Systems Engineer

Prattwhitney; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible working arrangements

Private healthcare and life assurance

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Prattwhitney is seeking a Systems Engineer for a hybrid role in Plymouth, UK, focusing on designing and validating complex embedded systems for air and surface applications.

The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills, relevant engineering experience, and familiarity with requirements management tools. The position offers competitive compensation, flexible working arrangements, and a supportive environment for career development.

Security clearance may be required due to project access restrictions.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience covering the full development lifecycle.
• Experience creating test plans and executing test programmes.
• Familiarity with control systems engineering and digital signal processing.

Responsibilities

• Work with customers to understand system level use cases and requirements.
• Develop system architecture and interface with key stakeholders.
• Support integration for real-time embedded systems.

Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Systems Engineering experience

Requirements analysis

Architectural design

Test plans and procedures

Tools

Requirements management tools (DOORS, Jama)

Version control systems (SVN, Git)

Job description

Collins Aerospace (a Raytheon Technologies company) is seeking a Systems Engineer for a hybrid role based in Plymouth, UK. The role focuses on designing, integrating, and validating complex embedded systems for both air and surface applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with customers and key stakeholders to understand and capture system level use cases, concept of operations and requirements.
• Develop the system architecture.
• Interface with stakeholders across Systems, Software, Electrical, and Mechanical engineering and develop requirement specifications for each component of the system.
• Support system integration for real‑time embedded systems, including hardware/software interfaces.
• Ensure requirement‑to‑requirement and requirement‑to‑test traceability throughout the design.
• Develop test cases and procedures against the requirements and execute tests.
• Apply logical and innovative problem‑solving across software, hardware, and system levels.
• Provide inputs to project planning, estimations and progress reporting.

What You Will Learn

• Exposure to cutting‑edge navigation and sensing technologies.
• Mentorship and training from industry‑leading experts.
• Opportunities to work on mission‑critical systems used globally.
• A supportive environment that encourages continuous learning and career progression.

Required Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to technical and non‑technical stakeholders in a fast‑paced environment.
• Demonstrated experience as a Systems Engineer covering the full development lifecycle.
• Strong requirements analysis and management skills.
• Experience with architectural design and decomposition.
• Experience creating test plans, test cases and procedures and executing test programmes.
• Experience with requirements management tools such as DOORS (or Jama or similar).
• Familiarity with version control systems (SVN, Git, Teamwork Cloud).

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience with SysML tools such as EA (or Cameo).
• Ability to read and interpret schematics.
• Data analysis experience.
• Control systems engineering experience.
• Digital signal processing experience.
• Experience with platforms that utilise inertial sensors and associated requirements.
• Experience using COTS test equipment in a lab environment (oscilloscopes, bus analysers, etc.).
• Experience with hardware in the loop test, MATLAB.

Compensation & Benefits

Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Flexible working arrangements. Excellent 2:1 matched pension contribution (up to 10%). Private healthcare and life assurance. 25 days annual leave plus the option to buy or sell up to 5 days. Early finish Fridays and a culture that values work‑life balance. Ongoing career development, mentorship, and world‑class training. Hybrid: Employees who are working in Hybrid roles will work regularly both onsite and offsite; the ratio of time working onsite will be determined in partnership with your leader.

Security: The successful candidate must hold an active or be willing and eligible to obtain SC level security clearance. Access to certain projects may be restricted based on nationality.

Equal Employment Opportunity

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.