Systems Engineer

The Planet Group; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading manufacturer of high-tech sensors is seeking a Contract Systems Engineer for an initial 6-month contract in Plymouth. The role involves providing inputs for project planning, managing system requirements, and integrating hardware and software for embedded systems. Ideal candidates will have substantial experience in systems engineering and be familiar with version control and requirement management tools. This position offers hybrid working, requiring two days onsite to support business needs.

Qualifications

• Established experience as a Systems Engineer throughout the development life cycle.
• Competence with SYSML management tools is preferred.
• Strong understanding of requirement capture and interpretation of schematics.
• Experience with version control and data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Provide inputs to project planning and estimations.
• Manage and validate system requirements.
• Integrate real-time embedded systems with hardware and software.
• Develop test procedures and ensure traceability.

Skills

Problem-solving skills

Requirement capture

Data analysis

Understanding of data bus standards

Tools

SYSML management tools (e.g., EA)

DOORS or similar

Matlab

SVN or Git

Job description

The Planet Group have recently been engaged by a market leading manufacturer of high-tech sensors who are looking for a Contract Systems Engineer to join the team on an initial 6-month contract based in Plymouth.

The project will likely extend long term, and we would like to have this operating on a hybrid pattern with 2 days per week onsite to support business needs.

Requirements generation and management. Development of systems verification procedures and completion of verification test activities.

You will be required to interface with stakeholders on many factors covering Systems, Software, Electrical & Mechanical engineering.

Essential Responsibilities

• Providing inputs to project planning, estimations and progress reporting.
• Systems requirements definition, management and validation.
• Systems integration - real-time embedded systems, hardware/software.
• Systems verification - test procedure development, requirements to test traceability, unit-based testing.
• To understand hardware and embedded software architectures and implementations, and the interfaces between each other.
• Be aware of internal (board/board or processor/peripheral) and external (unit to unit/network) data bus standards.
• Logical and innovative problem-solving skills that can span systems/software/hardware.
• Understanding of Industrial, Automotive and Aerospace standards.

Ideal Candidates

• Established experience working as a Systems Engineer through the full development life cycle.
• Competence with SYSML management tools such as EA (or Cameo) is preferred.
• Strong understanding of requirement capture.
• Be able to read and interpret schematics.
• Previous experience utilising DOORS (or similar) to manage requirements.
• Experience with version control e.g. SVN, Git.
• Data analysis and algorithm development experience, incl. use of Matlab.

Desirable

• Experience or knowledge of solid-state (MEMS) gyroscopes and accelerometers.
• Electrical or software design and development experience.
• Able to use an emulator for on chip debugging.
• Able to use COTS TE ('scope, bus analysers etc.) in lab environment.

You must be eligible for BPSS (Baseline Clearance) to be considered for this position. If you would like to find out more, please apply in the first instance.

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