Engineer - System Design (SDI) in Bristol

Job Description System Design Integrator Full time/Part Time Bristol/Hybrid 3days in the office

Exciting opportunities have arisen for Design Integrators and Systems Engineers to join the Design Engineering function, based at Rolls‑Royce in Bristol. This role is part of a high profile, and fast paced and significant engineering challenge. What we are striving to achieve requires innovative thinking, creative problem solving and, clarity of purpose. Our engineering governance team is empathetic, team oriented and focused. As a Design Integrator or System Engineer, you will extract, understand and define technical requirements working alongside stakeholders to develop potential solutions. You will ideally have knowledge in problem resolution, designing and integrating products, both physical & functional systems & product systems, performing technical assessment, as well as defining verification strategies for them throughout the product lifecycle.

In this role, you will be accountable for:

• Managing Systems Engineering across the entire life‑cycle.
• Connecting with and providing 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
• Use Systems Engineering tools to systematically investigate and understand problems including Safety, Quality, Customer & Business Requirements.
• Understanding products and their interactions at various system levels such as 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.
• Working in teams to engineer complex (electro, fluid, thermal, mechanical) systems.
• Integrating outward to platform and customer environment and inwards through product systems and sub‑systems.
• Defining robust solutions.
• Managing risk.
• Supporting Validation and Verification activities.
• Creating justifications for release to service.
• Supporting products in production and service.

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. 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. Work with us and we’ll welcome you into a culture of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. We will listen first, embrace feedback and act with integrity. We will invest in your continuous learning and development, and make sure you have access to a wide breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career and make a difference. We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, frequency will depend on business needs, nature of role, what works for the team and for the individual. Discover more on our GBS Service Portal about hybrid working.

Who we’re looking for

Being a part of Rolls‑Royce you’ll know we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form our behaviours. They are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles. At Rolls‑Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These are the core behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

• Experience in an engineering discipline or an engineering degree or regional equivalent qualification.
• An understanding of Systems Engineering, System Design or System Integration tools and techniques.
• An understanding of the importance of requirements and how to help elicit requirements.
• An understanding of how systems integrate to achieve top level requirements and the importance of emergent properties.
• Have an understanding of either gas turbines or relevant systems that would have parallels with our sub‑systems (fuel, oil, air, control).
• Good communication and presentation skills with an ability to collaborate effectively across different engineering discipline.

Join us & help Rolls‑Royce to become a high‑performing, competitive, resilient business.

We’re 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.

And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be.

By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

Learn more about our global Inclusion Strategy

To work for Rolls‑Royce you need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance. Rolls‑Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you don’t currently already have this in place. Grade: SNBG 7-10 Job Category Mechanical Systems Posting Date 04 Aug 2026; 00:08 Posting End Date 30 Aug 2026.

Rolls‑Royce pioneers cutting‑edge technologies that deliver the cleanest, safest and most competitive solutions to our planet’s vital power needs.