Senior Principal Systems Engineer

Overview

Senior Principal Systems Engineer – full‑time – responsible for ensuring Rolls‑Royce delivers high‑quality, regulatory‑compliant automation systems for naval and marine applications.

Responsibilities

• Review and agree high‑level automation requirements, including their testability.
• Analyse and translate high‑level requirements into a validated design for automation systems.
• Capture applicable design constraints and quality attributes that apply to components.
• Interface between external and internal customers to elicit and validate all stakeholder requirements, including business, technical customers and partners.
• Design and implement automation designs to meet high‑level requirements and design constraints/standards.
• Allocate automation requirements to test vehicles defined in the verification plan.
• Create an appropriate Enterprise Architecture solution that serves both business and technical needs.
• Develop, implement, document and maintain policies, procedures, associated guidelines, tools and training as required.
• Produce documents such as Functional Design Specification (FDS), Control and Monitoring Description (CMD), Test Specifications and Operator/Maintenance Manuals.
• Liaise with other disciplines to understand functional performance capabilities of components and facilitate effective component design.
• Set the Systems Engineering and Verification approach for an Engineering Programme through the Configuration Management Plan.
• Implement PLC code.
• Clarify and define communication interfaces between the Rolls‑Royce Integrated Platform Management System (IPMS) and third‑party systems.

Qualifications

• Degree level qualification in electrical engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
• Membership of a professional body – Chartered Engineer status in an appropriate discipline is expected.
• At least seven years of professional experience in electrical engineering, designing automation systems and managing projects/programmes of increasing complexity.
• Significant domain knowledge and experience of naval or marine automation and control systems.
• Experience across all stages of a project lifecycle and responsibility for delivery of one or more stages.
• Proven ability to apply logical, analytical and innovative thinking to a range of technical problems, making balanced decisions in complex situations with incomplete information.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience of delivering systems that comply with naval and marine standards, specifications and safety standards.
• Membership of a Professional Engineering Body – Chartered Engineer or equivalent.

EEO Statement

Rolls‑Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non‑discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.

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