Systems Engineer

Job Description:

SECURITY CLEARANCE:
Eligibility to gain UK SC Security Clearance

TRAVEL REQUIRED:

Approximately once a month, depending on projects

LOCATION:

Stevenage TYPE:
Full time, STEM returners are welcomed

• Competitive salary
• annual profit share
• contributory pension
• share options
• car leasing scheme
• free onsite parking
• tax-free technology scheme
• discounted shopping and much more

• 37 hour week
• flexible working around core hours
• hybrid working
• up to 2 additional days per month as TOIL

There are no core hours on Friday afternoons.

Employees may use this flexibility at their discretion, provided they fulfil their contractual working hours and meet business needs (such as urgent deadlines or client requirements).

• Personalised development plan
• unlimited access to 10,000+ E-learning courses, internal mobility including international opportunities

• Wellbeing benefits (including 24/7 online GP and mental health support)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• discounted family health / dental insurance / eye tests
• cycle-to-work scheme
• on-site canteen and coffee shop
• lunchtime pilates

• Life assurance
• enhanced pay for parental leave (23 weeks at 100% pay)
• adoption / shared parental / caregiving leave

• Wellbeing room
• Multi-faith room
• Employee Representative Groups (Gender, LGBTQ+, International, Generational, Disability, Social & Cultural Diversity, Neurodiversity)

Our world is changing, and so is the mission to protect it. At Airbus, we pioneer for a safe and united world. That means developing cutting-edge sustainable aircraft, and it also means creating the technology that safeguards the sovereignty of nations and the digital space. Your work here defends what matters. So, what's your next mission?

This is genuinely a role that doesn’t arise often. Are you a Systems Engineer with a passion for Space? Looking for a role where you can learn about and shape new satellite technologies? Love working on new, short term, projects on a regular basis? Then we have a role for you! You will be joining a small group with a start-up feel within the Airbus world working on space missions from concept through early-phase design supporting the growth of new programmes.

You will work closely with a range of customers, Universities and small companies to explore futuristic highly technical products that’ll shape the future of the UK Space domain.

Define early mission architectures, leading feasibility studies both from a technical and project management standpoint, and contributing to winning new business opportunities through both technical and bid management.

Depending on your skills and passions this role can focus on one or more of the following:

• Mission Concept & Early-Phase Design
  - Develop end-to-end mission concepts including system-level trade studies and define architecture
• Future Programmes & Innovation
  - Identify and develop new mission and technology opportunities. Engage with partners, agencies, and customers.
• Bids, Proposals & Customer Engagement
  - Support and lead technical aspects of bids and proposals. Present concepts to internal stakeholders and external customers. Collaborate with commercial, legal, finance, procurement and other technical teams.
• Systems Engineering Leadership - Apply systems engineering principles across early lifecycle phases. Ensure concepts are technically credible, cost-effective, and deliverable. Perform mission analysis with Modelling & Simulation tools

Experience of technical studies. Strong Systems Engineering background from Space, Aerospace, Advanced Manufacturing, or similar. Experience of…