We're building the UK's next generation engineering powerhouse, providing critical technology that strengthens national security and resilience.

We specialise in turning advances in sensing, AI, and communications into operational capability for the edge, where connectivity may be degraded or denied. Our work focuses on accelerating the deployment of technology, improving decision-making for frontline teams, and protecting people and critical assets in demanding environments.

Headquartered in Bristol, Rowden employs around 200 people and operates over 20,000 square feet of engineering and manufacturing facilities. We have a growing international footprint and are one of Europe's fastest-growing engineering businesses.

About the opportunity

This is an open call for Systems Integration & Test talent. We are hiring at several levels, including the discipline lead who will shape and grow it.

Rowden already has an excellent systems engineering team, and we already integrate and test complex edge systems. However, the scale, pace and complexity of what we need to prove is changing and with it our demand for integration and test specialists.

Our systems bring together software, compute, networks, radios, sensors, user devices and increasingly autonomous behaviour. They have to work across denied, degraded, intermittent and low bandwidth networks, where system behaviour shifts as connectivity and available resources shift. Right now, too much of our test infrastructure gets rebuilt for each project. It is often bespoke, manual and hard to reuse, which slows everyone down.

So, we are investing properly in SI&T. The goal is a world-leading integration and test capability for edge information systems, built on reusable test and evaluation infrastructure rather than one-off rigs. This will enable us to integrate earlier, test far more often, reproduce failures in minutes instead of weeks, and explore how systems behave in conditions that are difficult or impossible to create in the real world, using simulation and automation as first-class tools.

Executed well, this will significantly speed up the time it takes to get technology into users' hands – and it will be more effective when it gets there.

Candidates must be eligible for SC clearance.

More information about security clearance is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels