Systems Engineer

As a Systems Engineer, you’ll be operating in a customer facing role while helping to deliver a broad range of complex and challenging technical programmes on mission critical solutions for Roke’s National Security customers.

You will act as a trusted advisor to Roke’s customers, in a position that demands integrity, diplomacy and determination with a wide variety of responsibilities.

Roke is a leading technology & engineering company with clients spanning National Security, Defence and Intelligence; working alongside our customers to solve their complex and unique challenges by bringing the physical and the digital together.

The key responsibilities

• Working as technical lead / design authority of a team to research, design, implement and support a range of products and delivered solutions
• Supporting generation of applications for product investment, following a product roadmap
• Applying your system design skills between specific areas of business, spanning a range of existing and emerging technologies including electronic warfare (EW), RF cyber, applications, middleware and radio bearers
• Technical decision making and problem solving, direction of engineering teams
• Technical bid leadership and senior technical writing
• Integration, Validation & Verification planning as necessary to de-risk delivery
• Planning and executing domestic and overseas system installations and integrations
• Engage with stakeholders to establish consensus on viability of solution options and the associated benefits and risks, decision support.

The key requirements

If you have experience within an adjacent domain, for example communication systems or radars, please still apply as there are opportunities for cross training & development.

Built over a 60-year heritage, Roke offers specialist knowledge in sensors, communications, cyber, and AI and ML. We change the way organisations think and act – through dynamic insights from the analysis of multiple layers of data. We take care of the innovative, technical stuff that keeps everyone safe – that’s our mission, passion, and motivation.

Joining a team united by purpose and ambition, you’ll be at the heart of an exciting growth journey : having doubled in size over the last 4 years, we intend to double our headcount by 2027. At Roke, every individual counts. We push technical boundaries, together. We re-invest in product innovation, and we empower our people to make a difference.

Where you’ll work

You’ll find our Romsey site located within beautiful Hampshire countryside, close to the picturesque New Forest District and not far from a superb stretch of the south coast. This is no corporate concrete jungle; this is a manor house site, with ample parking an on-site gym and a driveway full of daffodils in the spring.

Why you should join us

Operating as one Roke, there is a shared belief that everyone has a responsibility to create an environment that encourages you to bring your whole self to work; in a place where everyone has the time, trust and freedom to succeed.

We are committed to a policy of Equal Opportunity, Diversity and Inclusion. Our working environment is friendly, creative, inclusive and support a diverse work-force and those with additional needs.

The benefits and perks

Clearances

Due to the nature of this role, we require you to be eligible to achieve DV clearance. As a result, you should be a British Citizen and have resided in the for the last 10 years.

The next step

Click apply, submitting an up-to-date CV. We look forward to hearing from you.