Principal Systems Engineer

QinetiQ

📍 Malvern, England, United Kingdom

Full-time Engineers Posted January 25, 2026

Job Description

The Role


As a Principal Systems Engineer, you will be making a real and immediate contribution to UK national security and defence, developing and delivering operational capabilities in the Cyber, Cryptography and Operational Technology domains.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the opportunity to work closely with customers as a Principal Systems Engineer, making use of strong, business analysis, consultancy, Systems Thinking and requirements engineering skills. You will be able operate throughout a project's lifecycle to engage with complex stakeholder sets, scope and elicit their needs, engineer these into a structured, disciplined model of their requirements and drive subsequent development or acquisition of a solution.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Working flexibly either as part of, or leading, a team or singly, delivering Customer-friend consultancy and business analysis to support internal and external customers in their planning and manageme...