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Electronic Warfare Systems Engineer Porton Down (SP4) Perm - Full Time On-site Salary £50,000 - £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 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 continuing to grow our team at Porton Down, Salisbury, working on key state-of-the-art research, development, and delivery projects, led by our technical customer, Dstl. You will help with the design, implementation, and support of new capabilities, as well as participate in local and worldwide trials using both existing and future technology. Working autonomously with unprecedented access to the customer, you will be crucial to ensuring the success of deployment, verification, and validation. You will develop into the Subject Matter Expert (SME), acting as the primary point of contact for stakeholder enquiries. The invaluable experience you ll bring Joining a large project in its early phases, you will be needed to gather stakeholder use cases and write requirements specifications (URD and SRDs). This will mean providing ongoing support and continuous assistance during deployment to help with these design activities, leveraging your Model Based Systems Engineering (UML/SysML/Archimate) skills. Essential: Systems Engineering System Design Documentation Systems Modelling (UML/SysML ) Test and acceptance of integrated systems Experience across the Engineering Delivery Lifecycle Requirements Management (DOORS/Enterprise Architect etc.) Desirable: Coding experience (JavaScript or MATLAB/Simulink) 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 DV-level security clearance Apply today to see how working for MASS could work for you!

Senior RF Test Engineer St Neots (PE19) - Permanent - Onsite £45,000 - £58,000 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 RF Test Engineer at a state-of-the-art test and evaluation facility at our head office in St Neots, Cambridgeshire. 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 models, applying doctrinal methods to simulation scenarios. 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, you will be crucial to ensure the success of key projects, all whilst being supported by our on-site MASS teams. This role works closely with our customers and your knowledge and technical insights will help shape planning, development, integration, and delivery of crucial national and international synthetic trials. The invaluable experience you ll bring , to help us achieve more. Essential: Experience creating test scripts/programmes (e.g. MATLAB, Python, or LabView). Understanding of synthetic testing environments. Operation of test equipment in a laboratory environment (e.g. Oscilloscopes, Signal Generators, Spectrum/Network Analysers). Experience with Direct Signal Injection (DSI) testing. Experience of analogue and digital RF circuitry. Strong background in EW systems and concepts, including radar systems. Working autonomously and tasking junior engineers. STEM Degree or extensive relevant experience / technical aptitude. Desirable: Doctrinal experience with EW systems (e.g. radar, command and control, targeting and effectors). Experience Integration/calibration of hardware and software models into a laboratory environment. Creation of laboratory procedures. Version controlling hardware and software components. Experience working on agile projects. Experience mentoring junior engineers. 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 SC-level security clearance Apply today to see how working for MASS could work for you!

RF Test Engineer St Neots (PE19) - Permanent - Onsite £38,000 - £48,000 25 days annual leave inclusive of up to 3 days Christmas shutdown 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 continuing to grow our team at our head office in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, working on key state-of-the-art research, development, and delivery projects, led by our technical customer, Dstl. The primary role is to support integration testing of RF systems (including calibration, antenna models, and automated test scripts) in our complex synthetic environments. As a key stage of product delivery, you will focus on system level testing across a variety of simulated scenarios, injecting signals into a System Under Test (SUT) to verify and validate its performance. The role will require technical autonomy, liaising with military stakeholders, academia, industry and international partners, to assess the performance of receiver hardware, developing improvements, and providing advice. A secondary focus will be on development and implementation of test scripts to ensure the scenario and SUT performance is captured and understood. These scripts will be deployed to a variety of test equipment (Oscilloscopes, Signal Generators, Spectrum Analysers, and other Special to Type) providing a complete picture to the customer of system performance. This role will give you a unique opportunity to act as an end user/operator of threat models participating in scenarios, applying doctrine, reacting to events, and learning these systems in detail. This task will give unrivalled access to our customers, as well as international partners, with several trials being run each year utilising these models. Working with minimal oversight, you will be crucial to ensure the success of these key projects, all whilst being supported by our on-site MASS teams. This is a high visibility role, providing excellent opportunities to talented and enthusiastic candidates. The invaluable experience you ll bring, to help us achieve more. Essential: Experience of analogue or digital RF circuitry. Operation of test equipment in a laboratory environment (e.g. Oscilloscopes, Signal Generators, Spectrum/Network Analysers). Coding experience (e.g. MATLAB, Python, or LabView). Experience completing Verification & Validation activities. STEM Degree or extensive experience with RF Electronics. Desirable: Background in EW systems and concepts, including radar systems. Previous experience working in synthetic testing environments. Experience using or creating automation scripts. Knowledge of network architecture. Knowledge of hardware acceleration technologies. Awareness of simulation and rendering engines (e.g. Unreal, Unity etc.) 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 SC-level security clearance Apply today to see how working for MASS could work for you!