We are looking for analytical engineers to deliver the MBDA Hardware In The Loop mission statement; “To provide operational confidence through world-class, closed loop missile performance testing.”

Salary: Up to £55,000, depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: typically, 4 days per week on-site, due to workload classification

Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship.

Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

What we can offer you:

• Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
• Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
• Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
• Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
• Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more…

The Opportunity:

The Hardware In The Loop (HWIL) team provides an innovative capability to conduct dynamic missile firing simulations, using real hardware, in support of; product development, missile performance validation and de-risking firing trials.

You will have the opportunity to work within a state of the art national facility utilising target generation and flight motion equipment to exercise missile functionalities in close to real world scenarios. The HWIL test capabilities allow for injection of model data into missile sub-systems in real-time to simulate in-flight performance, target detection, acquisition and homing.

Due to the unique range of work in HWIL, your job role may vary week on week. Your overall aim will be to develop software ‘plug-ins’ to support and improve the real-time complex simulations which support missile testing and product development.

What you will be doing:

• Design and build real-time simulations for missile testing,
• Abstract detail to understand the simulation and missile behaviour,
• Work with the Linux operating system and programming languages like C/C++,
• Interact with relevant stakeholders across MBDA,
• Conduct experiments with real missile hardware and software,
• Analyse the missile performance and report on findings.

What we're looking for from you:

We have found that the best HWIL engineers have wide engineering experience, with knowledge in some (not necessarily all) of the skill areas listed below:

• Software design for real-time applications,
• Familiarity with Linux operating system,
• Familiarity in C / C++ programming languages,
• System integration & interface debugging,
• System performance analysis.

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