Electronics Systems Engineer

Location: Peterborough, England, gb

Company Description

ALTEN is a global engineering and technology consultancy operating across over 35 countries worldwide. We partner with industry leaders across sectors including Aeronautics, Aerospace, Defence, Naval, Automotive, Energy, Rail, IT and many more to deliver innovative engineering solutions that drive technological advancement & support sustainable transformation.

Our teams of passionate and agile engineers work on cutting-edge projects that shape the future of technology and sustainability. At ALTEN, we empower talented engineers to innovate, solve complex challenges, and deliver impactful solutions that build tomorrow’s world—today.

Join us and start building tomorrow’s world today!

Job Description

ALTEN UK is seeking a Systems Engineer with an Electronics background to join an exciting automotive engineering programme. This role is suited to an engineer who has experience managing requirements and supporting verification and validation activities across the full systems engineering lifecycle.

Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will play a key role in defining system requirements, ensuring traceability, and supporting testing and validation activities in line with the V-Cycle development process.

• Location: Peterborough
• On Site: Fully onsite 
• Clearance: Clearable 
• Experience Level: Mid Level

Key Responsibilities:

• Capture, analyse, and manage system requirements from stakeholder needs through to implementation.
• Maintain requirements traceability throughout the development lifecycle.
• Support system architecture and requirements decomposition activities.
• Work across the top left-hand side of the V-Cycle, ensuring robust requirements definition and systems engineering processes.
• Support top right-hand side V-Cycle activities, including system verification, validation, and acceptance testing.
• Develop and review test plans, test specifications, and validation documentation.
• Collaborate with software, electronics, and validation teams to ensure requirements are fully verified.
• Identify and resolve requirement, integration, and test issues throughout development.

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• Strong industry experience in Electronics Engineering with a proven understanding of electronic systems mandatory).
• Proven experience in Systems Engineering within the automotive or other complex engineering sectors.
• Strong background in Requirements Management, including requirements capture, analysis, decomposition, and traceability.
• Experience working on the left-hand side of the V-Cycle, translating customer and stakeholder needs into clear system requirements and specifications.
• Experience supporting the right-hand side of the V-Cycle, including system verification, validation, and testing activities.
• Understanding of systems integration and the interaction between hardware, software, and electronic components.
• Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Required Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, or equivalent military experience.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience within the automotive industry, particularly in the development of electronic and control systems.
• Familiarity with requirements management tools such as IBM DOORS, Polarion, Jama, or similar.
• Experience working with embedded systems, ECUs, and vehicle-level electronics.
• Understanding of systems integration, fault analysis, and root cause investigation.
• Knowledge of industry-standard systems engineering processes and methodologies.
• Experience supporting cross-functional teams across software, electronics, and test/validation functions.
• Exposure to vehicle development lifecycles from concept through to production.
• Experience working in an Agile or hybrid project environment.

Additional Information

Why join us? 

We bring together entrepreneurial, tech-driven people to deliver innovative solutions for leading companies.

At ALTEN, you’ll work on exciting projects, supported by ongoing learning, mentoring, and clear career development tailored to your goals.

Join a passionate team and help build tomorrow, today.

In short you get: 

• A personalised career path and a rewarding management style 
• A huge diversity of engineering projects and industries
• Private Medical Insurance
• Cycle & Tech Scheme 
• Employee assistance programme
• Life insurance & Pension Scheme
• Social atmosphere, regular gatherings & team buildings
• Flexible way of working (role dependent)

We are proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant & actively encourage applications from members of the Armed Forces community, including veterans, reservists, service leavers, and military spouses/partners. We recognise the value of military skills and experience and are committed to ensuring that no applicant is unfairly disadvantaged during our recruitment and selection processes. 

ALTEN is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and values the strength that comes from a global mix of backgrounds and perspectives. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of background or protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know. 

This role may require you to have or be willing to go through Security Clearance. As part of the onboarding process candidates will be asked to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard; details of the evidence required to apply may be found on the government website Gov.UK. If you are unable to meet this and any associated criteria, then your employment may be delayed, or rejected . Details of this will be discussed with you at interview.