Principal Electrical Engineer, Ultra
+ Annual bonus
Office located in Greenford, Greater London
Defence and security systems
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Defence and security systems
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+ Annual bonus
Office located in Greenford, Greater London
1001+ employees
Company mission
To develop mission-critical solutions in support of a safer tomorrow.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a collaborative technical leader with strong domain knowledge and experience delivering complex electronic solutions within aerospace or defence environments
- Advanced Design Expertise: Demonstrable experience delivering complex, multi-layer board designs, FPGA and microprocessor-based systems, high-reliability power supplies, and signal conditioning circuits for demanding environments
- Leadership: Builds trust and fosters inclusive, psychologically safe teams. Recognised for mentoring engineering talent and promoting diversity of thought, encouraging professional growth and recognises individual contributions
- Stakeholder Engagement: Strong interpersonal skills. Confident in representing internal and external stakeholder interests, especially in customer-focused environments
- Innovation-Focused: Advocates for continuous improvement and encourages creativity across teams
- Operational and Governance Excellence: Organised and quality focused. Ensures robust processes and timely delivery across multiple priorities
- Resilience and Adaptability: Able to work effectively in dynamic environments. Manages priorities while maintaining focus on business outcomes
- Academic Qualifications: Masters / Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related discipline, or equivalent professional experience
- Professional Registration: Chartered Engineer (CEng) preferred, or able to achieve chartered status
- All candidates must be eligible to achieve the relevant security vetting level applicable to the role
What the job involves
- As a Principal Electronics Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in guiding engineering delivery, developing technical capability, and ensuring high standards across the Electronic and Electrical discipline. You will work closely with engineering leadership, project teams, and domain specialists to advance our technical capabilities and deliver reliable, mission critical solutions
- Contribute to the definition, development, and implementation of reliable, high integrity electronics for defence and aerospace applications, including digital, analogue, mixed signal, and power electronics
- Support architectural development and detailed design activities, including schematic capture, PCB layout input, hardware prototyping, and qualification support
- Lead or participate in design reviews (PDR, CDR, etc.) to ensure compliance with performance, environmental, EMC/EMI, and safety requirements typical of defence and aerospace environments
- Ensure engineering deliverables meet quality expectations, certification requirements, and customer standards
- Promote Design for Cost, Test, Manufacture, Support, and Reliability across all design activities
- Collaborate with manufacturing, production, and systems engineering to optimise design robustness and manufacturability
- Provide day today technical leadership to engineers across the Electronic and Electrical discipline
- Mentor junior and senior engineers, support professional registration pathways, and help build a high performance, inclusive engineering culture
- Contribute to the evolution of engineering processes, tools, and governance frameworks
- Drive improvements in design quality, engineering discipline maturity, and adherence to high technical standards
- Support recruitment, induction, and development activities to strengthen team capabilities
- Help identify future skill needs and contribute to capability development plans aligned with business growth
- Work closely with Systems, Software, Mechanical, Production, and Programme Management teams to ensure aligned and integrated engineering delivery
- Contribute to technical elements of bids, proposals, and customer engagements
- Provide technical oversight across project phases, ensuring risks, issues, dependencies, and engineering priorities are clearly understood and managed
- Support compliance with export controls, safety standards, and defence accreditation requirements
Application process
- This role requires you to undergo Baseline Personnel Security Standard Check (BPSS) as a minimum and some roles will require further national security vetting checks
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Ultra is a systems and sub-system provider specialising in solutions for the defence, security, critical detection, and control industries. The company comprises maritime, forensics, and energy divisions, an intelligence and communications division, and a unit working in Precision Control Systems for aerospace.
Ultra operates in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, working with clients including the US Department of Defense, and BAE. In 2022, Ultra was acquired – to some controversy – by US private equity firm Advent International. Concerns about the sale of a UK defence firm to a foreign entity caused the government to get involved before the deal, only allowing the acquisition under a pile of conditions.
Since then, Ultra has been undergoing active portfolio reshaping, including the planned divestment of its Precision Control Systems business and increased investment in areas such as cyber, intelligence, and mission-critical defence technologies. These moves suggest a tighter focus on Ultra's core defense capabilities, and the company's ongoing remodeling will be key in determining how it positions itself within the evolving defence and security landscape.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Marylebone, London, UK
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