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Skills
You will keep learning here, but some things you should already bring: - Real, hands-on experience verifying and validating complex, multi-disciplinary systems, ideally where software, hardware and networks all meet. - Solid grounding in V&V as a discipline - the distinction between proving a system meets its specified requirements (verification) and proving it meets the user's actual need (validation), and how to choose and combine methods (test, analysis, inspection, demonstration) to get there efficiently. - A track record of building or significantly maturing a V&V or test and evaluation capability, tooling or standard. - Strong test engineering fundamentals: you know how to decide what is worth testing, and how to prove something rather than hope it works. - Demonstrable awareness of distributed communication systems - how they are deployed, and how the trade-offs between different communications bearers and spectrums affect performance. - Experience with test infrastructure of some kind: hardware-in-the-loop, simulation or emulation, network impairment, instrumentation, or automated test frameworks. - Proven people leadership: you have hired, line-managed, mentored and developed engineers, and know how to grow a team's capability rather than just its headcount. - Experience setting technical direction for a discipline or function, and holding the line on standards even under schedule pressure. - A track record of influencing senior stakeholders and peers (engineering leadership, programme teams, customers) to win investment and buy-in for a capability, not just to execute someone else's plan. - Comfortable being accountable for a discipline's output across multiple concurrent programmes, balancing hands-on delivery with the time needed to lead and develop others. - An instinct for reuse: you build tools and approaches other people can pick up. - Comfort with ambiguity and pace. Our programmes move quickly and the requirements do not always arrive neatly. - Clear communication with engineers, project teams and customers alike. Desirable (not essential) - Formal V&V experience in a regulated environment (e.g. DEF STAN, safety-critical standards), or model-based systems engineering. - RF, comms, EW or sensing experience. - Defence (land, maritime or air), aerospace, space or other safety- or mission-critical backgrounds. - Autonomy and robotics. About you You want to work on hard problems, at pace, with people who are very good at what they do. You would rather build something than inherit it. You are happy being told the current approach needs improving, because you will be the one leading that improvement. And you care that what we ship actually works for the person using it at the far end of a bad network.
