Jobs at Rowden

Design, integrate, automate, and execute testing for complex systems combining software, hardware, networks, radios, sensors, and user devices. Build reusable test infrastructure, simulation and emulation environments, instrumentation, and hardware-in-the-loop capabilities. Analyze data, reproduce failures, create regression tests, improve defect lifecycles, and establish integration and test standards across projects. Roles range from hands-on SI&T engineering to discipline leadership.

Own and grow Rowden’s global OEM and technology partner ecosystem for the Dovetail edge software platform. Responsibilities include prospecting, stakeholder engagement, technical demonstrations, negotiating licensing agreements, closing deals, managing renewals and expansions, maintaining pipeline forecasts, and coordinating with Product, Engineering, Solutions Engineering, and Legal. The role requires technical credibility, strong commercial judgment, and frequent international travel. Candidates must be eligible for UK SC clearance.

Own and prioritise the product backlog for mission-critical software applications. Partner with engineering teams, users, and customer stakeholders to define requirements, translate operational needs into user stories, guide sprint planning, and ensure releases deliver user value. Manage the software product lifecycle, maintain agile delivery processes, monitor relevant MOD standards and export regulations, and advocate for coherent product outcomes in demanding operational environments.

Build and own Rowden’s internal developer platform, including CI/CD, infrastructure, development environments, source control, artifacts, secrets, and Kubernetes-based services. Lead the adoption of agentic AI across engineering workflows, creating secure guardrails such as sandboxing, permissioning, audit logging, and observability. Establish technical standards, evaluate tooling, drive adoption through influence, and improve developer productivity across the organization.

Owns the company’s compute hardware estate, including edge, GPU, HPC, storage, and networking systems. Specifies, procures, configures, maintains, benchmarks, and retires hardware; builds reference systems and test infrastructure; aligns hardware with operating systems, drivers, firmware, accelerators, and applications; advises project teams on platform choices; standardizes documentation and configurations; manages suppliers, capacity, faults, warranties, and refresh cycles. The role is hands-on, based primarily onsite in Bristol, and requires eligibility for UK SC clearance.

Own Rowden’s ERP, business application estate, integrations, data, processes, and roadmap. Lead configuration, releases, process simplification, automation, user experience, change adoption, and investment cases. Develop API integrations, workflows, and low-code applications, while identifying and deploying controlled agentic AI solutions across finance, supply chain, manufacturing, projects, and people functions. The role requires strong systems thinking, communication, requirements elicitation, and eligibility for SC clearance.

Designs, implements, and maintains cybersecurity controls for cloud, software, network, and far-edge systems. Responsibilities include threat modeling, risk assessments, vulnerability management, security assurance, accreditation evidence, audit support, incident response, compliance monitoring, and supply-chain security. The engineer advises delivery teams, collaborates with external partners, supports secure system architecture, and represents the company in security forums. The role is hybrid with at least three days weekly onsite in Bristol and occasional customer-site travel.

Own end-to-end talent acquisition for GTM and commercial roles, including Sales, Business Development, Capture, Revenue Operations, and Customer Success. Build proactive pipelines through headhunting, assess candidates, advise hiring managers, and manage multiple searches. Lead commercial hiring across the US and international markets, develop specialist talent networks, provide market and compensation insight, and strengthen candidate and hiring-manager experience.

Build proactive talent pipelines for hard-to-fill engineering, technology, science, and specialist GTM roles. Source and nurture passive candidates, conduct initial screening, maintain ATS records, and provide talent mapping, compensation, competitor, location, and market insights. Partner with Talent Acquisition teams on sourcing priorities and live searches while strengthening Rowden’s employer brand in specialist communities. Candidates must be eligible for UK SC clearance.

Develop, train, evaluate, optimize, and deploy machine learning systems from applied research through production, often on edge or embedded hardware. Responsibilities include model development, data pipelines, distributed GPU workloads, evaluation frameworks, MLOps, monitoring, and performance optimization. The role collaborates with software, hardware, systems, and product teams, while offering opportunities to mentor others and guide technical standards. Hybrid work requires at least three days weekly onsite in Bristol, with eligibility for SC clearance.

Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for discovering customer problems, designing and prototyping technical solutions, integrating and deploying software, and troubleshooting systems across cloud, on-premises, and disconnected edge environments. The role requires close customer collaboration, hands-on deployment ownership, cross-stack engineering, and frequent travel. The engineer also feeds operational insights and technical issues back to product and engineering teams. Candidates must be eligible for UK DV clearance.

Provide governance, risk and compliance support across the organisation: advise engineering and programme teams, develop risk and assurance documentation, support bids/contracts and audits, ensure compliance with UK defence/government security frameworks, track legislation/standards changes, and help deliver security awareness and training.

Lead definition and delivery of Rowden's internal developer platform: architecture, self-service provisioning, CI/CD, IaC, observability, API-first integration, agentic AI runtimes, and secure-by-design practices. Own platform governance, reusable components, automation, and mentoring to improve developer experience and scalability across cross-functional teams.

Build and maintain the internal developer platform: self-service infrastructure, CI/CD, API-first integrations, observability, IaC automation, security-by-design, and tooling to improve developer experience and support cross-functional teams.

Manage mission-critical engineering projects end-to-end: coordinate delivery, stakeholders, budgets, risks, compliance and documentation. Drive timely, on-budget outcomes, define KPIs, ensure quality, and foster cross-functional relationships while supporting change management and strategic discussions.

Lead high-impact, cross-functional operations and strategy projects to scale engineering capabilities. Collate data, build and execute data-driven plans, design repeatable systems, and work with engineering, product, commercial, and delivery teams. Must be eligible for SC clearance.

Join a hybrid Bristol-based engineering team designing, integrating, and delivering robust systems for degraded or denied operational environments. Responsibilities include translating user needs and CONOPS into requirements, applying systems engineering lifecycles, leading integration and architecture tasks, assessing trade-offs and risks, ensuring safety/security compliance, and mentoring junior engineers. SC clearance eligibility required.

Develop and run RF test strategies, perform hands-on lab measurements, automate test setups (typically in Python), characterise RF system performance, support hardware bring-up, analyse results, produce test documentation, and collaborate across RF, hardware, software, and QA teams to ensure repeatable validation for product releases.

Join a defence-focused engineering team to deploy, support and integrate mission-critical C4ISR, autonomous and communications systems. Roles include field service, capability integration, DevSecOps, cloud engineering (AWS) and product ownership. Work directly with end users to configure systems, run field training, gather requirements, feed back to engineering, and prioritise development for constrained, mission-critical environments.

Contribute to safety engineering across the system lifecycle: requirements, architecture, integration, verification and validation. Perform safety analyses (FMEA, HAZOP, BowTie), produce safety documentation and safety cases, support safety strategy, engage stakeholders, and improve safety practices. Senior hires lead strategy, manage work packages, mentor others, and represent safety at programme and customer reviews.