Design Integration & Systems Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace manufacturer is seeking a Design Integration & Systems Engineer to join their team. This role involves working on technical requirements, solving engineering problems, and developing solutions throughout the product lifecycle. Ideal candidates will have a Master's or Bachelor's degree in Engineering, excellent technical knowledge, and experience in Systems Engineering. This position offers a hybrid working environment located in Derby or Bristol.

Qualifications

• Master's in Engineering or Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Technical knowledge of design methodologies required.
• Good communication and presentation skills necessary.

Responsibilities

• Lead Systems Engineering across the entire lifecycle.
• Facilitate the elicitation and validation of stakeholder requirements.
• Develop product verification strategies and compliance statements.

Skills

Systems Engineering

Problem Resolution

Technical Analysis

Cross-discipline Engineering Concepts

Education

Master's in Engineering or Bachelor's degree

Tools

Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)

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.

Role

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.

Qualifications

• Ideally a Master\'s in Engineering or Bachelor's degree, plus relevant experience
• Technical knowledge of design methodologies and cross-discipline engineering concepts including manufacturing engineering, aerodynamics, thermodynamics, thermal and mechanical analysis, cost engineering and product definition
• 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 - 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 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.

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. 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 strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

Job Category

Mechanical Systems

Posting Date

10 Sept 2025; 00:09

Posting End Date

29 Nov 2025

Location: Derby, ENG - DE23 8NX