Instrumentation Design Engineer

37 hours

Bristol/Hybrid (min. 3 days per week in the office)

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An exciting new opportunity is available within the Test and Experimental Engineering (T&EE) Instrumentation Design team for an enthusiastic and committed Instrumentation Design Engineer.

Instrumentation is critical to any gas turbine engine test to allow measurement data of engine performance and behaviour to be obtained, and its design and integration within a gas turbine engine is highly complex. The UK Instrumentation Design team provides the complete design engineering service for all Defence and Civil Aerospace instrumentation requirements, creating design solutions to install sensors into development gas turbine engines for both ground and flight testing. Instrumentation requirements cover a wide range of measurement techniques and vary in complexity from fast and simple sensor installations to designing complex bespoke solutions such as rotating telemetry units and rakes.

As an Instrumentation Design Engineer your main task will be to design and deliver instrumentation design solutions through the whole lifecycle, from requirements acceptance through to design completion, hardware delivery, build support and post-test learning.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing

• Work within the multi-disciplined Instrumentation Design team to produce innovative fit for purpose mechanical design solutions to meet engine build and test requirements.
• Utilise systems engineering methodologies to produce the best design outcomes, ensuring quality and adherence to Rolls-Royce standards is maintained.
• Manage and mitigate technical and delivery risks throughout the design process. Identify problems and work with the team and external stakeholders to resolve them.
• Interface with manufacturers to ensure that components are suitably defined and can be manufactured.
• Drive the development and introduction of continuous improvement (of tools, processes, methods and guidance material) within the team to improve team capabilities and efficiency.

Who we’re looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

• Candidates are expected to have professional and academic qualifications to degree level or equivalent in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Trained and experienced in the use of CAD tools
• Strong communication skills.
• Thorough, with an eye for detail and an ability to apply logical, analytical, and innovative thinking to a range of technical problems.
• Someone who is positive, self-motivated and driven, able to deliver at pace against fixed timescales.
• Previous experience of working within a design environment, or in a domain related to gas turbine engine technology is beneficial.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines business an individual has to hold a Security Check clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you do not currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets we can only progress applications from individualswho are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.

Closing date: 11/08/25

Any questions please contact: Chris Jefferies