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!
The role
We are looking for talented, enthusiastic Science & Engineering Graduates 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 firmware design and with 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.
About you
- 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.
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.
At Leonardo, we are strongly committed to supporting all our people, and, as society and the environment we work in changes, our approach to Inclusion and Diversity continues to evolve and adapt to reflect this. A culture of inclusion goes on to create an environment for greater collaboration, innovation and opportunities to develop as an organisation. If you are willing and able to commit to giving your best performance, you will find Leonardo a very rewarding place to work!