Industrial Placement Electronics Design

Closing Date:

17/04/2023
This vacancy may close at any time, if this role is of interest to you we recommend you apply as soon as possible.

The Opportunity

Do you want to work on real-time projects alongside leading scientists and engineers within a globally renowned company?
Leonardo is an international leader in electronic and information technologies for defence systems, aerospace, data, infrastructures, land security and protection, and sustainable ’smart’ solutions. We are a continually expanding company, offering exciting opportunities to talented individuals who want to work at the forefront of technology. With Leonardo, you can look forward to a career working alongside highly skilled professionals who are passionate about their work.
Leonardo’s Industrial Placement Programme offers you a paid placement to develop your knowledge and skills in our innovative and practical environment. In addition to working with our highly skilled engineers and business professionals, successful completion of an Industrial Placement can often lead to an offer for a permanent graduate position and securing your place on our industry leading Graduate Development Programme.
The 6 month – 1 year Industrial Placement Programme
Our Industrial Placement Programme is designed to offer you the opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills you require to become an engineering or business professional of the future. On our programme you will engage with challenging and exciting project work, and deliver innovative business or technical solutions as part of a team of subject matter experts. Throughout the programme you will receive coaching and support from your team to achieve your objectives as well as your personal development goals. You will gain a wide array of experience on your placement that you can apply to your academic studies and future career.
At Leonardo we value individuals who continuously demonstrate a dedication to their personal development, and successful completion of an Industrial Placement with Leonardo can lead to an offer on our Graduate Development Programme. We are looking for highly motivated individuals who are willing to take on a challenge to fill our industrial placement roles, and we will demand a high degree of customer focus and work performance from you in order to meet our operational challenges. If you are willing able to commit to giving your best performance, you will find Leonardo a very rewarding place to work!

What you will do

We are looking for Science & Engineering students to help us design mixed signal Digital and RF designs to execute high performance signal processing, communications and control algorithms.
You will gain valuable experience towards your future career by joining our highly skilled team designing the digital systems that form part of our self-protection systems installed on fast jet, UAV, land and naval platforms.
You will be given the opportunity to develop lifelong skills in mixed signal ADC/DAC, FPGA based designs. You will use the the latest FPGA/SOC architectures on mixed signal Digital and RF designs to execute high performance signal processing, communications and control algorithms. You will be supported by world class experts in their field.
You will learn how to assess your work in our well-equipped laboratories in order to develop robust designs that will function reliably in harsh environments to enable decades of use.
Your role may even take you across the UK or abroad for technical reviews.
Leonardo values their people and we reward commitment with a competitive remuneration and flexible benefits package including:

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  Competitive starting salary & relocation allowance (subject to eligibility)
• Generous holiday entitlement and flexible working arrangements
• Contributory pension scheme
• Private healthcare options
• Employee discounts with selected suppliers (including gym membership)
• Discounted coffee bar & restaurants at each site
• Free on-site parking

To find out about all of our Company benefits please visit:
http://www.uk.leonardocompany.com/people-careers/people/company-benefits

What we are looking for

Mandatory
Please note that in order to apply for this opportunity you must be eligible for UK Security Clearance. Normally this is to the level of Security Check (typically known as “SC”) for our business, which includes having a minimum of 5 years permanent residency in the UK, but may need to be to a higher level for this particular role due to the nature of the projects and or programmes that the role will be supporting.
Qualifications
All of our Industrial Placement roles require a minimum of a predicted 2:1 grade in a relevant degree discipline. For technical roles please note that our preferred degree disciplines include Physics, Applied Physics or Electronic Engineering.
We work in a modern, flexible environment and will accommodate your personal needs wherever possible.

Life at Leonardo

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Our UK locations

We have offices around the UK, including Basildon, Bristol, Edinburgh, Lincoln, Luton, Southampton and Yeovil

Committed to Inclusion

We are committed to creating a working environment that is designed to provide everyone with the opportunity to succeed.