Design Integration & Systems Engineer

Rolls Royce; Derby; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace engineering company is seeking a Design Integration & Systems Engineer for their Derby or Bristol locations. This role involves leading systems engineering, understanding technical requirements, and integrating complex systems. Ideal candidates hold a Master's or Bachelor's in Engineering, possess technical design knowledge, and have strong communication skills. The position supports professional development and offers a hybrid working pattern.

Benefits

Commitment to diversity and inclusion

Support for professional development

Qualifications

• Technical knowledge of cross-discipline engineering concepts.
• Experience with product integrity and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Lead Systems Engineering across the entire life-cycle.
• Facilitate validation of stakeholder requirements.
• Investigate and understand problems using Systems Engineering principles.

Skills

Technical knowledge of design methodologies

Analytical thinking

Good communication skills

Experience in Model Based Systems Engineering

Education

Master’s in Engineering or Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Cameo Systems Modeller

Job description

Overview

Job title: Design Integration & Systems Engineer

Working pattern: Full-time

Location: Derby or Bristol/Hybrid

Exciting opportunities have arisen for Design Integrators and Systems Engineers to join the Design Engineering function, based at Rolls-Royce in Derby or Bristol.

This role is part of a high profile, fast paced and ambitious engineering challenge. What we are striving to achieve requires innovative thinking, creative problem solving, clarity of purpose and a willingness to demonstrate leadership at the highest level. Our engineering leadership is empathetic, team oriented, focused and equipped with a range of engineering disciplines; we anticipate you adding another pillar to an already formidable capability.

As a Design Integrator or System Engineer, you will extract and understand and define technical requirements working alongside stakeholders to develop potential solutions. You will have knowledge in problem resolution, designing and integrating products, both physical & functional systems & product systems, performing technical analysis, as well as defining verification strategies for them throughout the product lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead Systems Engineering across the entire life-cycle. Integrate with and provide systems engineering coaching or training to engineers from other functions.
• Facilitate the elicitation, maturation and validation of stakeholder requirements including customer, business, and technical to ensure robust problem and solution space understanding
• Systematically investigating and understanding problems; Safety, Quality, Customer Requirement, Business Requirement using Systems Engineering principles.
• Understanding products and their interactions at platform, system, sub-system, component, component feature and manufacturing process level.
• Defining and interpreting product definition and documentation.
• Develop product verification strategies and compliance statements
• Demonstrating ability to engineer complex (electro, fluid, thermal, mechanical) systems.
• Integrating outward to platform and customer environment and inwards through product systems and sub-systems.
• Defining creative, robust, optimised, solutions managing risk and applying new technology as appropriate to deliver quality within highly regulated industries.
• Supporting validation and Verification activities.
• Creating justifications for release to service.
• Supporting products in production and service.

Who we are looking for

• Ideally a Master’s in Engineering or Bachelor’s degree, plus relevant experience
• Technical knowledge of design methodologies and have an understanding of cross-discipline engineering concepts which include but are not limited to manufacturing engineering, aerodynamics, thermodynamics, thermal and mechanical analysis, cost engineering and product definition.
• An ability to apply logical, analytical and innovative systems level thinking on a range of technical problems and make balanced decisions across technical and business parameters
• Knowledge and experience of product integrity, reliability and certification frameworks
• Membership of a relevant professional body appropriate to region. In the UK - attained/ working towards Chartered status (and equivalent regional variations)
• Good communication and presentation skills at all levels of the organisation
• Experience in applying Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) would be preferable such as Cameo Systems Modeller and knowledge of standards such as ARP4754A/ED-79A

*To work for Rolls-Royce you may need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance for some roles. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you don\'t currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets for some roles , you must hold a UK nationality.*

We are an equal opportunities employer. We\'re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we\'ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

Job Category: Mechanical Systems

Posting Date: 10 Sept 2025; 00:09

Posting End Date: 29 Nov 2025