Senior Systems Engineer - Porton Down (SP4) – Permanent – Full-Time - On-site
- Salary £40,000 - £65,000 DOE
- 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
We’re expanding our team at Porton Down, Salisbury, supporting cutting-edge research, development, and operational delivery alongside our technical customer, Dstl. This role sits at the heart of a major national defence transformation programme, giving you direct access to end users and emerging operational challenges. You’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering new capabilities, contributing across design, integration, and test, both in the UK and internationally, using current and next-generation technologies.
Working embedded with the customer, you’ll operate with a high degree of autonomy and influence, translating real-world needs into robust requirements for development. You will be instrumental in driving successful deployment, verification, and validation activities, while growing into a trusted Subject Matter Expert and primary interface for stakeholders. This is a technical role where you are the direct point of contact for scientists, mathematicians, and physicists to discuss needs for future developments for synthetic test capability in the Electronic Warfare domain.
The invaluable experience you’ll bring
Joining as this major programme moves into implementation, you’ll work closely with users to elicit and evolve requirements, capturing these through clear, structured documents and models. You’ll provide ongoing support through delivery, applying Systems Engineering best practice to ensure designs remain aligned to operational need and adaptable to emerging requirements.
Essential:
- Systems Engineering
- System Design Documentation
- Basic understanding of Electronic Warfare principles
- Experience across the Engineering Delivery Lifecycle
- Requirements Management (DOORS/Enterprise Architect etc.)
Desirable:
- Systems Modelling (UML/SysML)
- Test and acceptance of integrated systems
- Coding experience (MATLAB/Simulink or similar)
- Defence Industry knowledge of EW systems
- Previous ex-Military experience with EW systems (operator, maintenance, support, or acquisition)
Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing you to flourish and to achieve your full potential. You are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing programmes and policies that support you as 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 SC-level security clearance
Apply today to see how working for MASS could work for you!