Details:
- Job Type: Contract
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Location: Tyne and Wear
- Date: 1 week ago
Description:
Principal Systems Engineer
12 month contract
Newcastle (100% site based)
£70ph (Inside IR35)
We are recruiting for a number of Systems Engineering roles, you will work on real engineering problems, designing and developing solutions that sit at the heart of our products. Your work may be exploited into:
The radar for the Typhoon fighter jet
The radar for the SAAB Gripen fighter
Our family of Surveillance AESA (Active Electronically Scanned Array) radars
An IRCM (Infra-Red Counter Measures) system
Our laser target designator or laser ranging systems
Key responsibilities - Principal Systems Engineer
Contribute to an early concept study investigating the application of new technology on future platforms
Engage with stakeholders to define requirements for a new system
Design and integrate new functionality into an existing sub-system in Simulink
Collaborate with other engineers to design and prototype a detailed model of a system to understand observed simulated performance
Design and prototype algorithms in Matlab, taking into account limitations and constraints of the target hardware
Investigate the cause of anomalies observed during integration or evaluation activities, using real trials data
Dependent on experience, you may lead technical activities and initiatives, or you may mentor and coach other engineers.
Your Skills and Experience - Principal Systems Engineer
Ideally, you will have a science-based Honours degree or equivalent experience. You will have worked in industry, or will have advanced academic research experience. We are particularly interested in speaking to you if you have experience in any of the following areas:
Problem definition
Systems Architecture
Synthetic Environments
Performance Modelling
Verification and Validation
System of Systems
Domain specialisms, e.g.
Digital signal processing
RF systems
Electro-optic systems
Medical imaging systems, image processing, image / object classification / identification
Computer vision image processing (e.g. segmentation, clustering)
Multi-sensor data fusion and tracking
Real time data simulation/generation