Systems Engineer

Job Description

System Design & Integration - Submarines
5 Days On-Site - Hybrid working may be agreed.

Derby

Rolls-Royce are looking for a people with a strong background in Systems Engineering & Integration to join the team in Derby.

Our Systems Engineering & Integration engineers provide oversight to ensure our products meet customer, business and regulatory needs. We’re looking for motivated Systems Engineers, passionate about Systems Thinking and Design Configuration to provide enabling support to the Design Teams. The role includes supporting the programme from problem definition through to  the integration of products & systems and establishing fit for purpose verification strategies to ensure adequate solutions. The SE&I engineer is accountable for controlling and managing design data.

This is an integration role where the individual will work to enable all engineering teams through coaching and support to successfully develop robust, verified engineering solutions against robust validated business requirements.

Why Rolls-Royce?

At Rolls-Royce Submarines we support the Royal Navy as the technical authority to the UK Ministry of Defence for naval reactor plants. We are also growing our submarine and nuclear sector capabilities.

Join us and we’ll provide an environment where you can be yourself. An inclusive, digital-first culture that invests in you, gives you a platform for continuous learning and access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career.

What we offer:

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits, including paid overtime, 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’ll be doing:

As a Systems Engineer supporting a large Nuclear Infrastructure Programme, your role will incorporate capability development and technical delivery accountabilities, which are likely to include:

Technical

• Developing and influencing the Systems Engineering, Requirements Management and Verification approach across the programme, identifying and incorporating industry best practice, whilst ensuring integration with the wider RRSL processes and toolsets.
• Embedding and delivering the Systems Engineering approach through coaching and governing of the adherence to methodologies as communicated through the appropriate Management Plans.

SE Deployment & Compliance Management

• Coaching the Engineering Teams in the design of systems using Systems Engineering principals including the use of Robust Design tools & techniques to achieve optimum solutions at product and sub-system level.
• Establish / manage appropriate (Requirements, Design Rationale Evidence, Design Definition and Verification Information) R-E-D-V structure that joins information across all areas involved (Customer, Business, System, Sub-System and Component) for the project.
• Be the SE focal point for a specific project, delivering technical coaching and oversight to engineers working with requirements to ensure consistency and quality, ensuring sufficient rigor it put into requirements validation and verification, driving the right behaviours within the project.
• Driving the development of product verification strategies, structured verification plans and Product Development Plans, defining and delivering robust certification and qualification strategies and ensuring R-E-D-V health data reports from Validation and Verification activities are used to drive the engineering programme schedule and to remove technical risk.

Configuration, Data & Controls

• Apply understanding of Facility Design and the wider Nuclear product operation, product systems, sub-systems and interactions. Integrate and manage interfaces.
• Planning and management of product change, design technical approval and technical investigations.
• Manage the creation of substantiation evidence, clearance/acceptance documentation that meets the project demands.
• Define configuration hardware requirements to satisfy verification activities.

People

• Reporting clearly and succinctly on System progress and data metrics (requirements, assumptions, risk).
• Working with and co-ordinating extended (i.e. not necessarily co-located) multi-disciplinary teams.

There is a team of Systems Engineers supporting in all areas and therefore the above accountabilities may be adapted depending on candidate knowledge and experience.

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. 

The successful candidate will have:

• A bachelor's degree or master’s in engineering or equivalent experience
• Demonstrable experience in eliciting and managing requirements in complex engineering programmes.
• Strong technical knowledge in design methodologies and concept down-selection.
• Familiarity of ISO 15288 and its application to engineering complex problems.
• Good working knowledge of utilising IBM Rational DOORs for requirements management.
• Experience of leading strategic initiatives, or evidence of an aptitude towards strategic thinking.
• Good inter-personal and presentation skills. Ability to communicate with and influence all levels and across disciplines.

Non-essential, but desirable experience

• Systems Engineering applied in the Nuclear Industry, Infrastructure or other highly regulated environments.
• Experience with using Model-Based System Engineering Tools and Methods, preferably in Cameo Systems Modeller.
• Technical management in projects requiring cross-disciplinary collaboration.
• Chartered Engineer and/or membership of a relevant professional body.

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

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

To work for Rolls-Royce Submarines you need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. 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, you must hold a UK nationality. Any dual nationals will require additional scrutiny and background checks prior to commencing work with RRSL.

Job Category

Validation and Verification

Posting Date

12 Nov 2025; 00:11

Posting End Date

29 Nov 2025