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Lead Systems Engineer

📍 Location
Teddington
⏰ Job Type
Full Time
📅 Posted
June 27, 2026

About the Role

About the Role

We’re looking for a Principal Systems Engineer to join our Materials and Mechanical Metrology department here at NPL! You’ll have the exciting opportunity to work on a range of our instrumentation and metrology projects and provide the technical expertise that informs the strategy that helps shape our site infrastructure. As our Principal Systems Engineer, you’ll have strong experience and a full understanding of Systems Engineering, the V-Model and associated processes/lifecycles. In previous roles, you would have been involved in all stages of the instrument development lifecycle, from early concept development through to delivery and reporting. In this role, you’ll be responsible for the requirements definition & management, overall system architecture, assembly, integration, validation & verification, installation, commissioning, and delivery of scientific instrumentation. You’ll identify that the highest quality technical solutions are app...

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