Graduate Systems Engineer

Date Posted:

2026-04-14

Country:

United Kingdom

Location:

Plymouth, Plymouth

Position Role Type:

Hybrid

What you will do:

As a Systems Engineer, you’ll play a key role in developing, integrating, and validating complex embedded systems. Working across hardware, software, and mechanical domains, you’ll contribute to projects from concept through to delivery, helping ensure our systems perform flawlessly in the most demanding environments.

Your day-to- day will include:

• Working with our customers and key stakeholders to understand and capture the system level use cases, concept of operations and requirements.
• Development of the system architecture.
• Interfacing with stakeholders across Systems, Software, Electrical, and Mechanical engineering and developing requirement specifications for each component of the system.
• Supporting system integration for real-time embedded systems, including hardware/software interfaces
• Ensuring requirement-to-requirement and requirements-to-test traceability throughout the design
• Developing test cases and procedures against the requirements and executing tests
• Applying logical and innovative problem-solving across software, hardware, and system levels
• System requirements analysis, generation of requirement specifications and compliance tracking 
• All aspects of the product development lifecycle
• Product qualification and testing
• System modelling, algorithm development and data analysis 

Skills and Experience:

•  Excellent written and verbal communication skills to technical and non-technical stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
• Understanding of the full development lifecycle.
• Understanding of requirements analysis
• Understanding of architectural design and decomposition.
• Be aware of internal (board/board or processor/peripheral) and external (unit to unit/network) data bus standards.
• Understanding of test plans, test cases and procedures and executing test programmes.
• Awareness of requirements management tools such as DOORS (or Jama or similar)
• Familiarity with version control systems (SVN, Git, Teamwork Cloud)

Desirable:

• Experience with SysML tools such as EA (or Cameo) is preferred 
• Ability to read and interpret schematics
• Experience of algorithm development and specification.
• Data analysis and algorithm development experience, including MATLAB
• Electrical or software design and development experience
• Experience using COTS test equipment in a lab environment (oscilloscopes, bus analysers, etc.)
• Experience with auto-code generation using MATLAB

Qualifications we prefer: 

• Self-motivated, diligent and excited by STEM subjects
• You will be studying Engineering, Mathematics or another closely related discipline at University and expect to graduate in 2028
• A keen interest in product development within military or civil aerospace 
• Competent in technical report writing and presentations 
• A team player and effective communicator 
• Able to multi-task and prioritise own work 

What We Offer: 

Alongside a competitive benefits package, we are committed to investing in your future through our structured two-year Graduate Development Programme. This programme is designed to support your professional and personal growth, offering a blend of hands-on experience, training, mentorship, and ongoing development opportunities to help you build a successful and rewarding career.

In addition to your development journey, you’ll receive a competitive base salary and 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays. Our benefits package also includes access to an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible holiday options (with the ability to buy and sell leave), employee discounts, a generous pension scheme, and discounted gym membership.

You’ll be based in a clean, safe, and modern working environment in a vibrant coastal city on the edge of Dartmoor National Park - perfectly positioned for those who enjoy outdoor and water-based activities, with plenty to explore beyond the workplace.

More about us: 

Our Plymouth business forms part the Mission Systems team which helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialised aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you’ll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow.  

At Collins Aerospace we believe a multitude of approaches and ideas enable us to deliver the best results for our workforce, workplace, and customers. We are committed to fostering a culture where all employees can share their passions and ideas so we can tackle the toughest challenges in our industry and pave new paths to limitless possibility.   

  

Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today! 

Please note that potential candidates will be subject to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) and background checks and that project access restrictions may apply to some nationalities.  

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