The Planet Group
System Engineer
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The Planet Group
The Planet Group have recently been engaged by a market leading manufacturer of high-tech sensors who are looking for a Contract Systems Engineer to join the team on an initial 6-month contract based in Plymouth.
The project will likely extend long term, and we would like to have this operating on a hybrid pattern with 2 days per week onsite to support business needs.
Key Activities
- Requirements generation and management.
- Development of systems verification procedures and completion of verification test activities.
- Interface with stakeholders on many factors covering Systems, Software, Electrical & Mechanical engineering.
Essential Responsibilities
- Providing inputs to project planning, estimations and progress reporting.
- Systems requirements definition, management and validation.
- Systems integration – real-time embedded systems, hardware/software.
- Systems verification – test procedure development, requirements to test traceability, unit-based testing.
- To understand hardware and embedded software architectures and implementations, and the interfaces between each other.
- Be aware of internal (board/board or processor/peripheral) and external (unit to unit/network) data bus standards.
- Logical and innovative problem-solving skills that can span systems/software/hardware.
- Understanding of Industrial, Automotive and Aerospace standards.
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Key Requirements
- Established experience working as a Systems Engineer through the full development life cycle.
- Competence with SYSML management tools such as EA (or Cameo) is preferred.
- Strong understanding of requirement capture.
- Be able to read and interpret schematics.
- Previous experience utilising DOORS (or similar) to manage requirements.
- Experience with version control e.g. SVN, Git.
- Data analysis and algorithm development experience, including use of Matlab.
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Desirable Skills
- Experience or knowledge of solid-state (MEMS) gyroscopes and accelerometers.
- Electrical or software design and development experience.
- Able to use an emulator for on chip debugging.
- Able to use COTS TE (‘scope, bus analysers etc.) in lab environment.
You must be eligible for BPSS (Baseline Clearance) to be considered for this position. If you would like to find out more, please apply in the first instance.
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