Systems Engineer - Network Architect (Southampton)

At Leonardo, we have a fantastic new opportunity for a Senior Systems Engineer. Leonardo is a global high-tech company and one of the key players in Aerospace, Defence and Security. Headquartered in Italy, Leonardo has over 45,000 employees, of which 7,000 are based in the UK.

Leonardo has a fantastic opportunity for an engineer with experience in different network protocols and routing algorithms to work in a team developing airborne mesh networks.
The successful candidate will have a breadth of understanding of protocols across the OSI model. You will be able to consider the pros and cons of designing a network in different ways and study where the network protocols themselves need to be adapted to meet the projects particular requirements.
You will be working with the Leonardo team, subcontractors and partners.

WHAT YOU’LL GET

• Flexible working: We offer our employees the time and flexibility they need to enjoy a balanced life through flexible hours and part time options
• Custom working: The role may be a mixture of home based and onsite
• Flexible benefits: Our company-funded approach to flexible benefits allows employees to make choices appropriate for them. Each employee has access to a wide choice of lifestyle, health and wellbeing options best suited to their individual lifestyle goals.
• Network groups : To support our ongoing commitment to diversity & inclusion, we have a range of network groups for colleagues :
  • Carers (employees caring for family or friends)
  • Enable (supporting people with disabilities)
  • Equalise (development of a gender balanced workforce)
  • Pride (promoting equality for all LGBTQ+ individuals)
  • Ethnicity Inclusion (developing a more ethnically based workforce)
  • Wellbeing (promoting & supporting employee wellbeing)
• Training : Free access to Coursera which provides more than 4,000 online courses
• Continuous Learning : You will be supported in your ongoing professional development through training and mentoring
• Investors in People : We are proud recipients of the Investors in People Silver Award
• Employee Assistance Programme : Providing free and confidential mental health support
• Annual leave: We offer 25 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays and 12 flexi days

• Investigate different approaches for the design of airborne mesh networks
• Specify networking simulations using either third party simulation tools or a Leonardo developed simulation environment.
• Analyse the results of simulations and propose how to improve the design.
• Assist efforts to create standardisation proposals.

You must be eligible for full security clearance. 

You really must have:

• Good understanding of networking protocols including knowledge of the function of the different protocols in the stack, what the alternatives are and why they have been designed as they are.
• The ability to design meaningful experiments and interpret the results.
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate ideas to varied audiences.

It would be nice if you had knowledge/experience of:

• Research to investigate novel networking algorithms
• Commonly used network simulation tools
• Software engineering techniques
• Wireless communications