Project Engineer - Hardware In The Loop
// Role Summary
Join the MBDA Hardware In The Loop team as an analytical engineer, contributing to world-class missile performance testing and product development in a state-of-the-art UK facility.
// Key Responsibilities
- Conduct dynamic missile firing simulations using real hardware.
- Work within a unique, state-of-the-art UK test and evaluation facility.
- Integrate, understand, and maintain complex real-time simulations.
- Perform missile testing and data analysis for product development.
- Opportunity for paid overtime and flexible working arrangements.
// Role Specification
About the Role
We are looking for analytical engineers to deliver the MBDA Hardware In The Loop mission statement: "To provide operational confidence through world-class, closed loop missile performance testing." You will join the Hardware In The Loop (HWIL) team who conduct dynamic missile firing simulations, utilising real missile hardware in support of product development, performance validation, and firing trial preparation.
You will have the opportunity to work within a state-of-the-art test and evaluation facility, unique within the UK. The HWIL testing utilises real missile hardware, a missile performance model, flight motion tables (to pitch/roll/yaw the hardware), and RF / IR target generation systems (to represent target(s)). This dynamic testing is controlled by a HWIL-developed simulation which runs in real-time.
This test and evaluation setup allows HWIL to conduct missile testing across many MBDA products in as close to real-world scenarios as possible, exercising missile functionalities such as in-flight performance, target detection, acquisition, and homing.
Your job role may vary with the lifecycle of the missile products you are supporting. Your overall aim will be to integrate, understand, and maintain highly complex simulations, and utilise these to perform missile testing and data analysis, all in support of missile product development.
Key Responsibilities
- Understand the functionality of the missile sub-systems involved in dynamic HWIL testing.
- Understand interactions between the missile sub-systems and bespoke test equipment.
- Interact with relevant subject matter experts across MBDA missile product teams.
- Develop real-time software simulations utilising performance models.
- Conduct hands-on testing with real missile hardware.
What We Offer
- Salary: Up to £46,000 depending on experience.
- Company Bonus: Up to £2,500 (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.
- Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days.
- Flexible Working: We welcome applicants looking for flexible working arrangements.
- Enhanced Parental Leave: Offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave, with enhancements available for paternity leave, neonatal leave, and fertility testing and treatments.
- Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking, and much more.
- Working Arrangement: Predominantly on-site (Stevenage) due to workload classification and the nature of testing, with dynamic (hybrid) working flexibility.