Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Group Overview

Electromagnetic and Cyber Group (EM&C) is responsible for developing flexible and survivable advanced electronic warfare and secure communications equipment while providing the industry’s leading signals intelligence, electronic warfare, and cyber experts. Metrea specializes in signal classification, direction finding, advanced geolocation techniques, and waveform development including waveforms for MANET and LPI/LPD applications. Metrea also develops special purpose radios for government customers and licenses DF and geolocation solutions to multiple OEMs.

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Electrical Systems Engineer to support the research, design, development, integration and delivery of expeditionary systems within the Electronic Warfare and Cyber capability space.

The role will be responsible for the electrical engineering aspects of prototype and operational systems, including electrical architecture, power distribution, equipment integration, wiring and cable design, system protection, installation, testing and fault diagnosis.

The Electrical Systems Engineer will work as part of a multidisciplinary team comprising systems, RF, mechanical, software, cyber and operational specialists. The role will support the full engineering lifecycle, from early concept development and technical evaluation through to detailed design, integration, trials, deployment and through-life support.

This is a practical, delivery-focused engineering role. The successful candidate will be comfortable working in a laboratory or workshop, integrating equipment onto operational platforms, supporting field trials and deploying within the UK and internationally.

The role will be based either in Lincoln or London, with a longer-term intent to transition the primary location to London if hired initially in Lincoln.

What You'll Do

Design, develop and integrate electrical systems for expeditionary Electronic Warfare, Cyber, signals intelligence and secure communications capabilities
Develop robust electrical architectures covering power generation, conversion, distribution, protection, control and monitoring
Produce electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, cable schedules, interface definitions, bills of materials and installation documentation
Support rapid R&D, prototyping and technology evaluation, translating operational requirements into practical deployable solutions