Experimentation Engineer

Experimentation Engineer Location: Stevenage Salary: Up to £50,000 P/A benefits (Including Overtime, Bonus and Pension) Hours:37 hours per week We have an exciting opportunity for an Experimentation Engineer to work for a world class technical engineering company based in Stevenage. An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Experimentation Engineer, to join the Systems Simulation and Experimentation Team. The successful candidate will work closely with the head of function to engage the wider business to establish a portfolio of experimentation opportunities. This is an excellent opportunity to work with a company that can offer long term career development potential as well as the chance to work on challenging, exciting projects. The Role You will play a pivotal role to support the team in the development of real-time software components to simulate weapon systems. You will be involved in the Integration of hardware components and real equipment to provide an end-to-end representation of the system that is used with the end user. You will support the group in their use of simulation standards (DIS and HLA, DDS). Report monthly on campaigns and the resulting experimentation to the Head of function. Effective planning and co-ordination of the team to ensure projects are delivered on time, on cost and to quality required. Requirements (Include but not limited to) You will be a degree qualified engineer, ideally within Software, electronics or Physics. We are looking for an Experimentation / Software Engineer to own the campaigns to identify opportunities for the use of experimentation in support of future weapon system developments. You will be comfortable operating in an environment where there is frequent change, where you will use your skills and experience to deliver our projects on time, by effective planning and co-ordination of our simulation experiments. You will have the ability to engage a disparate range of stake holders internally and externally to grow the experimentation portfolio and future work where you will build and develop relationships. You will be able to demonstrate your ability to lead and conduct bidding activities with a range of internal and external stake holders. The successful applicant will have excellent verbal and written communications and will be comfortable giving presentations. Please Note: Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, this position requires candidates to be able to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to sole British Citizens. Applicants who meet these criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, if not already security cleared to a minimum SC level. Please note: Due to the occasional high amount of applications, it can be difficult to reply to everyone. If you haven’t been contacted within 1 working week, then you haven’t been successful on this occasion. However, thank you for your interest. Cirrus Selection offers the services of an Employment Agency for permanent recruitment and the services of an Employment Business for contract recruitment. This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/89692209