Design Integration & Systems Engineer

Job Description
Job title: Design Integration & Systems Engineer
Working pattern: Full-time
Location: Derby or Bristol/Hybrid
Exciting opportunities have arisen for Design Integrators and Systems Engineers to join the Design Engineering function, based at Rolls-Royce in Derby or Bristol.
This role is part of a high profile, fast paced and ambitious engineering challenge. What we are striving to achieve requires innovative thinking, creative problem solving, clarity of purpose and a willingness to demonstrate leadership at the highest level. Our engineering leadership is empathetic, team oriented, focused and equipped with a range of engineering disciplines; we anticipate you adding another pillar to an already formidable capability.
As a Design Integrator or System Engineer, you will extract and understand and define technical requirements working alongside stakeholders to develop potential solutions. You will have knowledge in problem resolution, designing and integrating products, both physical & functional systems & product systems, performing technical analysis, as well as defining verification strategies for them throughout the product lifecycle.
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.
What we offer
We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.
Your needs are as unique as you are. 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, on average three days per week.
What you will be doing:
In this role, you will be accountable for:

• 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
• Systematically investigating and understanding problems; Safety, Quality, Customer Requirement, Business Requirement using Systems Engineering principles.
• Understanding products and their interactions at 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
• Demonstrating ability to engineer complex (electro, fluid, thermal, mechanical) systems.
• Integrating outward to platform and customer environment and inwards through product systems and sub-systems.
• Defining creative, robust, optimised, solutions managing risk and applying new technology as appropriate to deliver quality within highly regulated industries.
• Supporting validation and Verification activities.
• Creating justifications for release to service.
• Supporting products in production and service.

Who 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 behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

• Ideally a Master\’s in Engineering or Bachelor\’s degree, plus relevant experience
• Technical knowledge of design methodologies and have an understanding of cross-discipline engineering concepts which include but are not limited to manufacturing engineering, aerodynamics, thermodynamics, thermal and mechanical analysis, cost engineering and product definition.
• An ability to apply logical, analytical and innovative systems level thinking on a range of technical problems and make balanced decisions across technical and business parameters
• Knowledge and experience of product integrity, reliability and certification frameworks
• Membership of a relevant professional body appropriate to region. In the UK – attained/ working towards Chartered status (and equivalent regional variations)
• Good communication and presentation skills at all levels of the organisation
• Experience in applying Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) would be preferable such as Cameo Systems Modeller and knowledge of standards such as ARP4754A/ED-79A

*To work for Rolls-Royce you may need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance for some roles. 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 for some roles , you must hold a UK nationality.*
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 realise their full potential.
We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.
You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce
Job Category
Mechanical Systems
Posting Date
10 Sept 2025; 00:09
Posting End Date
29 Nov 2025PandoLogic. , Location: Derby, ENG – DE23 8NX