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Working at MBDA

  • Company employees
    7000
  • Gender diversity (m:f)
    74:26

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  • United Kingdom

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Join MBDA as a Principal RF Engineer in Stevenage, United Kingdom, where you will design and develop RF equipment for complex missile Hardware-in-the-Loop simulations. This is a full-time role offering a salary of up to £55,000 depending on experience, with a hybrid work arrangement requiring 4 days per week on-site. Candidates must hold British citizenship or dual UK nationality.

Requirements

  • Broad engineering experience with deeper expertise in RF design and testing, system performance analysis, and interface debugging.
  • Familiarity with the Linux operating system, computer science (C++ is an advantage), and microcontroller integration into RF hardware.
  • Security clearance requirement: British citizenship or dual UK national with British citizenship, and ability to pass BPSS checks.

Skills & Responsibilities

  • Radio Frequency design and testing: Design, develop, and maintain new and existing RF equipment for missile test track simulations.
  • System performance analysis: Evaluate simulation and missile behaviour to understand complex engineering situations and abstract details.
  • System integration: Combine RF engineering, electronics, and software development with multi-disciplinary teams to produce new testing capabilities.
  • Interface debugging: Troubleshoot and integrate hardware and software designs for real-time applications.
  • Potential transition routes: People from electronic engineering or aerospace systems roles may bring relevant hardware and software skills, alongside meeting mandatory security clearance requirements.

Job description

You will be able to adapt to new engineering situations and be comfortable in abstracting detail in order to understand the simulation and missile’s behaviour!

Salary: Up to £55,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 4 days per week on-site due to workload classification

Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship

Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

What we can offer you:

  • Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
  • Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
  • Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
  • Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
  • Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
  • Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
  • Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more…

The opportunity:

We are looking for ambitious engineers with a growth mind-set to join our team. If you are the right person for us, you will seek a supportive environment, surrounded by passionate experts while being a part of a collaborative and driven team.

The Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) team conduct the most complete test of missiles other than a firing and are MBDA’s Missile test track. We design complex, real-time simulations that surround real missile hardware to allow us to ‘fire missiles indoors’.

As a HWIL RF engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing and maintaining new and existing RF equipment and working with multi-disciplinary teams to combine RF, electronics engineering and software development to produce new capabilities that enable the HWIL team to run new simulations.

What we want from you:

Broad engineering experience with deeper experience in some of the following skill areas:

  • Radio Frequency design and testing
  • System performance analysis
Apply now
MBDA

Principal RF Engineer

Stevenage
Hybrid
Up to £55,000 depending on experience
  • Interface debugging and system integration
  • Hardware/Software design requirements
  • System design for real-time applications
  • Familiarity with Linux operating system
  • Familiarity with computer science (C++ an advantage)
  • Integration of microcontrollers into RF hardware (e.g. Raspberry Pi)
  • Our company: Peace is not a given, Freedom is not a given, Sovereignty is not a given

    MBDA is a leading defence organisation. We are proud of the role we play in supporting the Armed Forces who protect our nations. We partner with governments to work together towards a common goal, defending our freedom.

    We are proud of our employee-led networks, examples include: Gender Equality, Pride, Menopause Matters, Parents and Carers, Armed Forces, Ethnic Diversity, Neurodiversity, Disability and more…

    We recognise that everyone is unique, and we encourage you to speak to us should you require any advice, support or adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

    Follow us on LinkedIn (MBDA), X (@MBDA_UK), Instagram (MBDA_UK) and Glassdoor or visit our MBDA Careers website for more information.

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