Senior RF Test Engineer – Farnborough (GU14) - Perm
- 25 days annual leave inclusive of up to 3 days Christmas shut-down
- Buy or sell up to 5 days’ annual leave
- Annual Wellbeing allowance
- Two pension schemes to choose from
- Private Medical Insurance + discounts for additional family members
- Life Assurance scheme up to 4 x salary
- Share Save scheme
- Electric/Hybrid Car leasing scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Retail discounts
- Career development support
Come and join our expanding Electronic Warfare Operations Support Group (EWOS) which is made up of 60+electronic warfare specialists. From all manner of backgrounds, our engineers, scientists, and ex-military personnel combine their experience to help our customers achieve the true operational potential and help keep their people and platforms safe.
We are building anew team led by our Principal Synthetic Environment Test Engineer at a state-of-the-art test and evaluation facility at a client site in Farnborough. You will help plan and support domestic and international trials within the facility, while working with both present and future technology. You will become a SME in the operation of software and hardware digital twin models.
You will play a crucial part integrating, configuring and verifying performance of a wide range of components used within a laboratory environment. This will involve the generation of test programmes using a variety of test equipment.
You will assist in running laboratory trials, ensuring customers can validate the performance of assets within a synthetic test environment.
Working autonomously at Farnborough with unprecedented access to the customer, recognising and relaying customer requests, demands, and comments to our Lincoln location and as the project progresses, given on-site presence, you will be crucial to ensure that deployment, verification, and validation are successful. You will develop into the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the project facility acting as the main point of contact for stakeholder queries.
The invaluable experience you’ll bring, to help us achieve more:
Joining a large project at the initial stages, you will be an integral part of a small dynamic team involved in the setup, test and teardown of the simulation environment, to achieve key stakeholder milestones.
This will mean you will be expected to bring your experience to nurture and coach junior team members to bring out their full potential.
Essential experience:
- Experience creating test scripts/programmes (e.g. LabView, Python, MATLAB).
- Understanding of synthetic testing environments.
- Operation of entity models through GUIs (understanding mission objectives for each model).
- Use of laboratory equipment (Vector Signal Analysers, Signal Generators & Oscilloscopes).
- STEM Degree or extensive relevant experience / technical aptitude.
Desirable experience:
- EW Domain Knowledge
- Experience Integration/calibration of hardware and software models into a laboratory environment.
- Creation of laboratory procedures.
- Experience managing both analogue and digital interfaces between electronic components (RF).
- Understanding of RF or EOIR systems and sensors.
- Version controlling hardware and software components.
- Experience working on agile projects.
Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. Our people are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing programmes and policies that support individuals including, mental health first aiders and readily available support through our extensive employee assistance programme.
Our Non-negotiables:
Due to the highly secure nature of the projects that you will be involved with, you must be:
- A UK National and eligible to work in the UK
- Eligible to obtain and maintain a UK Government DV-level security clearance
Apply today to see how working for MASS could work for you!