Principal Systems Engineer - PYRAMID

Synoptix
Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Today
£65,000 – £80,000 pa

Salary

£65,000 – £80,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Flexible
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Lead
Education
Degree
Security Clearance
Required
Posted
4 Jun 2026 (Today)

Benefits

Annual Company Bonus 25 Days holiday Flexible hybrid working arrangements Continuous professional development Access to online Udemy training Electric car scheme Bike to work scheme Private health care

Principal Systems Engineer - PYRAMID

The role

As a Principal Systems Engineer at Synoptix you will be helping guide the scope and direction of the engineering projects you are working on. The initial project is a military aviation program focused on driving industry adoption and compliance with a modular open systems reference architecture for defence avionics and mission systems.

This involves talking to the external stakeholders at a high level within the customer organization and feeding back to the business within engineering management meetings etc. Internally to Synoptix you are seen as a technical authority and mentor to the early career engineers within Synoptix and have the ability to shape their future by passing on knowledge and experience as well as guiding them on customer project delivery.

Day to day tasking can include:

Delivering technical consultant expertise on a variety of customer projects from air to sub-surface

Supporting Systems Engineering activity across the design lifecycle

Development of proposals and statements of work

Engaging with customer representative to identify opportunities, and seeing them through to delivery

Attending Synoptix internal management strategy meetings

Guiding junior engineers in project delivery, where needed

Essential Skills:

Requirements Capture, Management and Analysis

Systems Integration

Verification and Validation

Successful delivery of SE documentation

Knowledge of supporting toolsets (e.g. DOORs, JAMA, JIRA, Enterprise Architect, Cameo Systems Modeller, Rhapsody, MATLAB, Simulink)

Desirable Skills:

PYRAMID / Modular Open Systems Architecture

Experience in developing avionics and mission systems

A technical understating of modular open standards principles

Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)

Benefits:

Annual Company Bonus – Based on company performance

25 Days holiday not including bank holidays with the option to buy/sell up to 5 days

Flexible hybrid working arrangements

Continuous professional development including incentives

Access to online Udemy training facility to support grade specific learning pathways

Electric car scheme

Bike to work scheme

Private health care

About Us:

Synoptix was formed in 2011 to provide engineering solutions across various technical industries. We have evolved from a company established and focussed on Systems Thinking principles into an Engineering company providing solutions and services across three key capabilities: Systems, Cyber & InfoSec and Technology.

What makes us stand out is how we engage in the crossover areas between these disciplines, combining our strengths to provide a truly bespoke, market leading approach. Our engineering competence is bolstered by expertise in commercial, legal, financial and resource, thereby ensuring that we uphold excellence in our product and service offerings.

Please note that due to the nature of our projects we can only accept Sole UK National candidates who will need to be eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance.

By applying to this position, you are confirming that you consent to the retention of your personal data. Your data is held securely on our own premises and under the terms of the Data Protection Act (2018). It will be treated as confidential, and will not be transferred to any third party, or to any other jurisdiction without your consent. We will not hold any data for any longer than is necessary for us to fulfil our obligations and will remove any data at your written request

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