Senior Modelling Engineer

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Senior Modelling Engineer - St. Neots, Cambridgeshire - Permanent

  • Salary DOE

  • 25 days annual leave inclusive of up to 3 days Christmas shut-down

  • Buy or sell up to 5 days’ annual leave

  • Annual Wellbeing allowance

  • Two pension schemes to choose from

  • Private Medical Insurance + discounts for additional family members

  • Life Assurance scheme up to 4 x salary

  • Share Save scheme

  • Electric/Hybrid Car leasing scheme

  • Cycle to work scheme

  • Retail discounts

  • Career development support

    We are expanding our modelling team, managed by our Principal Modelling Engineer at our St Neots head office, and are looking for technical excellence to deliver crucial elements of a large, cutting-edge System-of-Systems project.

    You will contribute to the design, implementation, testing, and support of new capabilities, with the opportunity to take part in both local and international trials using the team’s outputs while working with both current and future technologies, techniques, and methodologies.

    Working as part of a team, you will be involved in Sprints, taking responsibility for the delivery of SCRUM tasking. You will be supported by the Project Design Authority who will work with you to ensure high quality delivery to the customer.

    The invaluable experience you’ll bring will help us achieve more.

    You will help line manage and mentor graduate modelling engineers, generating Simulink based models for deployment onto FPGA targets as part of production deliveries. Core to this role will be your understanding of Physics/Mathematical principles at Degree-level and experience as a Modelling engineer.

    A working knowledge of RF sensors within a Defence setting would be beneficial but not essential. Experience working with synthetic electromagnetic environments and their associated software and hardware requirements and limitations is desirable.

    Essential Experience

  • Experience deploying Simulink models to FPGA targets (HDL Coder toolbox).

  • System Documentation (Design & Test).

  • Designing, building & testing Simulink models.

  • Experience modelling RF environments, including interfaces between stand-alone models and a broader network.

  • Working in an agile manner (SCRUM).

    Desirable Experience

  • Experience of line management.

  • Experience working in Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) test environments.

  • Electronic Warfare domain knowledge.

  • Familiarity with laboratory test equipment (Signal Generators, oscilloscopes, etc.).

  • Experience using VHDL/Verilog.

  • A deep understanding of physics and mathematical principles at Degree-level.

    Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. Our people are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing programmes and policies that support individuals, including mental health first aiders and readily available support through our extensive employee assistance programme.

    Our non-negotiables:

    Due to the highly secure nature of the projects that you will be involved with, you must be:

  • A UK National and eligible to work in the UK.

  • Eligible to obtain and maintain a UK Government SC-level security clearance

    Apply today to see how working for MASS could work for you

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