Sanderson
Senior System Engineer
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Senior Systems Engineer
Location: Burgess Hill (Hybrid Working)
Salary: £60,000 - £65,000 + 7.5% annual bonus
Hours: Monday - Friday 1pm finish on a Friday
We are seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join an innovative engineering team focused on delivering complex, next-generation technologies for the semiconductor sector. This is an exciting opportunity to influence product development from concept through to validation, industrialisation, and implementation while driving the adoption of best-practice systems engineering methodologies.
Working within multidisciplinary teams, you will provide technical leadership, manage system-level requirements, support strategic decision-making, and contribute to the development of future technology roadmaps.
The Role
As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will lead systems engineering activities across a range of complex projects, ensuring customer, technical, and business requirements are translated into robust system architectures and deliverable solutions.
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You will collaborate closely with product development, technology, applications, engineering, and programme teams to drive successful project outcomes while mentoring and supporting other engineers within the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Systems Engineering activities across multiple projects and programmes.
- Develop and implement systems engineering strategies aligned with system lifecycle processes.
- Capture and define stakeholder needs, translating them into clear and structured system requirements.
- Develop functional and logical architectures, diagrams, and engineering models.
- Contribute to validation and verification planning activities.
- Lead requirements management and technical integration activities throughout the product lifecycle.
- Support technical decision-making through trade-off analysis and risk management.
- Ensure effective collaboration between multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Coach, mentor, and develop engineers in Systems Engineering best practices.
- Drive continuous improvement and the adoption of Systems Engineering methodologies across the organisation.
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About You:
- Proven experience (5+ years) applying Systems Engineering principles within a complex engineering environment.
- Strong experience in requirements management and system-level design.
- Practical experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Experience defining stakeholder needs and translating them into system requirements and architectures.
- Strong understanding of system interfaces, integration, and multidisciplinary engineering collaboration.
- Experience implementing and embedding Systems Engineering processes and best practices.
- Previous experience coaching, mentoring, or training engineers.
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If you're a passionate Systems Engineer looking to make a significant impact within a highly innovative engineering environment, we'd love to hear from you.
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