Systems Engineer

National Physical Laboratory Tewkesbury, England This week

Type Full Time
Pay Not listed
Work Onsite

Systems Engineer focuses on supporting early lifecycle systems engineering activities, including concept definition, functional decomposition, and requirements development.

What the role involves

  • Supporting early lifecycle systems engineering activities, including concept definition, functional decomposition, and requirements development.
  • Defining system and subsystem architectures, including boundaries, interfaces, and packaging in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.
  • Modelling and analysing system behaviour, interfaces, and performance to inform design decisions and reduce technical risk.
  • Identifying, assessing, and communicating technical risks, assumptions, and trade-offs clearly and proportionately.
  • Producing clear, structured systems engineering artefacts (requirements, architectures, models) in line with internal processes, to time, cost, and quality.
  • Design decisions across the product lifecycle.

Skills and requirements

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Candidate fit

  • Together, these services form the backbone of modern society - and your leadership will help ensure they remain secure, reliable and robust even if global navigation satellite syst.

Additional role context

  • Our world-leading Time & Frequency department is seeking a experienced Systems Engineer with proven expertise in application of Systems Engineering principles and systems developme.
  • This is an exceptional opportunity to join the global authority in precision timing at a defining moment for UK digital infrastructure.
  • Wider digital and data-driven operations.
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