Systems Engineer - Undergraduate Placement 2027
// Role Summary
Embark on a 1-year undergraduate placement starting September 2027 within MBDA's Systems Design function. Apply your university learning to real-world projects, contributing to the development and support of complex weapon systems for UK and partner nation armed forces.
// Key Responsibilities
- Gain hands-on experience in the full lifecycle of complex weapon systems.
- Explore diverse technologies and engineering methodologies across various domains.
- Opportunity to engage with internal and external customers.
- Potential to secure a graduate role based on placement performance.
- Benefit from a comprehensive package including bonus, pension, and healthcare.
// Role Specification
About the Role
Working within one of our Systems Design functions in Stevenage, you will be involved in concepting, designing, delivering and supporting the latest Complex Weapons capabilities for the UK and partner nation Armed Forces in response to advanced threats in all domains (Air, Land, Sea).
You'll complete a placement based on a project that could be at any stage in a range of areas, from future capabilities to in-service products. Through the placement, we'll help you understand the make-up of a missile or a weapon system; from the warhead to the seeker in the missile to the wider weapon system components.
These placements will enable you to understand the Systems Engineering V' model across the whole product lifecycle including:
- Researching future technologies and novel domains
- Developing requirements and functional architectures
- Creating concept solutions
- Analysing performance and supporting trade-off studies
- Managing interfaces and integration of systems and sub-systems
- Proving and certification activities at Weapon and Missile system level
- Learning about technologies and customer needs associated with specific products or capabilities.
Across the Systems Engineering domain, we offer exposure to a wide variety of different technologies, engineering methodologies, and customer needs associated with specific products or capabilities. This also offers a great opportunity to engage with internal and external customers.
This role is suited to those that enjoy the creativity and practicality of working with problems to a