Systems Engineer Defence

Work at the forefront of advanced optoelectronic and sensor systems supporting some of the UKs most critical maritime and avionics defence platforms. Join ALTEN Ltd as a Systems Engineer where youll play a key role in delivering nextgeneration sensing capabilities that enhance situational awareness and operational resilience.

Youll contribute across the full systems engineering lifecycle from requirements capture and architecture through to integration verification and delivery working on complex realtime systems.

Location: Glasgow
Onsite: Hybrid 3/4 Days per week (Glasgow or Edinburgh) 
Seniority: 5 Years of Relevant Experience
Security Clearance: Candidates must be willing and eligible to obtain SC clearance.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver systems engineering activities across the full Vmodel lifecycle including requirements design integration verification and validation
• Capture manage and maintain system requirements within DOORS ensuring full traceability to design and test
• Support and lead system integration activities across embedded software and sensor subsystems
• Define system architectures interfaces and functional behaviour
• Contribute to integration and systemlevel test strategy including planning and execution
• Participate in design reviews technical governance and riskbased decision making
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across software hardware and systems engineering
• Support throughlife engineering including defect management upgrades and configuration control

Qualifications :

Required Skills

• Strong experience in systems engineering within defence aerospace or safetycritical environments
• Proven experience working on the lefthand side of the Vmodel (requirements design architecture)
• Handson experience with requirements engineering (elicitation decomposition traceability)
• Experience using DOORS or similar requirements management tools
• Strong understanding of system interfaces boundaries and integration challenges
• Experience supporting integration verification and validation of complex systems

Soft Skills & Collaboration

• Strong analytical and problemsolving mindset
• Confident communicator within multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Proactive selfstarting approach to delivering engineering solutions
• Comfortable working in structured processdriven environments

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Engineering or relevant technical military background with equivalent experience.

Desirable Skills

• Experience with optoelectronic optical or sensorbased systems
• Knowledge of systems modelling techniques (e.g. MBSE SysML)
• Experience decomposing complex systems into subsystem architectures
• Knowledge of realtime embedded systems
• Experience contributing to test procedure development and verification activities
• Background in maritime or defence programmes

Additional Information :

Why join us 

We bring together entrepreneurial tech-driven people to deliver innovative solutions for leading companies.

At ALTEN youll work on exciting projects supported by ongoing learning mentoring and clear career development tailored to your goals.

Join a passionate team and help build tomorrow today.

In short you get: 

• A personalised career path and a rewarding management style 
• A huge diversity of engineering projects and industries
• Private Medical Insurance
• Cycle & Tech Scheme 
• Employee assistance programme
• Life insurance & Pension Scheme
• Social atmosphere regular gatherings & team buildings
• Flexible way of working (role dependent)

We are proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant & actively encourage applications from members of the Armed Forces community including veterans reservists service leavers and military spouses/partners. We recognise the value of military skills and experience and are committed to ensuring that no applicant is unfairly disadvantaged during our recruitment and selection processes. 

ALTEN is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and values the strength that comes from a global mix of backgrounds and perspectives. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of background or protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process please let us know. 

This role may require you to have or be willing to go through Security Clearance. As part of the onboarding process candidates will be asked to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard; details of the evidence required to apply may be found on the government website . If you are unable to meet this and any associated criteria then your employment may be delayed or rejected . Details of this will be discussed with you at interview.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time