Excellent permanent career opportunities, various roles and seniority levels available

I am delighted to share our current EOI for defence engineering opportunities based in Melbourne. Whilst opportunities vary in seniority and experience level, they all offer excellent career progression, benefit packages and project exposure.
Key considerations for all roles:

- Australian Citizenship: Mandatory
- Technical background for all roles are: Electronics, Communications, Mechatronics, Systems or Software.

Systems Engineering Manager | MelbourneLead and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team delivering complex, mission-critical software and systems integration projects. Ideal for a senior technical leader who enjoys balancing engineering governance, resource management and systems engineering excellence.
- Strong engineering experience with 10+ years applying systems engineering principles in complex environments.
- 5+ years' experience in technical leadership, resource planning and engineering management.
- Strong background in systems design, integration, configuration management and engineering governance.
- Engineering or Computer Science degree required.

Lead Systems Engineer | MelbourneA hands-on technical leadership role focused on complex software-intensive systems, architecture, integration and customer-facing engineering delivery.
- Strong experience in systems engineering, systems integration and software-based solutions.
- Strong expertise in Linux, networking, network security, XML and virtualisation technologies.
- Proven experience across requirements' management, system design, integration, testing, verification and validation.
- Ability to lead technical decisions, define architectures and work closely with software and hardware development teams.
- Degree in Software Engineering,



Electronics Engineering or Computer Science.

Senior Systems Engineer | MelbourneJoin a highly technical engineering team delivering complex software and system integration projects across the full systems engineering lifecycle.
- Strong systems engineering experience in complex, software-driven environments.
- Strong capability in requirements analysis, system design, integration, verification and validation activities.
- Experience using systems engineering tools such as DOORS and managing engineering artefacts.
- Knowledge of software quality assurance, safety-critical systems, cybersecurity and integrated logistics support considerations.
- Degree qualified in Systems, Software or Electronics Engineering.

Project Engineering Manager | MelbourneLead the delivery of complex engineering projects, providing technical leadership while managing multidisciplinary teams and project engineering outcomes.
- Significant experience applying systems engineering principles to complex software and integrated system projects.
- Proven leadership experience managing engineering teams, technical scope, risk and project delivery.
- Strong systems integration expertise with the ability to manage complex technical challenges and stakeholder engagement.
- Experience across systems engineering management plans, testing strategies, safety, human factors, cybersecurity and supportability.
- Engineering or Computer Science degree required.

Systems Engineer | Melbourne
- NV1 Clearance
- Systems engineering process experience, full lifecycle ideal.
- Experience with Linux
- Electronics, Communications and Network experience.

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