Communications Systems Engineer - USA

Background 

The world around us is experiencing significant change, the greatest in generations.  

At McLaren Applied, we’re accelerating the response to that change. Our vision is that our people and technologies will pioneer a better future.  Our mission is to achieve breakthroughs in performance. 

We’re at the cutting edge of innovation in industries including automotive, transportation and motorsport. We create solutions that drive efficiency and cost-effectiveness. 

We want to help to reduce the carbon footprint and become more sustainable.

Our focus is on electrification and telemetry, control and analytics. 

To deliver efficient lightweight electric powertrain and vehicle development; motorsport solutions that make series more sustainable and efficient; reliable connectivity solutions for transportation and insightful analytics and monitoring of transport fleets. 

By applying our expertise, we deliver real benefits and pioneer a better future. 

Our team
 

Our agile cross functional portfolio teams work collaboratively to solve interesting and challenging problems in industries we participate in.  

Typically, our teams comprise of Data Scientists and/or Simulation Engineers, Full Stack Software Engineers, Test Engineers, System Reliability Engineers (DevOps) and Systems Engineers.
 

The role
 

You will become one of our key contributors who guide and foster innovation by developing and deploying leading edge systems that span various market segments including the transportation market. 

As a Communications System Engineer you will be actively involved in the end-to-end Systems Engineering lifecycle of complex communications projects; giving technical input from eliciting user/product needs, requirements capture/management/traceability, through to test & verification planning for communications systems deployments.  

With oversight from a Senior Systems Engineer, you will help develop communications solutions and input into the communications technology roadmap keeping the business at the forefront of industry trends. You will provide technical contribution to the planning and implementation of projects, bids and proposals including involvement in pre-sales and sales activities, requirements capture and deployment of proof of concepts. 

The role includes championing Systems Engineering best practice in MA and working closely with the UK Systems Engineering community to continuously improve the practice and processes. This includes proactively contributing to knowledge dissemination by, for example, being a technology evangelist, learning and being coached, etc. fostering links to other technical disciplines across the team.  

Minimum
 

We are looking for an applicant who has:  

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or other highly quantitative field (or equivalent experience).  

• Experience delivering systems with hardware, embedded software, application software and mechanical components. 

• An understanding and appreciation of requirements capture, management, traceability processes and the importance thereof. 

• Evidence of involvement in testing & validation of distributed electronic and software systems. 

• Using in-depth product and/or industry knowledge to provide specialized technical application knowledge and expertise to sales and business development teams and the client through technical presentations and product demonstrations.  

• LAN/WAN networking and IT Network Operations experience.  

• Experience of working with Linux servers (preferably Debian derived), including set-up and administration of common services, routing and IP   

• Some experience with programming skills, including working with version control tools. 

• Capable of manual handling of equipment up to 10kg per unit and desire/passion to be involved in field engineering. 

Desirable & Development Areas 

Some of the below would be beneficial to the applicant, but opportunities to develop in these areas will also be provided:
 

• Technical sales involvement would be an advantage 

• Professional qualifications in communications systems (e.g. CCNA).  

• Experience with requirements management and lifecycle management tools 

• DB administration experience 

• Experience with wireless network deployment, wireless LAN controllers and an appreciation of networking in a dynamic environment 

• Experience of automation platforms such as Saltstack, Puppet, Ansible etc. 

• Experience of programming in Python and/or Bash 

• Experience of working in virtualized and cloud-based environments 

• Self-motivated, innovative, and constantly looking for ways to improve both product and processes 

• Experience in the rail vehicle environment with an appreciation of rolling stock regulations. In particular, evidence of defining and specifying systems to be installed onto rail vehicles would be a distinct advantage  

• Some understanding of US rail/bus market would be desirable 

• Extensive customer facing experience in a technical or product capacity  

• Evidence of contributing to the sales process by way of responding to RFIs, RFPs and RFQs 

Who we are

McLaren Applied are a medium-sized tech firm spun out of McLaren Group. We’re looking for people who will thrive in a non-hierarchical, growth-orientated company, self-starters who are flexible and somewhat entrepreneurial in their approach.

McLaren Applied are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) and promote DEI in all we do. McLaren Applied are also members of the UK Government Disability Confident Scheme.