Systems Integration Engineer

Cambridge Aerospace; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Private medical & dental

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

Cambridge Aerospace is seeking a Systems Integration Engineer to plan and deliver integration, verification and validation activities for advanced aerospace and defence systems. The role focuses on unifying hardware, software and sub-systems, creating robust test approaches and generating evidence for performance, compliance and readiness for deployment.

You will collaborate with design, safety and project teams to ensure practical, efficient, and well-controlled test activities while

Qualifications

• Experience in systems integration, verification, validation or test within complex engineering programmes.
• Strong understanding of requirements-based test approaches and structured evidence generation.
• Ability to produce clear test documentation and to work methodically through technical problems.
• Experience supporting trials, demonstrations or system acceptance activities, particularly of airborne systems, would be beneficial.
• Awareness of safety-critical development and regulated engineering environments.
• Degree in a relevant engineering or scientific discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop integration, verification and validation strategies aligned to system requirements, architecture and programme milestones.
• Author and maintain test plans, procedures, specifications and reports for laboratory, rig, ground and flight activities.
• Support the integration of sub-systems, identifying, investigating and resolving technical issues and interface problems.
• Execute or oversee verification and validation activities, ensuring results are captured and linked to requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Support trials and demonstrations, including planning, readiness reviews, execution support and post-activity reporting.
• Work closely with design, safety, requirements and project teams to ensure integration and test activities are practical, efficient and well controlled.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of integration and test processes, tools and evidence management approaches.

Skills

Systems integration

Verification & validation

Test documentation

Requirements-based testing

Problem solving

Airborne systems knowledge

Education

Engineering or scientific degree

Job description

We are looking for a Systems Integration Engineer to plan and deliver integration, verification and validation activities for advanced aerospace and defence systems. The role will focus on bringing together hardware, software and sub-systems into coherent solutions, developing robust test approaches and generating the evidence required to demonstrate performance, compliance and readiness for demonstration or deployment.

Responsibilities

• Develop integration, verification and validation strategies aligned to system requirements, architecture and programme milestones.
• Author and maintain test plans, procedures, specifications and reports for laboratory, rig, ground and flight activities.
• Support the integration of sub-systems, identifying, investigating and resolving technical issues and interface problems.
• Execute or oversee verification and validation activities, ensuring results are captured and linked to requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Support trials and demonstrations, including planning, readiness reviews, execution support and post-activity reporting.
• Work closely with design, safety, requirements and project teams to ensure integration and test activities are practical, efficient and well controlled.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of integration and test processes, tools and evidence management approaches.

Requirements

• Experience in systems integration, verification, validation or test within complex engineering programmes.
• Strong understanding of requirements-based test approaches and structured evidence generation.
• Ability to produce clear test documentation and to work methodically through technical problems.
• Experience supporting trials, demonstrations or system acceptance activities, particularly of airborne systems, would be beneficial.
• Awareness of safety-critical development and regulated engineering environments.
• 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
• Experience in delivery of airborne systems within the defence industry would be highly advantageous.

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.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.