Principal Vehicle Systems Engineer

Overview

As Principal Vehicle Systems Engineer you will provide technical leadership across complex Protected Mobility and defence programmes. You’ll guide systems engineering from concept through production, collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders. The role focuses on architecture, requirements, design solutions, and rigorous verification to deliver high-quality vehicle programmes. This is a high-impact position that shapes critical defence systems and capabilities in a fast-moving project environment. You’ll work with customers, suppliers and internal teams to drive system-level outcomes and ensure successful acceptance.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and systems engineering leadership across vehicle programmes
• Develop and manage system and subsystem requirements
• Support system architecture, specifications and design solutions
• Collaborate with engineering teams, customers, suppliers and subcontractors
• Lead design, integration, test and acceptance activities
• Support design reviews and resolve complex engineering issues
• Produce high-quality technical documentation and brief senior stakeholders

Key requirements

• Engineering degree or equivalent qualification
• Strong systems engineering experience
• Experience leading complex engineering development programmes
• Requirements management experience including DOORS
• System design and analysis using SysML
• Experience across the full systems engineering lifecycle
• Strong supplier/subcontractor management skills
• Excellent communication, influencing and customer-facing skills
• Willingness to travel within the UK and potentially overseas
• Eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC)
• Defence, protected mobility, military vehicles or automotive engineering experience is advantageous

• strong communication
• influencing
• customer-facing
• requirements management (DOORS)
• SysML
• systems engineering lifecycle

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