MBDA Careers

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

Our world-class capability in airframe design and guided weapons aerodynamics ensures that MBDA is one of the few European companies with a core of experts who can cover the full operating domain.

This is supported by investment in novel airframe design, multi-disciplinary optimisation and rapid analysis methods.
 

The Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

The Battle Modelling team develops and uses a suite of mathematical modelling and simulation tools, including an air combat flight simulator.
 

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

Concept Studies provide customers with capability, technological and programmatic data for helping program decisions.

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

Configuration Management involves the management, planning and control of the configuration of the product throughout its life cycle - from the preliminary and development phases, to the definitions of the applicable and applied configuration, SW configuration, mass production and logistic configuration up to all levels required by the contract.
    

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

Electro-Magnetic Compatibility (EMC)

 

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

Embedded Software
MBDA has a long-standing capability in missile embedded software, responsible for all aspects of missile behaviour during operation. Software is prevalent in most subsystems including the weapon control unit, actuators, seekers and datalinks. These sub-systems are typically characterised as hard real-time, high integrity requiring both architectural and algorithmically complex solutions.
 

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

Environmental Engineering  provide expertise throughout the life cycle and generate evidence to demonstrate that MBDA’s products are safe, suitable for service and meet our customer’s expectations.
 

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) simulation is a technique to provide an effective platform for developing and testing real-time embedded systems. This enables MBDA to construct and use a range of complex simulations of modern weapon systems, employing Infra-red (IR) or radio-frequency (RF) sensors to analyse their performance against targets and counter-measures in both the infrared and radio wavebands.
 

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

Human Factors Engineering ensures that systems and equipment designs match the user requirements. Human Factors is integrated within Systems Engineering to provide essential user input early and throughout a product’s life cycle. MBDA UK’s experience covers the design and evaluation of systems across a range of military applications.
 

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

Integration and Systems Validation includes trials planning and conduct, support equipment, weapon and countermeasure systems integration, and platform integration of MBDA’s products with air, land and naval platforms.

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

The Materials Technology area works on the application, proving and testing of materials. Looking at areas such as metallic material properties, joining technologies and providing test & evaluation using techniques such as infra-Red microscopy, the team plays an important part of making sure all of the materials MBDA use for their products are fit-for-purpose.

 

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

The Mechanical Analysis Group is responsible for analysing the structural integrity and thermal performance of a design under its range of operating conditions. Working on areas such as static strength analysis, dynamic performance analysts and heat transfer through & between structures.

 

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

The Mechanical Engineering Team develop, design and support mechanical aspects of our products throughout their life-cycle in order to meet the required timescales and cost, while maintaining optimised performance for all current and future MBDA projects. These aspects include:

• Physical missile & systems product design 
• Missile mechanical airframes
• Mechanical, electromechanical, and (small) pyrotechnic sub-systems
• The management of in-house associated engineering centres of excellence
• Future preparation through implementing a strategic approach to innovation, technology, modularity, skills and investment across MBDA customer. 
   

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

Mission Planning and Control produce systems in conjuction with the missile design team. They liaise with the software teams who undertake the software design and code. Close involvement with the customer throughout ensures that the solution matches their concept of operation and is easy to use. The team develop communications systems mainly using COTS/MOTS components in order to meet the performance and increasingly strict INFOSEC needs.

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

The propulsion technology skill area is fundamental in determining the performance characteristics of a missile system. Our ability to define and integrate propulsion systems is vital in ensuring that future missile systems can match the increasingly demanding battlefield requirements for longer range, higher velocity and greater manoeuvrability against time critical targets.
 

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

Quality Assurance and Improvement help to ensure that MBDA’s hi-tech systems are delivered to the required standard. By providing Product Assurance, this team acts as advisories to areas such as Commercial and work with internal stakeholders, suppliers and the customer for both hardware and software activities.

 

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

The Datalinks Team develop and implement the equipment involved in the communications between Missile and Weapon system from System level through to equipment definition.
 

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

Safety and Dependability (S&D) provide specialist functional support in the areas of safety, reliability and information security to assist project teams in the management of these technical risks. Our experts are either seconded to project teams or operate on a consultancy basis, depending upon the project stage and need.
 

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

MBDA is responsible for the design of many warheads and its expertise supports the whole product life-cycle, from the development of concept warhead solutions, through qualification, to life-extension of in-service warheads. Supporting skills include expertise in the characteristics of explosives, modelling and simulation of impact, explosive effects and lethality performance, warhead design, and the planning and safe conduct of trials and testing of explosive devices.
This capability is organised into the Anglo-French Complex Warheads Centre of Excellence located at Bolton, Stevenage and Le-Plessis Robinson in Paris, providing opportunities for working internationally with colleagues in France, Germany and Italy.
 

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

At its core, each project has a Systems Engineering team considering the whole Systems Engineering lifecycle from Concept to System Acceptance, interfacing directly with the Customer and other stakeholders to develop and deliver a fit for purpose solution. Skills required to support this include SysML, requirements management, functional & physical definition, safety & security awareness, environmental constraints, performance assessment, specification proving and certification
 

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

Sensors are key components of MBDA products, encompassing the seekers and instrumentation sensors for guided weapon systems. These include Radio Frequency (RF) and Electo Optical (EO) sensors, Inertial Navigation (IN) Sensors and Radio Navigation by Satellites (RNS). Additionally, RF data links provide the necessary command and control capability for our weapon systems.  
 

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

Servo-Actuation Systems are responsible for the actuation servo control systems design and performance modelling, generation of control algorithms and conduction of model validation testing on hardware.

 

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

Simulation & Modelling produces mathematical representations of the characteristics of a real-world system or situation. Mathematical models are executed in a computer to simulate predictions of future system behaviour under a variety of different conditions. This capability is continuously improved through a multi-national research programme.
 

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

MBDA holds a strong skill in all the Stealth fields, acknowledged also by DGA and
by other industrial companies. The Expertise Center DGA-MI uses the numerical
simulation developed by the stealth MBDA’s experts.The stealth performance of MBDA's missiles allows our company to hold a very first rank on world level and to consider its capabilities in this field as an major advantage for its long range cruise missiles.

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

Synthetic Environments
Linking together models, simulations and real equipment to support the weapon system development is essential in testing our future systems. The use of SE can range from concept studies employing relatively low fidelity models, to experiments incorporating real equipment and military personnel across a number of sites.

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

Our System Design engineers are fundamental to the development activities of our systems. And our world class defence products cover all segments of the missile industry in terms of platforms and targets (Ground and Naval Based Defence, Air-to-Air, Precision Strike, Anti-Tank and airborne countermeasure systems).

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

Systems Design and Integration is responsible for developing and providing the expertise for products in their development phase for Weapon Systems, Missiles, Firing units and Countermeasures.

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

Working alongside colleagues across the company, our Mission Planning & Control solutions involve analysis of mission environments; creation of high-accuracy 3d target models; development of large-scale deployment planning and mission planning software; and reactive man-in-the-loop and automatic mission control systems. 

We develop the large-scale Command and Control software systems that perform surveillance, threat analysis and plan and execute engagements. Launch management and datalinks are also a part of this area of software capability.

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

Supporting all MBDA’s product range, we deliver effective test software solutions, from a single missile test harness; to the simulation of complete missile control and launch systems; to the development of training packages. Working alongside the prime equipment development teams, this domain requires very agile solutions, being responsive to the various demands of the products and the environment.

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

Thermal analysis is a field of competences in full evolution, at the crossroads of the
development of innovative architectures and the growing contribution of multiphysic
analyses. MBDA expertise covers all phases of the lifecycle: concept, development, qualification and in-service sustainment. Consequently the thermal analysis skills cover a wide field of applications and techniques requiring an in-depth knowledge of high temperature phenomena in particular (hypersonic,
combustion chamber, thrust vector control system, thermal protection, fin actuators,
energetic materials, safety, etc.)

Engineering areas focus on the core elements of our business – designing and producing missiles and missile systems. Each individual area plays a vital part in our success and global status.

Our innovative approach to hardware elements allows for rapid prototyping of future systems and has been successful in the design of our Firing Units. We’re also developing key Weapon System equipment policies that will maximise our efficiency. These solutions will then be applied to the design of other hardware domains, such as shelters and data links.