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Amentum

Systems Engineer – Combat Systems

Amentum

Join Amentum as a Systems Engineer focusing on Combat Systems for Defence projects. Collaborate in stakeholder management and system engineering processes for mission-critical capabilities.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Elicit, analyse, and manage stakeholder and system requirements, ensuring traceability across the lifecycle
  • Develop system architectures and design artefacts, including functional, logical, and physical views
  • Contribute to the development of interface definitions and integration considerations across systems
  • Collaborate with architects, developers, and integration teams to ensure coherent and feasible system designs
  • Support verification and validation planning, ensuring requirements are testable and aligned to acceptance criteria
  • Support operations in an in-build environment and provide guidance on system installation
  • Support verification and validation activities to ensure progressive acceptance through the lifecycle
  • Contribute to systems engineering documentation and governance artefacts in line with MOD and industry standards

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Degree qualified in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related discipline (or equivalent experience)
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Good communication skills, able to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Ability to work collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams
  • Proven experience as a Systems Engineer within Defence environments with a strong understanding of combat systems principles and lifecycle models (e.g. V-model, Agile, hybrid approaches)
  • Experience working across the systems engineering lifecycle, with a focus on requirements, architecture, and design phases
  • Experience in requirements engineering, including elicitation, analysis, and management
  • Ability to develop system architecture artefacts and design documentation, with an understanding of system integration concepts, interfaces, and dependencies
  • Experience supporting integration and V&V activities, with an understanding of how designs translate into testable systems
  • Awareness of MOD frameworks and governance environments
  • Understanding of requirements management and modelling tools (e.g. DOORS, SparxEA

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • free single medical cover and digital GP service
  • family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay
  • free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes
  • reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships
  • work-life balance and flexibility

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Hard Skills & Tools
systems engineeringrequirements engineeringsystem architecturedesign documentationintegration conceptsverification and validation (V&V)combat systems principleslifecycle modelsAgilehybrid approaches
Soft Skills
analytical skillsproblem-solving skillscommunication skillscollaborationstakeholder engagement