# Senior Systems Engineer

Job Description: Your Impact Stop studying the future and start building it. At Leonardo, you will help create the next generation of modular secure infrastructure from our purpose-built NIGHTSHADE manufacturing centre at our Yeovil facility. NIGHTSHADE is designed to provide secure, resilient and deployable infrastructure solutions for defence and national security customers. As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will play a key role in defining product capability, translating customer needs into deliverable system solutions and ensuring the successful integration of multiple engineering disciplines into a coherent product. This is an opportunity to work at the heart of a growing product team, influencing technical direction and engineering decisions from concept through to deployment. You will collaborate closely with mechanical, electronic and support teams to ensure NIGHTSHADE meets demanding operational, performance and security requirements. Your work at Leonardo UK will contribute directly to solving complex customer challenges through innovative engineering solutions, whilst supporting the growth and evolution of a strategic product within our Cyber & Security Solutions Divisio

- **Id**: 3786452
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/leonardo-senior-systems-engineer-4>
- **Role**: Aerospace
- **Role family**: Aerospace
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Yeovil, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T19:27:38Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9241
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible schedule, Gym membership, Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: C4ISR, Defense Manufacturing, Aircraft Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 54177
- **Name**: Leonardo
- **Domain**: leonardo.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/leonardo-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 76
- **Open postings**: 201
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.94
- **Repost share**: 0.02
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 27
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Technologies

- **Verification & Validation** — Optional: no
- **MBSE** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T03:51:31Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Secondment Worker, Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker); Route: Global Business Mobility: Secondment Worker; Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:9, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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