Job Description
As an Electrical/Electronics Verification Specialist, you will join the Derby team to support our activities within the aerospace sector.
Working as a consultant with ALTEN, you will contribute to the development and certification of next-generation electric aircraft systems that are redefining sustainable aviation. This role sits at the intersection of systems engineering, safety analysis, and verification & validation, ensuring complex aircraft systems meet strict regulatory and certification standards. You will play a key role in supporting requirements definition, verification planning, and compliance demonstration across component, system, and aircraft-level testing within a highly regulated environment.
Location: Derby
On Site: Remote
Clearance: Full right to work in the UK
Experience Level: 10+ Years
Key Responsibilities
* Develop, manage, and validate aircraft-, system-, and component-level requirements, ensuring alignment with regulatory and certification standards.
* Create and maintain verification plans, procedures, and test reports, supporting requirements-based verification across component, system, and aircraft levels.
* Apply SAE ARP4754A and ARP4761 processes throughout the system lifecycle, ensuring traceability from requirements to compliance evidence.
* Support safety assessments including Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), and FMEA.
* Coordinate and execute laboratory, integration, and system-level testing, verifying systems such as environmental control systems, interiors, structural systems, lighting, and electric propulsion components.
* Work closely with certification engineers, design engineers, suppliers, and test teams to ensure verification activities support overall aircraft certification schedules.
* Manage requirements and verification traceability within ALM environments, ensuring bidirectional traceability between requirements, tests, and compliance documentation.
Qualifications
Required Skills
* Strong experience in Verification & Validation (V&V) within aerospace or safety-critical engineering environments.
* Deep knowledge of requirements management and traceability within ALM tools such as Polarion.
* Working knowledge of SAE ARP4754A, SAE ARP4761, and certification-driven development processes.
* Experience supporting FAA or EASA certification programmes including Part 23, 25, 27, or 29 aircraft.
* Ability to develop requirements-based test strategies, verification procedures, and compliance documentation.
* Strong experience collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams in safety-critical aerospace programmes.
Required Qualifications
* A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent military experience.
* 10+ years’ experience supporting aircraft systems verification, safety analysis, or certification programmes.
* Proven experience working within certification-driven aerospace development environments.
* Strong understanding of RTCA DO-160, DO-178C, DO-331, and related aerospace verification standards.
Desirable Skills
* Experience supporting electric propulsion systems, hybrid-electric aircraft, or advanced air mobility platforms.
* Familiarity with CATIA, SolidWorks, Onshape, or similar CAD modelling tools.
* Experience with ANSYS, reliability analysis tools (Isograph, Relyence), or Windchill PLM environments.
* Knowledge of Python or test automation frameworks to support automated verification workflows.
* Exposure to Part 23 Amendment 64, ASTM F3338, or Part 33 propulsion certification programmes.
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.