Systems Engineer - Nuclear Hardening

Overview

In this role, you contribute to high-assurance defense systems by applying radiation and nuclear hardening expertise to end-to-end architectures. You will work within a collaborative team on long-term projects, shaping how protected equipment performs in harsh environments. Your work links requirements, design, verification, and customer engagement to deliver safe, reliable systems. The position offers meaningful impact across MOD, SATCOM, and space-related domains with opportunities for development and international mobility.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salary
• annual profit share
• contributory pension
• car leasing scheme
• hybrid working
• flexible hours and TOIL

Responsibilities

• Elicit and validate Nuclear Hardening requirements across the system lifecycle
• Identify mitigations for NH requirements based on installation context
• Assess NH processes in military fixed ground environments and derive responses
• Produce NH analyses and mitigation/test plans
• Lead customer and test house engagements to define NH approach
• Deliver safe, cost-efficient, reliable systems throughout the product lifecycle
• Collaborate with IS/IT specialists to design architectures with appropriate trade-offs

Key requirements

• Radiation Hardening / Nuclear Hardening experience at systems level
• Understanding of radiation impact on communications equipment
• Verification and validation (V&V) experience

• Enjoys working with complex technical solutions
• ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences
• passion for defense communications and safeguarding equipment in harsh environments
• Radiation Hardening / Nuclear Hardening (systems level)
• Requirements elicitation and validation
• NH risk mitigation and test planning

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