Electro Optic Systems Engineer

Job Description

Salary Range:

Senior Systems Engineer £44,500 – £56,000

Principal Systems Engineer £53,500 – £68,000

Where this vacancy is being recruited across more than one grade, the successful candidate will be appointed to a specific assessed grade, and the applicable salary range will be that associated with the grade of appointment.

Leonardo UK operates a grade-based salary framework with broad bands. The salary range shown reflects the approved grade band for this role, or a narrower hiring range published within that band, and is benchmarked against the external market. Exceptions above the standard range are managed through governance controls to protect internal equity.

Your impact

The Systems Function is seeking experienced Senior and Principal Systems Engineers to join the MIMAS Transition Phase Engineering Team.

As a Senior or Principal Systems Engineer within the MIMAS Transition Phase Engineering Team, you will play a key role in shaping future Electro-Optic (EO) system concepts and designs. Through the development and application of EO performance models, you will generate the evidence needed to define, challenge and validate product requirements, helping the business make informed engineering decisions at the earliest stages of the lifecycle.

Your work will directly influence system architectures, technology selections and design parameters, ensuring proposed solutions are underpinned by robust analysis and structured trade studies.

What you’ll do

• Deliver EO modelling tasks to support system concept development, requirements definition and design validation
• Conduct sensitivity analyses and trade studies to evaluate design options and inform system parameters, such as aperture size.
• Generate robust technical evidence to support requirements development, verification and validation activities.
• Ensure modelling activities are configured, documented and managed.
• Translate system requirements into modelling approaches and use modelling outputs to inform design decisions and requirements evolution.
• Present technical recommendations, progress updates and risks clearly and effectively to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams to develop coherent and technically robust EO system solutions.
• Scope and define modelling activities to support programme objectives.