Stevenage Simulation and Modelling Engineer
Undergraduate Placement 2026 Modelling modern weapon systems comes with many unique challenges.
Salary : £23,495 Dynamic (Hybrid) Working: The majority of your time you'll be working onsite in an office environment with a team of people around you to support you with your work.
Security clearance: CLOSING DATE FOR THIS ROLE IS MIDNIGHT ON 5TH JANUARY 2026 (SUBJECT TO APPLICATION VOLUMES) What we can offer you 1 year placement: starting September 2026, that allows you to apply your university learning to real-world projects and technologies Company bonus : based on company performance and will vary year to year Pension : maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14% Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime Annual Leave: 25 days plus option to purchase extra holiday Flexi Leave: up to 15 additional days Facilities : fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more The opportunity System modelling is a vital tool used to ensure MBDA provides reliable and cost effective weapon systems to our customers! We build a variety of dynamic system performance models, embedded systems and real time models for MBDA products.
When used internally our performance models allow our system designers to estimate performance, which they can use to guide the product design.
For our customer, performance models provide a method of verifying system performance whilst reducing reliance on prohibitively expensive testing and trials.
Our real time models contribute to training environments for pilots and provide a variety of engineering testing capabilities.
Once the product is in service, the customer continues to use our models to understand system capability and assist with operator training.
You'll learn how to build simulation software in programming languages/environments such as: Mathworks (MATLAB, Simulink and Stateflow) Fortran C/C++ Our teams implement Agile working practices and dynamic working across multiple projects to meet demand, aided by the use of collaborative tools.
We also work closely with other departments and companies to integrate subsystem models and design data.
General, Mechanical, Manufacturing / Production, Aeronautical/Aerospace, Software), or Mathematics, Physics, Computing or Natural Science field.
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