Hybrid Systems Engineer

at Babcock International Group

• Job title: Systems Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: £45,702 - £53,393 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dunfermline, United Kingdom

About the role

• Systems Engineer specializing in defence systems at Babcock. Designing and integrating complex systems to ensure operational success with multidisciplinary teams in Fife.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of requirements artefacts, such as specifications and traceability matrices.
• Assist in defining Verification and Validation (V&V) strategies, developing test evidence, and supporting acceptance activities.
• Participate in internal and external design reviews, providing Systems Engineering input across design, development, and integration stages.
• Collaborate with engineers from other disciplines (mechanical, electrical, software) to ensure system coherence and compliance.

Requirements

• Degree-qualified in a STEM subject (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) or equivalent practical experience.
• Familiarity with core Systems Engineering concepts such as requirements elicitation, requirement decomposition, functional analysis, and verification.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Organised and able to prioritise tasks in a project environment.
• Enthusiastic about learning and applying Systems Engineering best practices.
• Security Clearance - The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.