Senior Engineer

MERITUS are recruiting for a Senior Engineer to join the HWIL (Hardware in the Loop) team at a sovereign defence manufacturer as they continue growing their RF, Systems Performance and Design services.SENIOR ENGINEER (HARDWARE IN THE LOOP) - INSIDE IR35 - 55 PER HOUR - 4 DAYS A WEEK ONSITE - STEVENAGE - 6 MONTHS (VERY LIKELY TO EXTEND) - RF / SYSTEMS DESIGN - SECTOR: DEFENCEThe Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) team conduct the most complete test of missiles other than a firing and are our client''s Missile test track. We design complex, real-time simulations that surround real missile hardware to allow us to ''fire missiles indoors''.Responsibilities:As a HWIL engineer, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining new and existing RF equipment and working with multi-disciplinary teams to combine RF, electronics engineering and software development to produce new capabilities that enable HWIL to run new simulations - Produce new RF targets for missiles to track, simulated ECM. testing, root cause analysis, design, development, integration.You will be able to adapt to new engineering situations and be comfortable in abstracting detail in order to understand the simulation and missile''s behaviourSkillset/experience required:Broad engineering experience with deeper experience in some of the following skill areas:Radio Frequency design or testingSystem performance analysisInterface debugging and system integrationSoftware design requirementsSystem design for real-time ..... full job details .....