Key skills
Communication
About this role
Role Overview
- System architecture design
- defining how hardware, software, sensors, actuators, and communication protocols all fit together.
- Managing functional and non-functional requirements, maintaining traceability from system to subsystem level throughout the development lifecycle
- Requirements engineering
- translating customer or product needs into precise technical specifications for subsystems.
- Working with engineering managers to turn requirements into reality.
- Tender support
- Lead and coordinate tender and proposal responses for government and commercial customers, ensuring technical clarity and compliance with bid requirements
- Interface management
- owning the 'contracts' between teams and subsystems (e.g., how the UAV talks to the Ground Control System)
- Integration & testing
- bringing subsystems together and verifying the combined system behaves correctly by defining proportionate Verification and Validation strategies and ensuring test plans maintain clear traceability to requirements
- Failure analysis
- diagnosing why a system fails and designing mitigations (redundancy, fault detection, etc.)
Requirements
- Degree in product development, mechanical or aerospace engineering, physics, computer science, electronics or similar field
- 4+ years in a systems engineering role within aerospace, defence, robotics, or an adjacent domain
- Experience with UAV, UAS, or autonomous vehicles
- Experience with functional safety, development assurance, safety lifecycle or similar standards
- Able to work independently and exercise sound judgement in a small, fast-moving team
Benefits
- Stock options
- Ability to influence major technical decisions as an early hire
- A focus on outcomes