Principal Systems Engineer

Company: Collins Aerospace
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Senior Systems Integration & Verification Engineer

Responsibilities

In this role, you will lead system integration and verification activity for advanced propulsion systems, ensuring that requirements are fully tested, evidence is captured, and systems are demonstrated to meet the required technical and regulatory standards. You will work closely with hardware, firmware, software, systems engineering, project teams, suppliers and key stakeholders, helping bring together complex technologies into a fully integrated, verified and compliant system.

  • System integration planning: Review system architectures and define the overall integration strategy, creating and owning the full integration plan. Define test requirements, estimate integration activities, support project planning and help ensure that effort, schedule and technical dependencies are clearly understood.
  • Test setup and equipment: Define the instrumentation required for system-level testing and own the test equipment and instrumentation bill of materials. Specify supporting test equipment such as harnesses, junction boxes, connectors and other ancillary equipment. Work with internal teams and external suppliers to design, source or procure the equipment needed to support successful testing.
  • Integration execution: Lead, supervise or directly execute system integration activities, working alongside hardware, firmware and software teams. Capture test data, produce integration reports, manage system integration problem reports and support the resolution of complex technical issues.
  • Verification planning and execution: Work with the Systems Lead Engineer to define how system requirements will be verified. Populate and maintain verification data within requirements tools such as IBM DOORS and CAMEO, define and maintain the verification plan, write test procedures and lead test readiness reviews. Execute dry runs and formal verification testing, analyse results, produce reports and ensure that verification evidence is accurate, complete and traceable.
  • Verification evidence and compliance: Review verification evidence against requirements and agreed means of compliance, ensuring evidence is correctly traced back to the requirements database. Support the consolidation of system declaration of performance documentation.
  • Continuous improvement: Ensure work is completed in line with company engineering processes, while also identifying opportunities to improve tools, processes and ways of working. Drive positive change across the integration and verification environment.

Qualifications

  • A bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent experience.
  • Strong experience in systems integration and verification, ideally within motor drive systems.
  • Experience working in aerospace or another highly regulated engineering environment.
  • Solid understanding of systems engineering processes.
  • Experience working in a configuration-controlled environment, including problem reports and change requests.
  • Experience with requirements definition and requirements management, ideally using IBM DOORS.
  • Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering tools such as CAMEO.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work through complex technical issues.
  • Confidence working autonomously with limited oversight.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to work with internal teams, external suppliers and stakeholders.
  • Practical project management capability, including the ability to manage smaller projects, work packages or technical processes.
  • Experience using system modelling to support early integration.
  • Knowledge of ARP4754A and ARP4761.
  • Knowledge of DO-160 and DO-254.
  • Basic knowledge of a modern high-level programming language.
  • Continuous improvement mindset.
  • Curiosity, adaptability and enthusiasm to become multi-skilled across different engineering areas.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary.
  • Flexible working, hybrid working and a family friendly approach.
  • Outstanding state-of-the-art facilities and laboratories centrally located and easily accessible.
  • Life insurance.
  • Excellent corporate pension plan with a 2:1 matched contribution up to 10%.
  • Private Health Insurance.
  • 25 days annual leave plus ability to buy/sell up to 5 days.
  • Career development.
  • Half day working on Fridays.

Working Arrangement

This role requires regular on-site working, with a minimum of four days per week on site due to the hands‑on nature of the manufacturing, build, test, and team leadership activities involved.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Posted: July 14th, 2026