💼 Full-Time Position

Free Space Optical Comms Systems Engineer

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Leonardo
📍 Southampton, England, United Kingdom
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Location
Southampton, United Kingdom
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Posted
June 03, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Job Description:

Your impact

Are you a Systems Engineer who loves contributing to the UKs Defence Industry and making impactful change? Leonardo has a fantastic opportunity for an Engineer to work on the modelling of airborne Free Space Optical Communication systems. You will be working on real Engineering problems, designing and developing solutions that sit at the heart of our products.

Our Systems Engineers span across 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. The successful candidate work with sub-contractors and industry partners to construct a model, devise and run experiments and interpret the results.

What you’ll do

• Build and maintain MATLAB models of optical based airborne communication systems. This will involve developi...