Systems Lead – RF, High-Speed Electronics & FPGA

Introduction summary

We're looking for a hands-on technical specialist to join our Security and Defence, Systems and Technology team in Cambridge – someone who wants deep technical ownership of hard problems, not just a seat in a delivery team.

This is a Defence & Security Business Unit role, working end to end across the product life cycle: from early concept, through prototyping, to new product introduction. The work is primarily for UK government defence and security clients, with scope to pick up projects for commercial and wider public sector clients too. You'll be trusted to run a project single-handedly when the scope calls for it, or to lead a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, scientists and designers when it's bigger – and to move between the two as needed.

We're after someone who is genuinely systemsy: broad enough to see how a project fits together, with real depth in at least one of FPGA, high-speed electronics, or RF. You'll be comfortable getting your hands dirty on the technical detail, and just as comfortable sitting in front of a client, drawing out what they actually need, and turning that into technical progress.

What we can offer

Variety, autonomy, and genuinely hard technical problems in a secure, mission-driven environment. You'll take ownership of the tec