Senior Systems Engineer – Gas Analysis Products

Servomex; Crowborough; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary Bonus

Private Medical Insurance

Personal Pension Plan

25 days annual leave

Life Assurance

Cycle to Work Scheme

Free Parking

Job summary

Servomex is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer (Product) to drive systems engineering across the full product development lifecycle. You will lead requirements, architecture, risk management and verification activities with multidisciplinary teams to ensure compliant, high-quality products.

The role emphasizes technical governance, robust design, and maintaining traceability from requirements to release, with opportunities to influence product strategy and engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• Candidates should have strong experience with systems engineering across full product lifecycle.
• Experience in product development and technical leadership.
• Experience with requirements elicitation, decomposition, allocation, and management.
• Proven experience maintaining requirements traceability.
• Knowledge of verification and validation methodologies.
• Experience leading risk assessments, FMEA, and technical reviews.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements engineering: capture, analyze, and manage stakeholder and regulatory requirements.
• Contribute to system architecture development and design trade-offs.
• Lead risk assessments and technical governance across development.
• Define and drive verification and validation strategies and evidence.
• Champion systems engineering best practices across the business.

Skills

Systems engineering

Product lifecycle

Requirements management

Traceability

System architecture

Risk assessment

FMEA

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Root cause analysis

Mentoring engineers

Education

Systems engineering degree

Tools

Jama/DOORS

SysML modeling

Job description

At Servomex, our products support critical applications across clean energy, industrial safety, emissions monitoring, semiconductor manufacturing, and medical oxygen production, where performance, reliability, and compliance are essential.

We're looking for an experienced Senior Systems Engineer (Product) to help shape the future of our products by leading systems engineering activities across the full product development life cycle.

This critical opportunity is ideal for a technically capable engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, working across multiple engineering disciplines, and translating customer and business needs into robust, well-engineered solutions. You'll play a key role in establishing systems engineering best practice, driving technical governance, and ensuring products are released with confidence in their performance, safety, reliability, and compliance.

Please note: the successful candidate must have Right to Work in the UK on a permanent basis – no sponsorship is available for this opportunity.

What You'll Be Doing

Working closely with Research, Product Development, Software, Electronics, Mechanical Engineering, Production, Quality, and Regulatory teams, you will:

Requirements Engineering

• Lead the capture, analysis, and management of customer, stakeholder, business, and regulatory requirements
• Translate user needs into clear, measurable, and testable system requirements
• Establish and maintain complete bidirectional traceability throughout the product lifecycle
• Facilitate requirements reviews and ensure alignment between stakeholders and development teams
• Manage requirement changes and maintain configuration control throughout development

System Architecture & Design

• Contribute to system architecture development and technical solution definition
• Support concept development, requirements allocation, and design trade-off activities
• Evaluate technical decisions against performance, reliability, compliance, manufacturability, and business objectives
• Ensure solutions remain scalable, maintainable, and testable

Risk Management & Technical Governance

• Lead system-level risk assessments and FMEA activities
• Identify, communicate, and manage technical risks throughout product development
• Facilitate design reviews and provide robust technical justification for engineering decisions
• Apply systems-thinking approaches to root cause investigations and problem solving

Verification & Validation

• Develop verification and validation strategies aligned to system and product requirements
• Define acceptance criteria, verification methods, and evidence requirements
• Review verification results and validation outcomes to ensure complete coverage of requirements
• Support system-level testing activities and provide objective assessments of product readiness

Leadership & Continuous Improvement

• Champion systems engineering best practices across the business

About You

We're looking for someone with the desire to own the full product development lifestyle, with the ability to influence across multidisciplinary teams.

Essential Experience And Skills

• Strong experience and understanding of systems engineering principles across the full product lifecycle (from requirement to post release)
• Solid and proven experience in product development and technical leadership
• Experience with requirements elicitation, decomposition, allocation, and management
• Proven experience maintaining requirements traceability
• Strong knowledge of verification and validation methodologies
• Experience leading risk assessments, FMEA activities, and technical reviews
• Understanding of system architecture development and interface management
• Experience working with multidisciplinary products involving software, electronics, mechanics, instrumentation, and complex systems
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a structured approach to root cause analysis
• Ability to balance technical, commercial, regulatory, and operational considerations when making engineering decisions
• Experience mentoring engineers and promoting engineering best practice

Desirable Experience And Skills

• Experience with requirements management tools such as Jama, DOORS, or equivalent
• Knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and SysML
• Experience within analytical instrumentation, spectroscopy, gas analysis, process monitoring, or related technologies
• Familiarity with ISO 9001, CE/UKCA compliance, EMC, and product safety standards
• Exposure to automated testing, data analysis, Python, or LabVIEW
• INCOSE, Six Sigma, Project Management, Quality, or Atlassian/Jira certifications

Qualifications

• Degree-qualified in Systems Engineering, Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics, Electronics, Software Engineering, or a related discipline

Why Join Servomex?

At Servomex, you'll have the opportunity to work on technically challenging products that help customers improve safety, sustainability, efficiency, and performance across global industries. You'll join an organisation that values engineering rigour, innovation, and collaboration while providing opportunities to influence product strategy and drive engineering excellence.

Location

Crowborough, East Sussex (onsite five days/week, Monday to Friday) during probation.

A hybrid working arrangement of 3 to 4 days onsite after probation – flexibility may be required due to business demands

Type of opportunity: Full time and permanent

Salary: £60,000 to £65,000

Servomex considers several factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Benefits

• Discretionary Company Bonus
• Opportunities for growth & development through our structured Talent Management System
• Annual Performance Review
• Private Medical Insurance
• Personal Pension Plan (up to 10.5% employer contribution)
• Employee Wellbeing Programme
• 25 days’ annual leave with option to buy more + Bank Holidays + Company Shutdown Day
• Two Volunteering Days
• Life Assurance (4 x Salary)
• Enhanced Family Friendly benefits & pay
• Staff Referral Scheme and Long Service Awards
• Global Recognition Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Free Parking

Interview & Selection Process

We want you to feel confident that Servomex is the right place for you. Throughout the process, you’ll have plenty of chances to ask questions and get a real sense of who we are, what we do and what your future here could look like.

• Friendly chat with our Talent Team
• Teams video interview with the hiring team
• Teams video scenario-based activity
• On‑site interview, meet the team and tour of our facility

We welcome and support candidates who may need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. You will have an opportunity to tell us about any adjustments you may need when you apply, and we will do our best to put these in place.

We are also committed to making reasonable adjustments for employees wherever possible, so that everyone can perform their role to the best of their ability.