Systems Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: In-office at Aviation Business Park, Bournemouth International Airport, Christchurch, Dorset, United Kingdom. Regular in-person work with engineers and physical equipment is required; occasional UK and international travel, including overnight stays, may be required.

Salary: Attractive salary package; exact amount not specified.

Company

hirify.global powered by Spherea provides test, quality and validation solutions for complex and safety-critical aerospace, defence and technology products and systems.

What you will do

• Work with customers and stakeholders to define operational needs, test objectives, concepts of operation, use cases and verifiable system and subsystem requirements.
• Establish requirements baselines and traceability, manage assumptions and changes, and assess technical, cost and schedule impacts.
• Develop system concepts, functional and physical architectures, interfaces and multidisciplinary allocations across hardware, software, mechanical and operational elements.
• Lead or support trade-off studies, technical reviews, risk mitigation and lifecycle design decisions covering manufacturability, integration, testing, safety, reliability and supportability.
• Develop verification and validation strategies, test plans, procedures and acceptance documentation, maintaining requirements-to-verification evidence.
• Support integration testing, debugging, technical investigations, customer demonstrations, factory acceptance, installation, commissioning and in-service support.

Requirements

• Degree, HNC or HND in electronic, electrical, aerospace engineering or a related discipline.
• Relevant systems engineering experience or equivalent practical experience in a related engineering discipline.
• Ability to work directly with customers to elicit, clarify and manage technical requirements and acceptance expectations.
• Experience translating needs into system requirements, architectures, interfaces and verification approaches.
• Understanding of multidisciplinary engineered systems and the lifecycle from concept and design through integration, verification, acceptance and support.
• Ability to analyse technical trade-offs, manage requirements traceability and change, identify risks and maintain alignment between requirements, design and verification evidence.
• Experience contributing to technical reviews, test planning, integration, fault investigation or acceptance activities.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication and collaborative-working skills, with initiative to pursue missing information and resolve uncertainty.
• Comfort working alongside engineering teams and physical test equipment, willingness to travel occasionally in the UK and internationally, and right to work in the UK.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain the UK national security clearance required for the role; projects may also impose additional nationality, residency or export-control restrictions.

Nice to have

• Experience in aerospace, defence, space, rail, energy or another regulated sector, including automated or special-to-type test equipment.
• Experience with electronic, electrical, software-controlled or electromechanical systems, data acquisition, instrumentation, control or test-system integration.
• Requirements-management tools, formal design reviews, verification and validation, factory or site acceptance, and commissioning.
• Legacy-system modernisation, obsolescence, maintainability and long-life equipment support.
• Experience working with international teams, customers or delivery partners.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative and supportive team with international reach.
• Generous pension scheme with 4% employee and 8% employer contributions.
• Full family healthcare plan, family health cash plan, 27 days of holiday plus bank holidays, life assurance and income protection insurance.
• Continuous learning and professional growth opportunities.
• ESG-focused organisation supporting people, planet and performance.