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# Principal Systems Engineer

- **Company:** Kirintec Limited
- **Location:** Ross-on-Wye, UK
- **Salary:** £70,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Systems Engineering, Software Debugging, Firmware, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Subsystems, Strategies of Testing
- **Published:** August 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=53c1044d793734bc

## About the Role

You will be able to;

· Demonstrate experience in systems engineering and product development within a complex engineering environment.

· Prove experience of the full engineering lifecycle, including formal methodologies such as the V-model and Agile development.

· Drive forward with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

· Prove your ability to test, debug and diagnose systems across hardware, software and FPGA firmware domains.

· Be confident working with multidisciplinary engineering teams.

· Demonstrable ability to acquire new technical skills and apply them effectively., Please be aware that many roles at Kirintec Ltd are subject to security and vetting restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have a minimum of 5-year continuous residency in the UK, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

## Description

R&D is responsible for researching, developing and supporting the technology on the company's technology roadmap. We work closely with Technical Support and Sales to maintain that roadmap, and to understand customer requirements and we work closely with Operations to hand technology over to production.

Duties will include;

· Production of requirements specifications in-line with customer and product needs.

· Implementation of system designs to meet requirements.

· Overseeing internal or external resources implementing sub-system designs.

· Directly implementing sub-system designs to suit experience.

· Production and execution of test strategies, test plans and test specifications to

· verify and validate designs.

· Design/prototype evaluation, fault finding, diagnosis and resolution.

· Customer engagement to elicit requirements, present designs for approval and

· provide post-delivery customer support.

· Co-ordinating in-house/external production.

· Supplier liaison.

· Technical support to customers and other departments within the company


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