Summer Placement Test Systems Engineer

Your impact Are you ready to make an impact and gain hands-on experience working on real-world projects from day one? At Leonardo, we’re looking for summer placement students who want to be part of something extraordinary—shaping innovation, advancing technology, and enhancing global safety. Our placements are designed to help you apply your studies in a practical setting, develop your technical skills, and gain valuable insight into how our business operates.

The 13 weeks Summer Placement Programme gives you the chance to work on meaningful projects alongside subject matter experts, within multidisciplinary teams, and across the product lifecycle. Throughout your placement, you’ll receive coaching and support from a dedicated team, with the potential to return for future placements or progress onto our Graduate Development Programme. The programme will run from 01/06/2026 to 27/08/2027.

During your placement, we encourage you to spend at least three days each week on site to integrate with your team and maximise your learning experience.

• Support the delivery of small packages of work to time, cost, and quality.
• Collaborate with colleagues across multiple disciplines to help project targets and solve problems.
• Apply your academic knowledge to real projects, including design, testing, qualification and/or technology support.
• Share ideas and communicate with your team to share knowledge and gain insight into the Business.
• Develop your skills with the guidance of an experienced supervisor and the wider engineering community.

Entry Requirements Currently studying for a Bachelor’s/Integrated Master’s degree, or higher degree, such as MSc or PhD. For this role, acceptable degree disciplines include:
Electronics & Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Systems Engineering, Engineering Design, Product Design Engineering, Communications Engineering, Engineering Physics, Applied Physics & Engineering Science.

Competencies we look for Strong communication skills, written and verbal, digital, etc. Ability to solve technical problems. Be a self‑motivated individual, willing to take on new challenges. Computer literacy (MS Office).

Personal Attributes Enthusiastic and motivated. Curious with a desire to learn. Strong communicator and team player. Adaptable and resilient. Positive and professional approach to work.

Many of our roles are subject to security requirements and, where applicable, export control restrictions arising from UK Government requirements and customer obligations many of our roles are subject to security and export control restrictions set by UK Government Security requirements and customer obligations. As a result, and in line with the UK Government Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) requirements, all successful applicants will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record declaration information and employment and/or education history verification for the previous five years.

For staff operating in more sensitive posts, there is an additional range of personnel security controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV). As part of this process, a range of factors may be considered, including an individual's background, travel history, nationality, previous nationalities held and other information relevant to the vetting assessment. To be eligible for National Security Vetting at SC level, applicants will generally be expected to have continuously resided in the UK for the previous five years.

For DV clearance, this is typically ten years. In some circumstances, time spent overseas may be accepted,…