Quality Control jobs in United Kingdom

We’re looking for a highly skilled System Design Engineer with Uncrewed Surface Vessel experience to join our team at SYOS, a fast‑growing global robotics and aerospace company, in our production facility based in Fareham, UK. As a Systems Design Engineer, you’ll be a key player in defining the architecture, integrating, and validating autonomous systems with a focus on marine applications.

• Experience working specifically on unmanned marine vehicles (USVs), autonomy systems, and embedded software development tailored for maritime applications.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather, analyse, and document functional and non‑functional system requirements for autonomous vehicles, translating high‑level needs into detailed, verifiable requirements and managing them throughout the project lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain the overall system architecture, defining major subsystems and their interfaces, ensuring seamless integration.
• Plan and coordinate the integration of hardware and software components into unified, reliable systems, design and execute rigorous testing strategies to verify performance, analyze results, identify root causes of anomalies, and troubleshoot issues collaboratively.
• Serve as a central communication hub between engineering teams to facilitate system‑wide coherence and collaboration, supporting continuous improvement by feeding test and performance insights back into system designs.

• A Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Marine Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of experience in systems engineering, preferably in unmanned marine vehicles, robotics, or autonomous systems.
• Strong understanding of systems architecture, requirements management, and system integration, especially for marine autonomy. Experience with JIRA, Confluence, or DOORS is preferred, along with familiarity with hardware and software testing and validation methodologies in challenging environments.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem‑solving abilities.
• Employees will be subject to SC clearance with the MOD.

Job Type: Full‑time, Permanent

Location: Fareham, UK

To be eligible, you must meet the Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including confirming identity, legal right to work in the UK, recent employment history, and criminal record (unspent convictions only).

Unfortunately, we can’t consider applicants who cannot meet these requirements and do not have visa sponsorship for this position.