Industrial Placement Electronics Engineer

This is a full-time, fixed-term industrial placement for one year.

Your Impact

Gain hands-on experience working on real-world projects from day one at Leonardo, a company focused on innovation, advancing technology, and enhancing global safety.

Our placements are designed to help you apply your studies in a practical setting, develop your technical skills, and gain valuable insight into how our business operates.

Industrial Placement Programme

Spend a year working on meaningful projects alongside industry leaders in multidisciplinary teams, across the product lifecycle. You’ll receive a salary and coaching and support from a dedicated team to help you achieve your placement objectives and personal development goals.

Successful completion may lead to an offer on our Graduate Development Programme.

As an Industrial Placement Electronics Engineer you will:

• Support the design and development of electro-optical, communications, and information system products under the guidance of experienced Electronics Engineering Leads.
• Be introduced to state-of-the-art methods, technology, and tools to explore all aspects of the development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, implementation, test, acceptance, and product support.
• Interface with customers (internal and external) on design factors.
• Liaise closely with Engineers from other disciplines including Mechanical, Software, Systems, Supportability, and Design Integrity.
• Design, document, build, and test electronics circuits and firmware designs.
• Potentially be involved in designing for mixed signal design, power supply design, DAC/ADC, FPGA, high-speed serial interfaces, and video/communication processing algorithms.
• Engage with technologies across a diverse range of products including Thermal Imaging Cameras, Vehicle Camera systems, Counter UAV systems, Electronic Warfare products, and Communication Systems.
• Develop expertise in the design of circuits, FPGAs, and subsystems at various stages in the product lifecycle.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Learn the skills required to become a professional Electronics Engineer.
• Work to timescales.
• Act as a contributory engineering team member (with support).
• Undertake day-to-day engineering activities with some guidance and support.
• Ask for support where appropriate and learn from more experienced team members.
• Contribute to engineering team decisions and understand their relationship to project success criteria.
• Explore new experiences and opportunities to learn within the engineering environment.

What you will Bring:

Qualifications

• Currently studying an electronics biased degree including modules covering topics such as digital design, analogue design, and signal processing.
• Experience of using PCB design and simulation tools is highly desirable.

Security Clearance

• Many roles are subject to security and export control restrictions.
• Successful applicants will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record declaration information, and employment and/or education history verification for the previous five years.
• For more sensitive posts, additional personnel security controls (National Security Vetting) apply. This may consider background, travel history, nationality, and previous nationalities held.
• Generally, applicants for SC level vetting will be expected to have continuously resided in the UK for the previous five years. For DV clearance, this is typically ten years.

Why join us:

• Time to recharge: Generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi-days each year.
• Secure your future: Benefit from an award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
• Your wellbeing matters: Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee-led networks.
• Tailored perks: Spend up to £500 annually on flexible benefits including private healthcare, dental, family cover, tech & lifestyle discounts, and gym memberships.

Location

• Southampton
• Hybrid working is available.

Application Information

• Apply now to be part of something extraordinary.