Senior Systems Engineer

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1 year ago
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At Roke

Roke is a world-class technology and engineering consultancy. Roke delivers advanced research and development services and products to high profile Customers who come to Roke with varied and challenging problems to solve.

Roke's Defence Business Unit provides technology innovation and consultancy to a variety of military users, applying our skills in Cyber & Networks, Agile Software, Consulting & Systems Engineering, Sensors & Communications, AI & Machine Learning, Information Assurance & Human Science and Data Science.

The Job Opportunity

Roke is seeking Senior Systems Engineers to provide technical leadership in the design and delivery of innovative and effective solutions, across a variety of strategic programmes and business critical initiatives.

The role requires individuals who can work closely with our defence clients and users, applying their technical knowledge and domain experience, whilst communicating effectively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

Individuals must be able to work effectively in a highly technically challenging but rewarding environment, able to quickly assess trade-offs and lead on technical decision making.

Job Purpose & Key Responsibilities

The Senior Systems Engineer is responsible for:
Acting as a System Design Authority across the full engineering lifecycle from initial concept to product.
Providing leadership and systems engineering expertise to technical teams in the delivery of science and technology-based research, solution and product development, equipment trials, and business development including competitive bids.
Strengthening customer relationships and developing business opportunities by providing expert technical assistance in the shaping of solutions and their delivery programmes.
Providing technical assurance expertise across a broad range of internal projects, and on behalf of clients when required.
Liaising regularly with project management teams and Customers for progress reviews, ensuring technical delivery to time, cost and performance/quality whilst managing technical risks.
Working dynamically on Customer sites, from the office, in shared workspaces or from home as required, with occasional overseas travel where necessary. Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
The ideal candidate:
Will have a BEng/BSc and/or master's degree in an appropriate engineering, computer science, information systems or related subject. Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Systems Engineering and technical leadership.
EW familiarity across EA, ES, ECM, ESM, RPNT, RF cyber, middleware and radio bearers.
Defence frameworks and standards such as NAFv4, LCA, MORA, GVA, OpenCPI, AOCO common services and JICD 4.2.
Electronic warfare (C5ISR) and both military and civil communications systems.
Practical electronics experience in hardware, firmware and software including digital signal processing systems/DSPs/FPGAs, software defined radios, RF systems and antennas.
Signal processing principles including sampling, filtering, communications waveforms, protocol stacks, radar and sensor fusion.
Requirements engineering and the analysis of user requirements and use-cases to develop system requirements.
System design elicitation for complex CEMA/RF products and associated R&D programmes.
Familiarity with development processes such as Waterfall, Agile, SAFe and Spiral.
Verification and validation across the full V-model from system level down to lower levels such as circuit verification.
The design and development of technical documentation for engineering projects including user and system requirements, design specifications, test specifications, ITEAPs and VV&T logs.
Identification and analysis of key risks, issues and problems and their associated mitigations and impact and their management through technical RAIDOs. Why You Should Join Us

We have a competitive salary and access to a number of additional flexible benefits, which will cover Health and Wellbeing, Savings and Protection and Life, Leisure and Entertainment.

Roke has a great community of groups with shared interests. These enable people to share ideas and be passionate about tools, technologies and techniques, which interest them.

Security Information

Due to the nature of this position, we require you to be willing and eligible to achieve a minimum of SC clearance. To qualify, the candidate should be a British Citizen and have resided in the UK for the last 5 years for SC

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