Systems Engineer

Job Title: Systems Engineer Company: AI Top Talents Ltd Job Category: Machine Learning Roles & Responsibilities: The role Right to work. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role. Work Location: In person Work Location: Bristol, ENG, UK Availability: Full time

Own the system that sits between military sensors, decision\-makers and effectors, and see it work in the hands of the people it was built for. Our Client is a sovereign UK defence AI company in Bristol. They are hiring a Systems Engineer with around two years’ professional experience to take their targeting and planning products from user need to proven capability: define what the system must do, design how its parts fit together, integrate it with the systems already in service, and verify it on exercise with Army units. You will be the engineer who holds the whole system in your head. The military targeting and planning process is a chain of people, data and systems: sensors that find things, staff who decide what to do about them, and effectors that act. Our Client’s products have to fit into that chain alongside the command and control, fire control, intelligence and messaging systems already in an Army headquarters. Your job is to understand the chain end to end, turn what users need into requirements and architecture, make sure the parts integrate, and prove the result works where it will be used. You will not be a requirements administrator or a documentation function. You will write Python most weeks; the systems view is what makes the engineering right. * Around two years of professional engineering experience in a systems, software, integration or test role, in any sector. * Working knowledge of systems engineering practice: requirements, architecture, interface management, integration, verification and validation, and lifecycle management. You can show where you have applied it, not just define it. * Strong Python. You can build a model, a simulation, a test harness or an analysis tool from scratch, test it, and explain your design choices. * Responsible, effective use of AI\-assisted tools. You use tools such as Claude Code, Copilot or Cursor as a matter of course for code, models and documentation, you can show the difference it makes to your output, and you understand where it fails: you review and test what it generates, you own every line and every requirement that ships under your name, and you know what must never leave a secure environment. * A systems mindset: you think about how components connect, where data comes from and goes to, what happens when a link fails, and how to model a domain as objects, relationships and actions. * Working fluency with Git, Linux, Docker and an issue tracker such as Jira, and the discipline to use them properly on a small team. * Clear written and spoken communication with people who are not engineers, including military users, and the confidence to challenge constructively. * A degree in engineering, computer science, physics or a closely related subject, preferably from a UK university, or equivalent demonstrable capability. * Familiarity with military targeting or planning processes (the joint targeting cycle, D3A or F3EAD, the combat estimate), or a willingness to learn them quickly from the people here who have run them. * Experience with model\-based systems engineering (SysML, Capella or similar) or a requirements tool such as DOORS, Jama or Polarion. * Exposure to Cursor\-on\-Target, TAK, SAPIENT or other defence data standards, or to C4I and networked systems more generally. * Exposure to machine learning, computer vision, signal processing or edge deployment. * Any experience of working with, or inside, the UK Armed Forces or MoD. * Existing SC or DV clearance. Practical requirements Key Skills: Machine Learning, Python, Computer Vision Salary: GBP 30000 - 72801.8 per yearly