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🥝 Principal Systems Engineer

Leonardo | Southampton, United Kingdom | Posted June 04, 2026

Job Description

Job Description:

Are you an experienced Systems Engineer or Scientist with an Electronics background? We are recruiting for a Principal Systems Engineer in our growing Detectors Area of Business, who can apply their expertise to deliver cutting-edge Electro-optic/InfraRed (EO/IR) capabilities across our Detector products.

Based at our dedicated site in Southampton and offered with our award winning package.

Your Impact

Our Systems Engineers span across a range of activities that help pull together all the necessary engineering and technology strands into a high-performance system. As a Systems Engineer, you will bridge the gap between the theoretically possible and the practically implementable.

What we build is exciting, interesting, challenging and complex. A diverse product portfolio of EO/IR technologies, with each programme at a different stage in its development lifecycle.

Typical work you might be involved in:

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