Data and Comms Engineer

We are looking for a Data and Comms Engineer who will:

Be passionate about their work in system safety, is looking for an exciting new challenge and will enjoy working with a world class team  to produce a safe and sustainable aircraft that is accessible to everyone. When you join Vertical Aerospace, you can expect to be part of a highly driven and motivated team comprised of leading aerospace and technology thinkers as well as some of the finest engineering talent. Vertical is a values-led business that embraces diversity in all its forms in particular diversity of thought. Vertical is committed to building an industry leading team offering global perspectives that represent the communities it serves.

The responsibilities and duties of the Data and Comms Engineer will be as follows:

• Contributor to a team that is developing innovative data & communication system solutions from the aircraft to the cloud
• Facilitating the elicitation of stakeholder requirements, including customer, business, and technical
• Generating system concepts and performing trade studies to down-select potential solutions
• Ensuring that requirements are robustly validated and requirement maturity/risks are understood and communicated to the project team
• Assisting with troubleshooting of the product
• Creating high quality flight clearance documents
• Occasional working at a test site with the aircraft and equipment

The successful Data and Comms Engineer will have the following Experiences & Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT or relevant discipline
• Knowledge of data and communications equipment (routers, radios, networks etc)
• Experience with databases
• Good scripting and basic programing skills with knowledge of object-orientated design
• Knowledge of data visualisation tools
• Experience with comms equipment / avionics
• Experience working in an iterative engineering environment
• Experience in development of software intensive projects and data networks
• Coping with ambiguity and prioritising your work in a dynamic working environment

Preferred Qualifications/Experience 

• Formal system design techniques such as n² analysis
• Knowledge of version control, continuous integration and continuous deployment
• Proficiency with Matlab and/or Python
• Proficiency in SQL
• Experience of machine learning techniques
• Experience in C++
• Knowledge of Azure services

Do you like the look of this opportunity but not sure if you meet all of the criteria we’ve outlined in the advert?

Here at Vertical, we are working to create an environment of growth, diversity and opportunities for people to take on challenges and push the status quo. 

If you are excited about this role or joining us but your experience or qualifications are not completely aligned with the criteria, we would still love to hear from you, this may be the role for you! 

This is an on-going advert and interviews will be held on an ad-hoc basis until sufficient applications have been received.