Principal Engineer - System

About EDGE

About the Role

Responsibilities

• Manage the Message Standards protocols team and develop large-scale C4I and tactical datalink solutions.
• Design Message Standards protocols for C4I systems, including information exchange requirements and supporting user experience.
• Design interoperability capabilities across Link 16, MIP, VMF, FFT, ADATP-3, and other interfaces or standards.
• Support requirements analysis, traceability, decomposition, integration, verification, validation, and delivery.
• Support system architecture development for C2, tactical communications, or integrated mission systems.
• Participate in design reviews, technical assessments, and trade studies.
• Coordinate with software, hardware, network, cybersecurity, and test engineering teams.
• Maintain systems engineering documentation, integration plans, test procedures, and test reports.
• Support risk identification and customer and stakeholder engagements.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in systems engineering, software engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum eight years of systems engineering experience in defence, aerospace, security, or mission-critical environments.
• Experience working on defence development programmes or large-scale integrated systems.
• Understanding of systems engineering methodologies and lifecycle processes.
• Experience with requirements management and systems documentation tools.
• Familiarity with integration, test, and verification activities.
• Ability to work within multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to C2, tactical communications, secure networks, ISR, or mission systems.
• Knowledge of defence communication systems, tactical data links, radio networks, or distributed C2 architectures.
• Familiarity with INCOSE practices, MIL-STD frameworks, NATO interoperability standards, secure communications architectures, or cybersecurity considerations.
• Experience with Enterprise Architect, Jama Connect, DOORS, or JIRA.
• Experience in model-based systems engineering.

Language Requirement

• English proficiency is required for all roles unless otherwise stated in the job posting.