Rolls-Royce
Systems Engineering & Verification Engineer
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Job Description: Systems Engineering & Verification Engineer
Full-time
Bristol
About the Role
Future Programmes UK and International is at the heart of securing the future growth of the Defence business. We are delivering tomorrow’s technology fast, by bringing together the company’s best engineers, programme managers, and business professionals. Working in partnership with Governments, primes, and new technology companies across the globe, we deliver future solutions, new and innovative power and propulsion concepts, technology, and applications to meet the customers emerging requirements.
The Systems Engineering, Validation & Verification group is recruiting Systems Engineering & Verification Engineers to fulfil exciting roles across our Defence Programmes. In all areas, these roles involve working with a range of key business stakeholders to support the delivery of key programme milestones, thus enabling the delivery of our Defence Combat strategy for the next 50 years.
This is how we create brilliance, which we should sell by letting the facts speak for themselves. Rolls-Royce’s customers and the company have entrusted us to deliver the future technologies, people, processes, and programmes. Successful delivery of these programmes will ensure both the UK and Rolls-Royce retains combat capability, ensuring freedom of action for the UK and enabling the company to maintain our market share in the Naval, Defence Aero, and combat markets.
About You
As a Systems Engineering & Verification Engineer you will be the focal point for understanding and developing new engineering products and services. As part of this role, you will be expected to interface across a number of stakeholders both internally and externally within the company to extract and understand technical requirements and work alongside these stakeholders to develop potential solutions which can be used to serve business and customer needs.
As part of this new team, you will be exploring and developing new system engineering practices within the company such as the use of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) to assist in the understanding of potential business and technical architectures and solutions.
Why Rolls-Royce?
Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build, and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount. We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting, and connecting people everywhere.
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We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey. We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.
What We Offer
- Excellent development opportunities
- Competitive salary
- Exceptional benefits, including bonus, employee support assistance, and employee discounts
- Hybrid working arrangement
Key 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
- Establish and maintain an appropriate information structure for the project (Customer, Business, System, Sub-System, and Component) and develop/maintain associated management plans
- Represent Rolls-Royce as required on specific customer and partner working groups related to the project
- Ensure project risks (technical, cost, supply chain, and timescale) are identified, managed, and escalated in accordance with the risk management plan
- Develop product verification strategies and compliance statements
- Deploy and evaluate new SE tools, such as MBSE, on agreed programmes
What We Are Looking For
At Rolls-Royce, we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple, and make a difference. These principles form the behaviors that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.
- Be qualified to degree level in a STEM subject and with experience in a relevant engineering environment (Mechanical, Aeronautical, Electrical, or Controls)
- Be capable of systems-level thinking and have evidence of their experience deploying Systems Engineering techniques to solve complex problems
- Have evidence of their ability to communicate and collaborate effectively across different engineering disciplines
- Preferably have a broad understanding of Gas Turbine functional operation and physical characteristics
- Preferably have experience using Systems Engineering tools such as IBM DOORS or Cameo Systems Modeller and knowledge of standards such as ARP4754A/ED-79A
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Security Clearance
To work for Rolls-Royce Defence, you need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. 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, you must be eligible for SC Clearance. Dual nationals may require additional scrutiny and background checks prior to commencing work with Rolls-Royce Defence.
Equal Opportunities Employer
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 realize their full potential.
The professional level and salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate but is anticipated to be Staff Grade 7-10. This job is advertised at the grades shown, and this is the desired operating level for this role. We encourage applications from candidates with relevant experience from any grade.
It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.
Grade: SNBG 7 - 10
For further information, please contact:
Michael Thatcher
Job Category: Engineering for Services
Posting Date: 07 Jul 2026; 00:07
Posting End Date: 20 Jul 2026
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