Location:  Bedford, England

Salary:  GBP34 - GBP43 per hour

Systems Engineer - Defence

Duration: 6 Months
Rate: 34 - 43ph

Required skills:
Understanding and experience of a software focussed systems engineering lifecycle and the corresponding tools, techniques and artefacts underpinning delivery of certified product.
The design, development, test and exploitation of mathematical models used to predict the dynamic behaviour of systems including air platforms, weapons, rounds and fragmentation.
The ownership and delivery of complete tasks from requirements elicitation and proposal development, through data capture, model setup and exploitation, results analysis and reporting.

Desired skills:
The development and use of aerodynamic data in the model based characterisation of air system dynamic behaviour.
Awareness of the role and implications of different numerical techniques in the model based prediction of air system dynamics.
Monte-Carlo modelling approaches and the corresponding derivation of statistical confidence levels for derived predictions.
Characterisation of warhead fragmentation.

The Systems Engineer role will involve working on UK classified programmes the candidate must therefore be willing and able to obtain a security clearance.