Senior Systems Engineer

Salary: £40,000 - 70,000 per year

• Degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or similar
• Strong experience delivering complex systems engineering programmes, ideally with a hardware focus
• Proven expertise in requirements management, traceability, and configuration control
• Experience across integration, verification, and validation activities
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the confidence to challenge and influence
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience working in secure or regulated environments
• High proficiency with data, tools, and systems (e.g. Excel, requirements tools)
• Experience designing or supporting secure systems for defence environments (desirable)
• Background in electronics, hardware, or embedded systems (desirable)
• Familiarity with MBSE, Jira, Jama Connect or similar tools (desirable)
• Experience with ILS, reliability engineering, or technical documentation (desirable)
• Knowledge of cyber security, information assurance, or secure architectures (desirable)

• Define and manage system life cycles from concept to retirement, ensuring robust governance and clear design decisions
• Capture, analyse, and manage complex, traceable requirements, ensuring alignment across multidisciplinary teams
• Develop secure, hardware-led architectures with full traceability from requirement to solution
• Lead cross-functional engineering teams (hardware, software, electrical), driving delivery and resolving technical challenges
• Plan and execute system integration, testing, and formal acceptance in line with stringent standards
• Maintain system integrity across internal and external interfaces
• Ensure systems meet defence‑grade security, regulatory, and safety requirements
• Work closely with customers and senior stakeholders, influencing decisions and managing evolving requirements
• Drive best practice across systems engineering processes, tools, and methodologies

• Embedded
• Excel
• Hardware
• JIRA
• Security
• Support

At ESCO Maritime, we are committed to leading the development of secure, hardware‑centric systems in a highly regulated environment where precision, resilience, and innovation are critical. Join us at our Loudwater location, where you will have the opportunity to work on mission‑critical, secure systems that have a real‑world impact. We offer a collaborative, forward‑thinking engineering environment aimed at shaping best practices and driving innovation.

Security Clearance (SC) or eligibility to gain is required to be considered for this vacancy.