Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) Systems Engineers

Job Description:
Are you in your mid-career and looking for a change-up in challenges?
Can you take the lead on developing the next generation of systems?
Do you want to work on the next major military aircraft programme in the UK?
Our experienced hire roles on the GCAP related programmes are ideal for people wanting to take that step up with more responsibility or try their hand at something different.
Being part of this programme will put you in influential roles to help guide and define the capabilities of tomorrow while striving to deliver the early development work of today. You'll have an important role in mentoring and supporting the next generation of engineers and scientists coming into this area at a pivotal point in the programmes lifespan. You'll be colleagues with experts, specialists and other highly capable people from across a diverse set of backgrounds and disciplines, working together to figure out the answers to our customers key problems.
Typical Work you might be involved in:
- Contribute to early concept studies investigating the application of new technology on the future platform
- Engage with stakeholders to define requirements for the new platform
- Conduct cost and functional performance trade-offs and evaluation of alternative solutions
- Design and prototype a detailed model of a system to understand observed simulated performance
- Prototype algorithms, 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
- Design and conduct testing activities to prove equipment function and performance, including trials
- Dependent on experience, you may lead technical activities and initiatives, or you may mentor and coach other engineers
- Contribute to and deliver reports, presentations and proposals for customers and industry
- Actively support knowledge sharing and exploitation of good practice
What you will get:
- Support to career development on the job and off the job via your Project Teams and the Function to help your progression.
- Custom working opportunities to help suit your lifestyle and home life, flexible benefits covering a wide range of options and a variety of extra activities and support groups to join or get involved
- Diverse opportunities throughout your career with us to work on different stages of product development product types.
- Support to mentoring and professional development towards industry accreditations.
- Lead the way in our technical engagements with our partners and customers to understand what they truly need
- Develop up and coming engineers and scientists with their Systems skills and sharing your domain knowledge
- Contribute to and make key decisions that could influence the future of military air capability
- Support the successful delivery of our commitments to the business and our customers
- Develop and mature systems designs, technology insertion and research exploitation for this next generation aircraft
What we are looking for
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 not expecting you to have electronic warfare domain knowledge as we can provide support for that. What we are looking for are Systems Engineers with applied engineering experience that we can build upon through training, team working and mentoring.
Whether you specialise in a part of the systems engineering lifecycle or have a broad breadth of knowledge across it, we want to hear from you if you have experience in any of the following areas:
Systems Engineering specialisms, e.g.
- Problem definition
- Systems Architecture
- Synthetic Environments
- Systems Modelling and Analysis
- Integration
- Verification and Validation
- Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
- Able to apply systems thinking to customer problems and propose innovative solutions
- Experience of working with related specialisms such as safety, security, reliability etc to deliver robust systems
Domain specialisms, e.g.
- Digital signal processing
- RF systems
- Multi-sensor data fusion and tracking
- Real time data simulation/generation
- Military Electronic systems
- AI / ML techniques to draw insights from large data sets
Life at Leonardo
With a company funded benefits package, a commitment to learning and development, and a flexible approach to working hours focused on the needs of both our employees and customers, a career with Leonardo has never offered as many opportunities or been more accessible to as many people.
Flexible Working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options. For part time opportunities, please talk to us
Company funded flexible benefits: Access to private healthcare, dental schemes, Workplace ISA, Go Green Car Scheme, technology and lifestyle options (GBP500 annual allowance)
Holidays: 25 days plus bank holidays, option to buy/sell leave and to accrue up to 12 additional flexi leave days per year
Pension: Award winning pension scheme (up to 10% employer contribution)
Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme with access to free mental health support, financial wellbeing support and network groups to demonstrate our ongoing commitment to diversity & inclusion (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Reservists, Carers)
Lifestyle: Discounted Gym membership, Cycle to work scheme
Training: Free access to more than 4000 online courses via Coursera
Referral Incentive: You can earn a reward for successfully referring a friend or family member
Bonus: Scheme in place for all employees at management level and below
For a full list of our Company benefits please visit our website.
Leonardo is a global high-tech company and one of the key players in Aerospace, Defence and Security. Headquartered in Italy, Leonardo has over 45,000 employees, of which 8,000 are based at 8 sites throughout the UK.
At Leonardo UK, we believe that a diverse and inclusive work environment unlocks our people's full potential and drives innovation and creativity. We work hard to offer a welcoming, accessible and inclusive place to work for all of our people, creating a culture where everyone can thrive, feel safe and have a sense of belonging and connection.
This is a great opportunity to bring your talents and form an integral part of Leonardo's future. We can help you develop your skills and offer great opportunities to develop and grow, so why not join us.
Primary Location:
GB - Luton - Cap. Green 300
Additional Locations:
GB - Bristol - Coldharbour Lane, GB - Lincoln
Contract Type:
Hybrid Working:
Hybrid