to quantify system behaviour, assess trade-offs, and support the development of new capabilities
• Apply systems engineering processes and methods across the lifecycle, including model-based approaches where appropriate
• Support or lead safety, certification, verification, and validation activities
• Work closely with software, hardware, mechanical, RF, test, and programme teams to ensure coherent system development and integration
• Contribute to trials, demonstrations, and technical reviews, with responsibilities shaped by the individual role focus and programme needs

Requirements

• Strong capability in one or more relevant systems engineering skill areas:
• System architecture definition and ownership
• Requirements capture and management
• Operational analysis
• Application of systems engineering principles, including MBSE
• Safety and certification in aerospace & defence
• Test, validation and verification
• Trials and demonstrations support
• Ability to apply structured engineering thinking and communicate technical trade-offs clearly
• Familiarity with systems engineering lifecycle delivery, with the breadth to contribute beyond a single specialism where required
• Degree in a relevant engineering or scientific discipline, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications/Experience

• Experience in fast-paced R&D or startup environments, with rapid prototype iteration times
• Defence or aerospace industry experience

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation and stock options
• Private Medical & Dental
• Cycle to work scheme

About Us

The mission of Cambridge Aerospace is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe. That risk comes from the air – low-cost drones and cruise missiles now manufactured in colossal volumes by our adversaries, ballistic missiles capable of ending the world as we know it, and a new generation of hypersonic weapons that evade every existing defence.

We’re building low-cost interceptors that defeat these threats, and the surveillance systems to detect and target them – at a cost taxpayers can afford, at the pace the threat demands, and with sovereign supply chains that assure delivery.

We have immense backing from the world’s best venture funds. We’re one of the fastest growing defence technology companies in history. And we’re hiring the best engineers to prosecute the mission.

If you are in the top 1%, willing to work harder than you ever have, build technology better than anyone else, and contribute to the defining challenge of our time, now is the time to join us.