Radar Health Systems Engineer

Company: Leonardo DRS
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Location: Edinburgh
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you will lead the technical delivery of radar system design and integration for the ECRS Mk2 program. You will work within a multidisciplinary team to translate customer requirements into robust, high‑performing system functions and LRI interfaces. You’ll influence architecture decisions, MBSE practices, and ensure reliability, maintainability, and testability. This is an opportunity to shape complex aerospace systems in a collaborative, cross‑functional environment that values innovation and safe operation.

Pay / Benefits

  • pension scheme with employer contributions
  • flexible/hybrid working
  • 12 additional flexi‑days per year
  • mental health support and wellbeing resources
  • 4,000+ online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn Learning
  • private healthcare and lifestyle discounts

Responsibilities

  • Analyse customer requirements and define system functions
  • Own delivery of work packages including built‑in‑test, failure management, power‑up/shutdown sequencing, state management, data management, and security features
  • Contribute to system architecture and LRI function allocation using MBSE tools (Cameo)
  • Author system, LRI, and subdomain requirements and tests
  • Define LRI interfaces and ensure coherent design across subsystems
  • Allocate system functionality to hardware, firmware, and software; support integration and testing
  • Provide technical direction and best‑practice guidance; mentor/line‑manage engineers as needed

Key requirements

  • Understanding of full‑lifecycle Systems Engineering principles
  • Experience in designing and capturing complex hardware, firmware, and/or software interactions
  • Ability to work independently and with a multidisciplinary team to solve complex engineering challenges
  • Experience in writing and managing technical requirements
  • Cross‑disciplinary collaboration
  • Mentoring and coaching (potential line management)
  • Problem solving in uncertain design contexts
  • Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
  • SysML
  • MagicGrid (architectural framework)

Posted: September 14th, 2026