Senior V&V Systems Engineer

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential defence technology client in London who is building critical high-speed flight systems for European sovereign capability. This is a rare opportunity to join an elite engineering team working on mission-critical aerospace systems where your technical decisions directly impact national security outcomes.

As Senior V&V Systems Engineer, you will own the system architecture and verification strategy for advanced flight vehicles, taking full responsibility for how mission requirements translate into a coherent, testable system across disciplines including dynamics, avionics, and guidance, navigation, and control (GNC).

Responsibilities

• Own the system architecture and system model for high-speed flight vehicles, ensuring mission intent, vehicle dynamics, avionics, and GNC form a coherent, verifiable whole
• Lead aerospace systems architecture design from early concept through Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and beyond
• Build and maintain the authoritative system requirements model, decomposing mission-level objectives into clear, testable system and subsystem requirements
• Define and own the end-to-end system V-model, including requirements validation, verification strategy, and clear readiness gates for project milestones
• Apply model-based systems engineering (MBSE) as a practical engineering tool, ensuring traceability between requirements, models, analyses, and tests
• Develop and deliver a 6-DoF Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) model to PDR standard, collaborating closely with flight physics and avionics engineers
• Apply closed-loop control theory in the context of high-speed flight and military guidance, ensuring controllability, stability, and performance are understood at system level
• Integrate vehicle dynamics, control laws, sensors, and actuators into a coherent closed-loop system representation
• Identify system-level risks early—particularly around requirements gaps, controllability, observability, and verification—and drive mitigations decisively
• Act as technical authority across disciplines, maintaining architectural coherence as designs evolve rapidly

What We're Looking For

• Experienced Systems Engineer with a strong track record in system architecture, requirements decomposition, and delivery in safety- or mission-critical environments
• Deep fluency in model-based systems engineering, with practical experience owning requirements models and using MBSE to drive real engineering decisions
• Strong grounding in closed-loop control theory, applied to high-speed flight, guidance, and defence or military systems
• Comfortable developing and working with 6-DoF flight and GNC models, understanding their implications at vehicle level
• Experience taking systems through early design gates (project kick-off, PDR), not just theoretical or paper studies
• System-level thinker who focuses on behaviours, interfaces, and failure modes rather than isolated components
• Confident operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where decisions must be made with incomplete data
• Technically credible across disciplines, able to challenge assumptions and close decisions decisively
• Motivated by working on systems where performance, robustness, and national-level impact genuinely matter
• Security requirement: Must be a British Citizen (or Dual UK national with British citizenship) and eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC) and, where required, Developed Vetting (DV) due to the nature of MOD-related work

How We Work With You

Candidates apply directly through Get A Job.ai. Our talent team will conduct an initial screening to understand your background and technical expertise. Qualified candidates are then submitted to our client for consideration. Please do not attempt to contact the client directly, as all communication is coordinated through our recruiting team to ensure a professional process for all parties.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process and are competitive for senior systems engineering roles in the UK defence sector.

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