Full-Time
Senior Systems Engineer
Posted on 8/14/2025
General Dynamics UK
201-500 employees
UK defense contractor delivering C4I, AFV
No salary listed
Cardiff, UK
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- Broad competence in systems engineering with practical experience in development programmes
- Experience in resolving design challenges and engaging specialist engineering disciplines
- Proven analytical and fault-finding skills, comfortable working in a technical laboratory
- Experience with structured design methods and ability to create well-structured technical documents
- Ability to work well in a team and present formally at progress reviews
- Analysis of user and system level documentation, producing system designs to satisfy requirements
- Engage with specialty engineering teams to ensure a complete system solution
- Evaluate and model system performance to support design decisions and trade studies
- Specify interfaces and system components, managing the system design through its lifecycle
- Collaborate with development, integration, and test teams on system design and component development
- Engage with stakeholders, including users and technical advisors
- Conduct requirements elicitation, interface definition, and design analysis
- Support system engineering management through planning, estimating, monitoring, and control
- Contribute to a multi-disciplined team for safety, security, ILS, and SI&T inputs into a coherent system solution
- Experience across all phases of the engineering lifecycle
- Understanding of computer and network infrastructures, military hardware, and relevant standards
- Knowledge of Safety, Security, and ILS processes
- Experience with engineering tools, Model-Based Systems Engineering, and System Modelling Language (SysML)
- Ability to commit to occasional travel
General Dynamics UK delivers defence technology and services to the UK MoD, including C4I communications, Armoured Fighting Vehicle capability, and avionics systems. Its products work by designing and integrating end-to-end defence systems that plan, deploy, manage and monitor battlefield information, with systems like Bowman, EvO, AJAX, and aircraft avionics. The company differentiates itself through long-standing MoD collaboration combined with in-house design and manufacturing to deliver large, end-to-end programs from a UK base in South Wales. Its goal is to equip the UK Armed Forces with reliable, integrated communications, combat-vehicle, and avionics systems for current operations and future capability programs.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Blackwood, United Kingdom
Founded
1962
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- AJAX production continues at Merthyr Tydfil despite investigations.
- Full operating capability planned by end of 2029 per Minister Pollard.
- 185 of 589 AJAX vehicles delivered, meeting contractual requirements.
What critics are saying
- Ajax delays from noise, vibration issues erode MoD trust in 3-6 months.
- BAE Systems undercuts on land contracts post-Ajax in 12-24 months.
- MoD cancels Ajax tranche 1 over £1.2B overruns in 18-24 months.
What makes General Dynamics UK unique
- General Dynamics UK delivers AJAX vehicles replacing British Army reconnaissance fleet.
- Supplies Bowman tactical communications as key MoD land partner.
- Leads MoD R&D in software electronics, avionics, command systems.
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