Systems Engineer

  • Hernshead Recruitment Ltd
  • Staines, Middlesex
  • 28/10/2025
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications

Job Description

This is a key position within an engineering department, playing a vital role in validating customer needs, shaping technical solutions, and ensuring seamless project delivery from pre-sales discussions to customer sign-off.

Working closely with our mechanical, hydraulic, electrical, and software engineering teams, you ll ensure that all system-level requirements are understood, met, and validated. You ll also collaborate with sales teams during pre-sale stages to ensure technical capabilities and product specifications are clearly defined.

The role also involves producing customer-facing documentation to demonstrate compliance, safety concepts, and overall system capability.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Manage system-level performance to ensure all projects meet or exceed functional, performance, and regulatory standards.
  • Use advanced tools and techniques such as MATLAB/Simulink, system modelling, optimisation, risk and safety analysis.
  • Support all stages of the project lifecycle from pre-sales proposals through to commissioning and acceptance testing.
  • Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, and software teams to define and validate system requirements.
  • Lead and support commissioning activities both in-house and on customer sites worldwide.

Experience required:

  • 5+ years experience in an engineered-to-order environment.
  • 5+ years hands-on experience with machine hardware and software systems.
  • A proactive, collaborative approach with strong organisational and multitasking skills.
  • Willingness to travel internationally to support customer projects.