Integration & Missile Validation Engineer - Undergraduate Placement 2027
// Role Summary
Join MBDA as an Integration & Missile Validation Engineer on a 1-year undergraduate programme starting September 2027, where you'll help prove the capability of world-leading weapon systems.
// Key Responsibilities
- Gain hands-on experience in a variety of crucial IMV activities.
- Contribute to ensuring MBDA's weapon systems meet customer requirements.
- Opportunity to secure a graduate role based on performance.
- Benefit from a competitive salary, company bonus, and excellent pension.
- Enjoy extensive annual leave, flexi-leave, and site facilities.
// Role Specification
Integration & Missile Validation Engineer - Undergraduate Programme 2027
MBDA develops some of the world's highest performing weapon systems. The Integration and Missile Validation (IMV) team is integral to ensuring our weapon systems meet customer requirements and increasing sovereign capability. Within this role, you will experience the many aspects of proving to become a well-rounded IMV Engineer.
The Opportunity:
This 1-year placement, starting September 2027, 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.
Examples of IMV activities you could be involved with include:
- Ground Trials: Testing the robustness of our products through various environments to ensure it can survive and operate within the real world. This can involve vibration, shock and climatic testing.
- Flight Trials: Integrating subsystems onto aircraft to simulate the behaviour of the missile during flight.
- Functional Integration: Demonstrating hardware and software of systems work together and respond as expected.
- Firing Trials: Final evaluation testing to ensure the full weapon system works and demonstrating the capability of the product to the customer.
- In-Service Support: Testing and monitoring in-service products with the customer.
- Support Trials and Test Equipment: Designing support test equipment and software to support proving activities.
As part of completing these activities, you will have the opportunity to learn:
- How to plan and design test strategies to support proving the capability of various missile systems.
- How to integrate various missile equipment to test rigs.
- To develop your problem-solving skills through debugging test systems.
What we can offer you:
- Company bonus: 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.
- Annual Leave: 25 days plus option to purchase extra holiday.
- Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days.
- Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more.
- Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more.