Research Engineer – Electrical

Overview

As Electrical System Engineer at GKN Aerospace, you will join the Electrical Network team within the Global Technology Centre to advance hydrogen-based, sustainable aerospace power systems. You will help define and verify system-level electrical requirements across the product lifecycle, collaborating in a multidisciplinary environment to ensure performance, safety, and certification. You’ll work on architecture, modelling, simulation, and testing to demonstrate system behaviour and reliability. This role offers meaningful impact shaping next-gen aerospace power solutions and sustaining our industry leadership.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Industry Leading Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance 8 x salary
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Flexible working hours
• Cycle To Work Scheme

Responsibilities

• Capture and analyse stakeholder, customer, regulatory and certification requirements
• Decompose high-level needs into subsystem and component requirements
• Support development and maintenance of electrical system architectures and interfaces
• Develop system models to evaluate behaviour and performance
• Run simulations to assess functionality, efficiency, control strategies and failure responses
• Conduct trade studies to inform design decisions
• Create test specifications, procedures and acceptance criteria
• Support lab, rig, subsystem and system-level testing activities

Key requirements

• B.Eng degree or equivalent
• Experience in systems requirements elicitation and analysis
• Strong understanding of safety assurance practices for safety-critical systems (FTA, FHAs, FMEAs, bow-ties)
• Experience with a requirements management tool (Codebeamer, Polarion, DOORs)

• Learning mindset; comfortable with ambiguity
• Collaborative mindset and cross-functional teamwork
• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking
• Matlab
• Simulink
• Requirements management tools (Codebeamer, Polarion, DOORs)

…