Principal Integration & Systems Validation Engineer

Location               Bristol (UK-based with international travel opportunities)

Term                     Permanent (37 hours per week)

Package              Up to £50,000 p/a | Overtime | Flexi | Bonus | Pension

Want to work on cutting-edge defence systems and see your work tested in real-world scenarios? This is your chance to join a growing Integration & Systems Validation team supporting a major international programme.

This is a hands-on, high-impact role combining system integration, trials, and validation activities across complex systems. You will be working directly with real equipment, delivering trials and demonstrations across the UK, Poland and the USA.

Expect variety, responsibility and the chance to work closely with customers and stakeholders at every level.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Planning and delivering integration & system validation trials
• Supporting lab, system-of-systems, acceptance and live firing trials
• Investigating faults and driving resolution of complex issues
• Analysing system behaviour across multiple interfaces
• Collaborating with engineering teams, partners and customers
• Ensuring safe, controlled and successful trial delivery

Why This Role Stands Out

If you’re looking for a role where you can get hands-on with advanced systems, travel internationally, and play a key part in delivering mission-critical capability, this is it.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong experience in systems integration, V&V or trials
• Confident communicator across technical and non-technical teams
• Experience working across multi-site, multi-discipline environments
• Knowledge of requirements, configuration & defect management

Desirable:

• Networking / protocols / Wireshark
• DOORS or similar requirements tools
• Fault finding at subsystem level
• Customer-facing experience

What’s in It for You

Bonus up to £2,500, Pension up to 14% total contribution, Flexible & hybrid working, Up to 15 additional flexi leave days, Paid overtime opportunities, Enhanced parental leave (up to 26 weeks), Healthcare cash plan, Excellent on-site facilities (including subsidised meals & free parking)

Apply now through Cirrus Selection and take your next step into a high-impact role working on products and systems that really matter, and play a key part in keeping the UK safe, and critical to national security, you know what to do.

You will need to be a British citizen, and eligible for UK security clearance.

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