Systems Engineer

Date Posted:

2026-11-06



Country:

United Kingdom



Location:

Plymouth, Plymouth



Position Role Type:

Hybrid

Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon Technologies company, is a world leader in advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defence industries. With a comprehensive inertial sensing and integrated navigation technology portfolio and deep domain expertise, we deliver cutting-edge systems that solve our customers’ toughest stabilisation, flight control and navigation challenges and help shape the future of aviation and defence.

This is a hybrid role based at our Plymouth site, where we design and manufacture control, navigation, and guidance systems for both air and surface applications. Our world-class products include MEMS-based Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) and the TERPROM® Digital Terrain Reference Navigation System.

Our growth plan includes development and extension of our current technologies into state of the art military and civil aircraft applications and we’re looking for exceptional engineers to join us on that journey.

As a Systems Engineer, you’ll play a key role in developing, integrating and validating complex embedded systems. Working across hardware, software and mechanical domains, you’ll contribute to projects from concept through to delivery, taking responsibility for defined engineering activities and independently delivering assigned technical tasks while collaborating with experienced engineers on more complex challenges.

What You Will Do

Your day-to-day will include:

• Working with our customers and key stakeholders to understand, analyse and capture system-level use cases, concepts of operations and requirements.
• Contributing to the development of system architecture, including requirements decomposition and design activities.
• Interfacing with stakeholders across Systems, Software, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and developing requirement specifications for each component of the system, within assigned areas of responsibility.
• Supporting system integration for real-time embedded systems, including hardware/software interfaces, taking ownership of defined integration activities.
• Ensuring requirement-to-requirement and requirements-to-test traceability for assigned requirements throughout the design.
• Developing test cases and procedures against requirements and executing tests, including analysing results and identifying technical issues.
• Applying logical and innovative problem-solving across software, hardware and system levels, independently resolving defined technical problems and collaborating with senior engineers on more complex challenges.
• Providing inputs to project planning, estimations and progress reporting, including managing progress against assigned technical deliverables.

What You Will Learn

At Collins Aerospace, your career development is as important as our technical innovation. You’ll benefit from:

• Exposure to cutting-edge navigation and sensing technologies.
• Mentorship and training from industry-leading experts.
• Opportunities to work on mission-critical systems used globally.
• A supportive environment that encourages continuous learning and career progression.

Qualifications & Experience

• Degree qualification in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics, Aerospace Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated experience as a Systems Engineer, covering the full development lifecycle.
• Strong requirements analysis and an understanding of requirements management processes.
• Experience of creating test plans, test cases and procedures and executing test programmes.
• Familiarity with requirements management tools such as DOORS (or Jama or similar).
• Familiarity with version control systems (SVN, Git, Teamwork Cloud).

Skills & Experience We Value

• Experience with SysML tools such as Enterprise Architect (or Cameo) is preferred.
• Ability to read and interpret schematics.
• Data analysis.
• Awareness of Control Systems Engineering.
• Awareness of Digital Signal Processing.
• Familiarity with platforms that utilise inertial sensors and associated requirements.
• Experience using COTS test equipment in a lab environment (oscilloscopes, bus analysers, etc.).
• Familiarity with hardware-in-the-loop testing.
• MATLAB.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Excellent 2:1 matched pension contribution (up to 10%).
• Private healthcare and life assurance.
• 25 days annual leave plus the option to buy or sell up to 5 days.
• Early finish Fridays and a culture that values work life balance.
• Ongoing career development, mentorship, and world class training.

Learn More & Apply Now!

Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionised systems for specialised aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you’ll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customers succeed today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today. 

Hybrid: Employees who are working in Hybrid roles will work regularly both onsite and offsite. Ratio of time working onsite will be determined in partnership with your leader.

Note: The successful candidate must hold an active or be willing and eligible to obtain SC level security clearance. Please note that access to certain projects may be restricted based on nationality.

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