Your experience of developing complex systems design requirements, particularly for implementation in Software or Electronic Engineering will help you to develop futuristic Laser directed weapons systems, specifically looking at the Image Processing and Control subsystem. You will have the opportunity to work for a leading multi-national Defence systems provider which boasts some of most advanced facilities in their areas of expertise. A corporate benefits package and transparent career development opportunities are on offer within this vibrant Engineering environment.About the job:Our client is looking for system design engineers to work on be a boundary pushing weapon system development programme that has significant industry and customer engagement. This programme has been aimed at developing the UKs first Laser Directed Energy Weapon (LDEW) concept demonstrator, achieving significant success recently with several highly publicised trials activities.Their ambitious plans involve parallel and interleaved streams of pioneering technology experimentation and rapid weapon system development, providing opportunities across the key weapon system domains of Systems Engineering: requirements, design, performance analysis and certification.You will work on the Image Processing and Control subsystem.About you:As a System Design Engineer – Image Processing, you;

Must be familiar with Electronic Engineering requirements content, and experienced in handling embedded software or firmware requirements.
Must have experience of developing complex systems design requirements, particularly for implementation in software.

Ideally you will also have experience in some of these areas:

Manage system requirements, verification and compliance evolution against a rapid system baseline release schedule
Be able to generate detailed requirement sets on the basis of a variety of drivers and manage change over baselines
Support system requirement flow-down through to design and implementation teams
Initiate and drive risk quantification and mitigation activities as trade studies
Have the ability to support technical mediation, communicating issues, architectures and ideas at all levels and to varying degrees of specificity
Be a flexible systems thinker
Have the ability to disseminate technical information to stakeholders in an understandable manner
Have proven ability to deliver the required output with agreed timescales
Develop excellent working relationships with partners and key stakeholders as well as team members and other departments
Desire to develop, build and grow the Systems Design team and the people within it as the project develop
Experience of system architecting tools e.g. DOORS/DOORS NG/Rhapsody is desirable
Knowledge of lasers and/or optical physics would be beneficial
Passion and persistence to get a job done and done well

System Design Engineer – Image Processing and ControlBristolUp to £55000 (depending on experience) PermanentKeywords: Systems Engineer, System Design, Image processing, Control system, LDEW, Laser directed energy weapon, Weapons System, Sub-System, Command and Control, Missile System, Design, Requirements, DOORS, Systems Design, Systems Verification, Defence, Military.Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time. Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to sole British Citizens. Applicants who meet this criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, to SC level.This is a permanent position.

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