Principal RF Test Engineer Farnborough
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 a new team that you will lead at a state-of-the-art test and evaluation facility at a client site in Farnborough .
You will be the primary technical contact customers will liaise with when planning trials.
You willhelp plan and supportdomestic and international trialswithin the facility,while working with both present and future technology. You will be responsible for leading the development of the laboratory, ensuring integration of new capabilities, assets and test equipment is successful and controlled.
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 youll bring, to help us achieve more:
Joining a large project at the initial stages, you will lead a small dynamic team in the setup, operation, scheduling, and development of the synthetic test laboratory 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 creating test scripts/programmes (e.g. LabView, Python, MATLAB).
* Understanding of synthetic testing environments.
* Experience Integration/calibration of hardware and software models into a laboratory environment.
* Operation of entity models through GUIs (understanding mission objectives for each model).
* Technical management of a production laboratory, including support for customer trials.
* Leading and managing a small team of engineers.
* STEM Degree or extensive relevant experience.
Desirable:
* EW Domain Knowledge
* Creation of laboratory procedures.
* Experience managing both analogue and digital interfaces between electronic components (RF/EO/Data).
* Use of laboratory equipment (Vector Signal Analysers, Signal Generators & Oscilloscopes).
* Understanding of RF/EOIR systems and sensors.
* Version controlling hardware and software components.
* Mentoring & coaching of junior engineers.
* Experience working on agile projects.
Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowingemployees 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 supportindividuals 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 GovernmentDV-levelsecurity clearance
Apply today to see how working for MASS could work for you!
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