Principal Systems Engineer in Bristol

Principal Systems Engineer

As a Principal Systems Engineer at Synoptix you will help guide the scope and direction of the engineering projects you are working on. In this agile environment the principal engineer is given the relative freedom to take ownership at the strategic level of the project, communicating with external stakeholders at a high level within the customer organisation and reporting back to engineering management meetings.

Internally you are seen as a technical authority and mentor to early‑career engineers, shaping their future by passing on knowledge, experience and guiding them on customer project delivery.

Responsibilities

Day to day tasking can include:

• Delivering technical consultant expertise on a variety of customer projects from air to sub‑surface
• Supporting trials at customer locations alongside Synoptix colleagues
• Working with multidisciplinary teams across programmes
• Development of proposals and statements of work
• Engaging with customer representatives to identify opportunities and seeing them through to delivery
• Attending Synoptix internal management strategy meetings
• Guiding junior engineers in project delivery where needed

Key Skills Required

We are interested in any experience of the following skills but they are not essential for you to apply:

• Requirements analysis and management
• Integration testing
• Verification & Validation
• Planning and execution of trials
• Appropriate trials review processes (trials performance / trials readiness)
• Knowledge of systems engineering tools (e.g., DOORS, MATLAB, Simulink)

Benefits

• Annual company bonus
• 25 days holiday not including bank holidays with the option to buy/sell up to 5 days
• Continuous professional development including incentives
• Access to online Udemy training facility
• Flexible working arrangements
• Bike to work scheme
• Electric car scheme
• Private health care
• Job well‑done scheme
• Employee Assistance Scheme

Please note that due to the nature of our projects we can only accept UK national candidates who will need to be eligible for UK Security Clearance.

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