Systems Engineer - Defence

About the Position

Join ALTEN Ltd as a Systems Engineer in Glasgow, where you’ll work at the forefront of advanced opto-electronic and sensor systems supporting some of the UK’s most critical maritime and avionics defence platforms. You’ll play a key role in delivering next-generation sensing capabilities that enhance situational awareness and operational resilience.

Location: Glasgow

On-site: Hybrid 3/4 Days per week (Glasgow or Edinburgh)

Seniority: 5+ Years of Relevant Experience

Security Clearance: Candidates must be willing and eligible to obtain SC clearance.

Responsibilities

• Deliver systems engineering activities across the full V-model lifecycle, including requirements, design, integration, verification, and validation
• Capture, manage, and maintain system requirements within DOORS, ensuring full traceability to design and test
• Support and lead system integration activities across embedded software and sensor subsystems
• Define system architectures, interfaces, and functional behavior
• Contribute to integration and system-level test strategy, including planning and execution
• Participate in design reviews, technical governance, and risk-based decision making
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across software, hardware, and systems engineering
• Support through-life engineering, including defect management, upgrades, and configuration control

Requirements

Required Skills

• Strong experience in systems engineering within defence, aerospace, or safety-critical environments
• Proven experience working on the left-hand side of the V-model (requirements, design, architecture)
• Hands-on experience with requirements engineering (elicitation, decomposition, traceability)
• Experience using DOORS or similar requirements management tools
• Strong understanding of system interfaces, boundaries, and integration challenges
• Experience supporting integration, verification, and validation of complex systems

Soft Skills & Collaboration

• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset
• Confident communicator within multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Proactive, self-starting approach to delivering engineering solutions
• Comfortable working in structured, process-driven environments

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, or relevant technical military background with equivalent experience.

Desirable Skills

• Experience with opto-electronic, optical, or sensor-based systems
• Knowledge of systems modelling techniques (e.g., MBSE, SysML)
• Experience decomposing complex systems into sub-system architectures
• Knowledge of real-time embedded systems
• Experience contributing to test procedure development and verification activities
• Background in maritime or defence programmes

We Offer

• A personalised career path and a rewarding management style
• A huge diversity of engineering projects and industries
• Private Medical Insurance
• Cycle & Tech Scheme
• Employee assistance programme
• Life insurance & Pension Scheme
• Social atmosphere, regular gatherings & team buildings
• Flexible way of working (role dependent)

About the Company

ALTEN is a global engineering and technology consultancy operating across over 35 countries worldwide. We partner with industry leaders across sectors including Aeronautics, Aerospace, Defence, Naval, Automotive, Energy, Rail, IT, and many more to deliver innovative engineering solutions that drive technological advancement and support sustainable transformation.

Our teams of passionate and agile engineers work on cutting-edge projects that shape the future of technology and sustainability. At ALTEN, we empower talented engineers to innovate, solve complex challenges, and deliver impactful solutions that build tomorrow’s world-today.

Join us and start building tomorrow’s world today!

We are proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant & actively encourage applications from members of the Armed Forces community, including veterans, reservists, service leavers, and military spouses/partners. We recognise the value of military skills and experience and are committed to ensuring that no applicant is unfairly disadvantaged during our recruitment and selection processes.

ALTEN is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and values the strength that comes from a global mix of backgrounds and perspectives. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of background or protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.

This role may require you to have or be willing to go through Security Clearance. As part of the onboarding process candidates will be asked to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard; details of the evidence required to apply may be found on the government website Gov.UK. If you are unable to meet this and any associated criteria, then your employment may be delayed, or rejected. Details of this will be discussed with you at interview.