Senior Systems & Test Integration Engineer

Innovate Recruitment Ltd; Bristol; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Innovate Recruitment Ltd is seeking a Principal/Senior Systems Integration & Test Engineer for Bristol. The role involves hands-on testing and qualification across UK, Poland, and the USA, supporting a major GBAD programme.

Hybrid work arrangement, with 3–5 days on-site, and BPSS clearance requirements. You will plan trials, work with design teams to collect data, and deliver detailed analysis of system behaviour across interfaces.

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience communicating with engineering and management stakeholders.
• Experience working in a large, multi-site team.
• Experience with the V&V lifecycle, requirements management, and defect reporting.

Responsibilities

• Plan trials with stakeholders to demonstrate integration and gather evidence for qualification.
• Coordinate with systems engineering to ensure data is captured and issues are investigated.
• Deliver in-depth analysis and reporting on system behavior across interfaces.
• Conduct and support trials across lab rigs, System of Systems integration, acceptance, and firing trials.
• Support risk assessments and maintain hardware/software assets and configuration control.

Skills

Verbal communication

Written communication

Stakeholder communication

Team collaboration

V&V lifecycle

Requirements management

Defect reporting

Tools

Wireshark

DOORS

Engineering Test Management (ETM)

Job description

Principal/Senior Systems Integration & Test Engineer Bristol | Up to £50,000 DOE | Hybrid (3-5 days on-site)

Security Clearance: British Citizens only. Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or right to work may apply. As a minimum, and following an offer being made, all successful candidates will be required to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks.

Our client, a leading name in the defence sector, is looking for a Principal Systems Integration & Test Engineer to join their growing Integration and Systems Validation team, supporting a major export programme within the Ground Based Air Defence (GBAD) domain.

The Role

A varied role combining functional testing, equipment qualification and acceptance, and problem identification and resolution. You'll get hands-on experience with real equipment, supporting testing and capability demonstrations for the end customer across sites in the UK, Poland and the USA, while working alongside external stakeholders to deliver the wider weapon system.

We're looking for a broad-based Systems Integration & Test Engineer who can:

• Work with stakeholders across the project - including partner companies and the customer community - to plan trials that demonstrate integration and gather evidence to qualify weapon systems into a wider System of Systems environment
• Liaise with systems engineering and design teams to ensure adequate trials data is acquired, and to investigate and resolve design issues
• Deliver in-depth analysis and reporting on system behaviour across internal and external interfaces
• Deliver trials across a number of environments, including:
  • Lab-based integration and functional rigs
  • System of Systems integration trials
  • Acceptance trials
  • Firing trials
• Conduct and support failure investigations
• Support safe and reliable trials, including developing and maintaining risk assessments, and managing hardware/software assets and configuration control

This is a UK-based role with opportunities to travel abroad, offering fast-paced, customer-facing work within an expanding team delivering key aspects of a next-generation GBAD programme, with direct interface into the end customer and user community.

What we're looking for

Essential

• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Experience communicating at an appropriate level with a wide range of engineering and management stakeholders
• Experience working within a large team, across multiple sites and departments
• Experience with the V&V lifecycle, requirements and configuration management, and defect reporting

Desirable (training available)

• Wireshark or similar network monitoring tool usage
• Network systems and protocols, including switch/router configuration and management
• DOORS and Engineering Test Management (ETM) requirements tools
• Basic understanding of network/cable assembly drawings
• Fault finding and root cause analysis at subsystem integration level
• Experience in customer-facing roles

Due to the security clearance requirements, only British Citizens will be considered for this role.