Future Products Missile Architect

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Salary

Circa £65,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working

3 days per week on-site due to workload classification

Security Clearance

British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship

Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

What we can offer you:

  • Company Bonus: Bonus of up to 21% of base salary
  • Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
  • Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
  • Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave – enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
  • Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more
  • Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more.

The opportunity:

Within Future Products, your role will be to help realise the system design intent into a feasible and credible product concept that balances the requirements placed upon it. This will include:

  • Define overall product structure, interfaces and architecture
  • Facilitate architectural trade studies
  • Support deployment of generic policies i.e. GMA, modularity & re-use, design for assembly
  • Assessing technology application and maturity using design assessment tools
  • Supporting product technical and programme phase reviews

You’ll get to work with and have wide exposure to a wide range of stakeholder’s e.g. S&BD, Future Systems, MOD, DSTL, key industrial partners. Along with working on new technology to develop brand new capabilities and designs making this role an exciting prospect.

You’ll have the opportunity to shape and grow in line with your personal development with an opportunity to lead a small and multidiscipline team. It’s an interesting role that will provide you with a deep understanding of early phase Missile and weapon system design.

What we're looking for from you:

  • Relevant Systems Engineering knowledge
  • Ideally educated to degree level, or equivalent experience
  • The confidence to embrace the uncertain nature of early concept development
  • Desire to utilise new techniques methods to develop concepts and system trade studies
  • Ability to manage a broad range of activities and experience of planning and task management
  • Ideally experienced in mechanical and/or electronic design (but broader engineering fields relevant e.g. Aero, Control, Structures, System Design, Software etc.)

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Location: Bristol
Job Description:

Salary

Circa £65,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working

3 days per week on-site due to workload classification

Security Clearance

British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship

Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

What we can offer you:

  • Company Bonus: Bonus of up to 21% of base salary
  • Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
  • Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
  • Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave – enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
  • Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more
  • Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more.

The opportunity:

Within Future Products, your role will be to help realise the system design intent into a feasible and credible product concept that balances the requirements placed upon it. This will include:

  • Define overall product structure, interfaces and architecture
  • Facilitate architectural trade studies
  • Support deployment of generic policies i.e. GMA, modularity & re-use, design for assembly
  • Assessing technology application and maturity using design assessment tools
  • Supporting product technical and programme phase reviews

You’ll get to work with and have wide exposure to a wide range of stakeholder’s e.g. S&BD, Future Systems, MOD, DSTL, key industrial partners. Along with working on new technology to develop brand new capabilities and designs making this role an exciting prospect.

You’ll have the opportunity to shape and grow in line with your personal development with an opportunity to lead a small and multidiscipline team. It’s an interesting role that will provide you with a deep understanding of early phase Missile and weapon system design.

What we’re looking for from you:

  • Relevant Systems Engineering knowledge
  • Ideally educated to degree level, or equivalent experience
  • The confidence to embrace the uncertain nature of early concept development
  • Desire to utilise new techniques methods to develop concepts and system trade studies
  • Ability to manage a broad range of activities and experience of planning and task management
  • Ideally experienced in mechanical and/or electronic design (but broader engineering fields relevant e.g. Aero, Control, Structures, System Design, Software etc.)

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Posted: April 26th, 2026