Complex Warheads: Lethality Engineer - Summer Placement 2027
// Role Summary
Join MBDA's Complex Warheads team as a Lethality Engineer for a Summer Placement in 2027. Model the lethal performance of cutting-edge missile systems and contribute to world-leading defence capabilities.
// Key Responsibilities
- Model the lethal performance of MBDA's Complex Weapon Systems.
- Gain hands-on experience with bespoke modelling tools and CAD software.
- Develop expertise in fuzing techniques, warhead technologies, and lethality assessment.
- Opportunity to work independently or in small teams with limited supervision.
- Potential to secure a graduate role after a successful placement.
- 10-week placement starting June 2027.
// Role Specification
Lethality Engineer - Summer Placement 2027
Are you interested in modelling the lethal performance of MBDA's Complex Weapon Systems? Come and join our niche group of engineers, enabling MBDA to provide world leading defence capabilities for our home Nations and Allies.
This is an outstanding opportunity to join a niche group of engineers with mixed expertise, involved in assessing the lethal performance of various missile systems. The skills we utilise are not typical in academia and so joining the team presents an opportunity for you to develop knowledge in numerous aspects of missile lethality that you would not develop anywhere else!
With support and mentorship from the team's engineers, you'll be involved in applying a bespoke set of modelling tools to evaluate and investigate the lethal performance of developing and future missile systems against a range of targets. Our in-house tools are principally fast running evaluation models written in MATLAB; however, other tools such as CAD design software are also used to provide inputs to our models.
Joining us will build your knowledge and enable you to apply an understanding of fuzing techniques, warhead technologies, lethal effects and lethality assessment modelling methods to various types of missile systems in development by MBDA.
You will be encouraged to work on your own or in a small team, with limited supervision, as required, on short tasks (typically a few weeks to a few months in duration). Some projects may include collaboration with other MBDA departments around Europe.
What we can offer you:
- 10 week placement: starting June 2027, that allows you to apply your university learning to real-world projects and technologies
- Perform well on your placement and you could secure a graduate role before your final year
- Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
- Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
- Annual Leave: 5 days
- Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more...
What we're looking for from you:
- Current undergraduate working towards a degree in an Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computing or Applied Science discipline.