Principal Systems Engineer - Bolton

Technical Engineering
Ref: 9087 Date Posted: Wednesday 17 Sep 2025

Location:               Bristol, Bolton, or Stevenage

Salary:                   Up to £60,000 P/A + excellent bonus & benefits

Hours:                   37 hours per week

Do you want to join a business, who value inclusivity, a three-time gold investor in people award winner, an advocate of supporting women in engineering and developing their people to be the best they can be?

As part of our Systems Design Emerging Portfolio and Capability function you will deliver systems engineering expertise to projects focussing on the front end of the product life cycle, designing the latest Complex defence capabilities for the UK and partner nation Armed Forces.

The opportunity:

Whether embedded in a multi-disciplinary team, or leading an individual work package, you will gain broad engineering experience, engaging partners, co-ordinating technology specialists, and developing advanced systems engineering techniques.

Through our people management opportunities, you can learn to lead teams, and play a part in developing the engineers of the future.

Benefits of working here:

  • State of the art technology & innovation
  • External learning and development encouraged
  • Light and airy university type campus
  • Friendly environment!
    • Restaurant, On site Medical Centre, Parking / Easy Access to train station, Coffee Shops & Onsite Shop, Sports & Social Club and More

Skills Required:

  • Systems engineering experience in any of the following skill areas:
    • Requirements and Use Case analysis
    • Concept assessment and design trade studies
    • System architecture design and functional modelling
    • Performance assessment and systems behaviour analysis
    • Verification, Validation and Certification
    • Model based engineering techniques, including MBSE
  • Broader engineering management experience is welcome, particularly gained through leadership of work packages, integration of complex activities or, managing technical relationships with customers or suppliers.

You will need to obtain UK Security Clearance for this role. This will require you to either be a UK Citizen. Some restrictions may apply.

Cirrus Selection offers the services of an Employment Agency for permanent recruitment and the services of an Employment Business for contract recruitment.

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