Senior Systems Engineer - Wireless Communications

hackajob is partnering directly with Leonardo to hire for this role.

Job Description:

Are you a Systems Engineer who loves contributing to or wishes to contribute to the UKs Defence Industry and making impactful change? We are recruiting for a Systems Engineer to investigate and develop different approaches for the design of airborne networks. This includes researching, proposing, and analysing the results of simulations to design and create standardisation proposals.

Your impact

Our Systems Engineers span across range of activities that help pull together all the necessary engineering and technology strands into a high-performance system. As a Systems Engineer, you will bridge the gap between the theoretically possible and the practically implementable.

Typical work you might be involved in:

Research into meshed, ad-hoc, and other network technologies

Designing and documenting proposed protocols for standardisation of networking technologies

Proposing and designing simulations & model for potential networking technologies, presenting your ideas to team colleagues and international partners

Implementing simulations and analysing & documenting the results

Providing regular reporting to the Project Engineering Lead (PEL) and other Integrated Project Team (IPT) members

What youll bring

Proven experience as a Systems Engineer within a working environment or advanced academic research experience is a must. Ideally, you will have an engineering-based or science-based Honours degree or equivalent experience.

Required

Related Engineering, Computer Science degree, or similar.

Knowledge of system engineering principles and model-based systems engineering

Knowledge of networking fundamentals, including network protocols, routing algorithms, and their use cases.

Experience with wireless communication technologies.

Software engineering techniques, including Python or C++ programming.

Good interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate ideas to varied audiences.

The ability to design meaningful simulations and interpret the results.

Optional

Knowledge of Protocol Design and Algorithm Design

Knowledge of ad-hoc networking, particularly within the sub-domain of FANETs

Knowledge of common network simulatio...