Systems Engineer

Salary: £70,000 - 80,000 per year

Requirements:

• Extensive experience in systems engineering, requirements engineering, solution architecture, or related technical roles
• Strong experience writing and managing complex technical requirements for large-scale systems
• Experience working on surveillance, defence, security, or other mission-critical operational systems
• Strong knowledge of requirements engineering, decomposition, traceability, and verification methodologies
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with Product Management, engineering, and delivery teams
• Ability to translate ambiguous operational needs into structured technical requirements
• Strong understanding of complex integrated systems including sensors, communications, compute, analytics, and command-and-control
• Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, and written communication skills
• Experience with systems modelling methodologies and formal requirements capture tools, for example SysML
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Systems Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Defence Technology, or a related discipline
• Experience in border security, maritime surveillance, coastal monitoring, or ISR environments
• Knowledge of radar, EO/IR systems, tracking systems, geospatial analytics, and sensor fusion

Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end requirements architecture for marine and land border surveillance solutions
• Capture, analyse, and structure operational, technical, regulatory, and non-functional requirements
• Translate mission needs into clear, measurable, and testable system requirements
• Decompose high-level requirements into subsystem and component-level specifications
• Maintain requirements traceability across the full engineering lifecycle
• Produce and maintain key artefacts including system requirements specifications, interface requirements, traceability matrices, and verification plans
• Define verification and validation criteria to ensure requirements can be proven through analysis, inspection, simulation, or testing
• Partner closely with Product Management to align system requirements with product roadmap priorities, release planning, and capability evolution
• Support feature prioritisation by assessing technical feasibility, delivery risk, and architectural impact
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, and integration teams to ensure delivered solutions remain aligned with approved requirements
• Support governance activities including requirements reviews, change control, compliance, and customer acceptance

Technologies:

• Support
• PLC
• Security
• Sensor Fusion

More:

We are SRT Marine Systems plc, a respected, established, and ambitious multinational company headquartered in the UK with a global customer base. We lead the next generation of maritime domain awareness technologies, products, and systems that enhance security, safety, environmental protection, and sustainability. We are now expanding into land border surveillance through our Sovereign Territory Surveillance systems, supporting advanced automated security infrastructures for nations worldwide. This is a hybrid role based in our Bristol office and working from home. We offer an excellent salary and package, private health care, and career development opportunities, and we are committed to equal opportunity and an inclusive working environment.

last updated 31 week of 2026