Job description
Senior Systems Engineer – Communications Technology
Location: Cambridgeshire (on-site with some flexibility)
Sector: Communications / Engineering
Type: Permanent
The Opportunity A leading global technology business, with decades of experience delivering advanced communications solutions, is seeking a Systems Engineer to join their product development team. This role plays a pivotal part across the full product lifecycle, from requirements capture through to verification and validation, ensuring products meet the highest standards of performance and compliance.
Key Responsibilities
Location: Cambridgeshire (on-site with some flexibility)
Sector: Communications / Engineering
Type: Permanent
The Opportunity A leading global technology business, with decades of experience delivering advanced communications solutions, is seeking a Systems Engineer to join their product development team. This role plays a pivotal part across the full product lifecycle, from requirements capture through to verification and validation, ensuring products meet the highest standards of performance and compliance.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with hardware and software teams to ensure product functionality and interface performance.
- Analyse customer and technical requirements; contribute to system architecture reviews.
- Lead system-level test, acceptance, and compliance activities.
- Ensure projects follow structured engineering processes (V-model).
- Support risk management processes and apply them appropriately to engineering programmes.
- Work with cross-functional stakeholders to align current and future system needs.
- Promote commonality and compatibility across systems.
- Ensure best practice is followed in design, development, and validation.
- Degree (1st or 2:1) in a relevant engineering or technical discipline.
- Extensive experience of the full product development lifecycle.
- Strong knowledge of communications systems specification, design, or test.
- Understanding of network technologies and system integration.
- Electronics or RF knowledge, ideally with VHF/UHF communications systems exposure.
- Experience in design engineering within advanced, high-reliability technical environments.
- Familiarity with compliance, verification, and validation methodologies.
- Awareness of cybersecurity considerations within system design.
- Ability to decompose high-level requirements into detailed use cases and system functions.
- Experience in navigation or surveillance systems.
- Strong systems thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
- Flexible working hours.
- Competitive pension contributions.
- Enhanced annual leave entitlement.
- Private healthcare and wellbeing support.
- Long-service and recognition awards.
- Training and continuous learning opportunities.
- Free parking and additional lifestyle benefits.