Systems Engineer

2 months ago


Reading, United Kingdom Thales Full time
Location: Reading, United Kingdom

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you; whether that's part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

Due to continued growth an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Systems Engineer within Thales OME based in Reading. As a Systems Engineer you will be able to work autonomously to contribute towards the systems engineering design activities throughout the engineering project involving:
  • Definition of Systems Requirements for the product
  • Creation of design documentation capturing the systems engineering design
  • Definition of the internal and external interfaces of the system
  • Functional definition of system behaviour
  • Development of test procedures to support the verification of the system
  • Carrying out integration and verification testing against test procedures
  • Conducting activities to gather evidence that the systems requirements have been achieved
  • Supporting the wider engineering team by sharing knowledge

The successful candidate will be a good communicator who is proactive and able to constructively challenge ideas and concepts and have experience in:
  • Working as part of a multi-disciplinary design team
  • Defining systems interfaces, boundaries and other external factors that would impact on design Requirements Engineering (elicitation, decomposition and analysis)
  • Analysing the operational concepts of a system

It would be beneficial if you have:
  • Experience of the decomposition of a systems design to sub-system level
  • Experience or knowledge of systems modelling techniques
  • Experience of analysing potential solutions against the key needs in a design brief
  • Experience of using design analysis techniques (trade-off analysis, calculations, modelling and simulation, etc.)

This role will report to the Discipline Manager for Systems Engineering.

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At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

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