Gold Group Ltd
Senior System Engineer

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Role: Senior Systems Engineer
Location: Ampthill, Bedfordshire – on-site
Rate: £50.00 - £75.00 per hour Inside IR35
Duration: 12 months
Experienced Senior Systems Engineer needed on contract in Ampthill, Bedfordshire to work on cutting-edge systems within the defence industry.
Candidates will need to be eligible for SC clearance; 5+ years’ UK residency and UK nationality.
What the role of the Senior Systems Engineer entails:
Specific role scope will be subject to assigned programme but will include a range of systems engineering activities:
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- Classical requirements management and development.
- Verification Planning.
- MBSE.
- Trade Studies.
- Research Projects.
What experience you need to be the successful Senior Systems Engineer:
- Experience of systems engineering lifecycle through the life of a large-scale systems development programme, ideally in the Command & Control domain.
- Experience of modelling and simulation (Matlab/Simulink).
- Experience in the Verification and Validation lifecycle.
- Development of Verification & Acceptance (V&A) statements.
- Knowledge of Comms & RF Network Architectures.
- Change proposal assessment and embodiment.
- Working understanding of relevant Def-Stan, MIL-STD and industry best practice.
- Understand nuances of system limitations and behaviours at system level.


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