Systems Engineer – Setting To Work Location: Bristol (Hybrid – 3 days on-site) Salary: Up to £55,000

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Systems Engineer to join a growing team focused on delivering advanced land-based defence systems. This role offers a blend of hands-on experimentation, system studies, and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams, making a real impact on current and future operational capabilities.

The successful candidate will coordinate between design and manufacturing teams, developing procedures that ensure equipment can be commissioned efficiently, while identifying ways to simplify and automate processes. You will have the opportunity to support manufacturing builds, explore improvements, and contribute to studies shaping new hardware solutions.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working independently, tackling engineering challenges, and gaining broad professional experience in a supportive and innovative environment. Previous experience in transition to manufacture, software deployment, configuration control, and hardware/software interface is highly advantageous.

Due to the nature of work at our client’s site, these vacancies are only open to British Citizens who hold SC clearance or can obtain it. This is a permanent role.

Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you do not hear from us within seven working days, please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are free to resubmit your CV or details in the future, and we shall assess your suitability then