Jobs at Rowden

Lead commercial contracting and legal operations for defence, critical national infrastructure, and technology businesses. Responsibilities include negotiating government and public-sector contracts, technology and software commercialization agreements, supplier and teaming arrangements, and advising on UK procurement law. The role will implement CLM processes, templates, playbooks, automation, and enterprise AI tools while partnering with commercial, product, engineering, and finance teams. It also supports regulatory, export-control, security, corporate, and other legal matters.

Lead and develop a machine learning engineering team while remaining approximately 70% hands-on. Build, train, evaluate, and deploy ML systems, establish engineering standards and processes, mentor engineers, support hiring and resource planning, and collaborate with technical and delivery leads. The role covers applied R&D, deep learning, LLMs, MLOps, edge deployment, and assurance for demanding government and national-security applications.

Lead hands-on machine learning engineering across applied R&D, large-model training, LLMs, agentic systems, data pipelines, and edge deployment. Own technically demanding projects, make architecture decisions, train and optimize models, and mature systems for production or deployment. Represent the company with customers and partners, contribute to bids, mentor engineers, and establish engineering standards. The role focuses on trusted AI systems for demanding environments and requires regular on-site work in Bristol, occasional customer travel, and international exercises.

Supports day-to-day finance operations, including accounts payable and receivable, invoice and expense processing, bank reconciliations, month-end activities, reporting, VAT and audit preparation. Maintains accurate financial records, supports payroll and fixed assets, manages finance correspondence, and contributes to process improvement, automation, and ERP projects using SAP systems and Excel.

Executive Assistant supporting the Founder and CEO through inbox and calendar management, complex domestic and international travel, meeting preparation, visitor experiences, event planning, correspondence, expense oversight, and strategic initiative coordination. The role requires high discretion, excellent communication, strong organization, proactive judgment, adaptability, and availability during evenings and weekends. This is a fully onsite position in Bristol with occasional UK and international travel and eligibility for SC clearance.

Lead government affairs and policy engagement for Rowden, advising senior leadership on political, regulatory, procurement, export-control, and industrial-policy developments. Build relationships with UK and international government stakeholders, parliamentarians, trade bodies, and diplomatic networks. Develop engagement strategies, policy papers, parliamentary submissions, and executive briefings. Assess international markets, procurement pathways, regulatory barriers, and market-access opportunities while embedding with commercial, engineering, product, and delivery teams.

Supports product design, development, validation, verification, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement from prototype through production. Collaborates with R&D, design, and manufacturing teams to improve product performance, quality, reliability, compliance, and manufacturability. Creates technical and production documentation, conducts testing and risk assessments, supports failure mode analysis, identifies cost reductions, and participates in prototype and production builds using the V-Model methodology.

Develop positioning, messaging, and go-to-market materials for complex sensing, networking, and device management products. Translate technical capabilities into compelling value propositions for defence, national security, critical infrastructure, and emergency services markets. Conduct market and competitor analysis, create technical content, collaborate with product, sales, engineering, and design teams, and support demos, events, print materials, and digital channels.

Create visual communications for product marketing, translating complex technical capabilities into clear presentations, collateral, diagrams, campaigns, launch materials, and event assets. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing teams, develop scalable visual systems and templates, maintain brand consistency, and manage multiple briefs across products and markets. The role requires strong information and presentation design skills, technical curiosity, and the ability to communicate complex ideas effectively across digital and print formats.

Lead and grow Rowden’s software engineering function, setting standards for architecture, development, testing, CI/CD, secure development, and assurance. Provide technical leadership on complex systems spanning software, hardware, AI, embedded platforms, and constrained networks. Build team capability, recruit and mentor engineers, manage resourcing and delivery risk, and establish a scalable SDLC and software assurance roadmap for mission-critical products.

Support technical sales for RF deception, sensing, and communications products. Responsibilities include customer requirements analysis, technical briefings, proposals, demonstrations, field trials, system setup, configuration, troubleshooting, partner integration, market monitoring, and translating operational feedback into product and engineering requirements. The role serves defence and national security customers, requires regular international travel, and involves supporting EW and CEMA capabilities in contested environments.

Leads delivery and governance of complex, multi-year systems integration projects, managing scope, budgets, milestones, risks, dependencies, vendors, and senior stakeholders. The role translates outcomes into delivery plans, coordinates multidisciplinary technical teams, maintains governance and reporting, and drives decisions and mitigation strategies. It requires significant project management experience in technology, systems integration, defence, critical national infrastructure, or similar complex environments, plus eligibility for UK SC clearance and frequent UK and overseas travel.

Graduate engineers join a rotational programme gaining exposure to software, machine learning, systems, safety, radio frequency, and infrastructure engineering. Responsibilities include integrating sensor and data feeds, designing systems for degraded communications, deploying edge machine learning models, developing deployable sensing and communications products, and supporting scalable edge-device deployment. Graduates work on defence, emergency services, and national security systems with increasing ownership and mentorship.

Owns end-to-end UX design for complex, high-stakes digital products, from problem framing and user research through implementation. Creates flows, wireframes, and prototypes; conducts interviews, surveys, and usability testing; collaborates with front-end engineers; applies WCAG accessibility standards; develops scalable design patterns; and communicates design rationale and trade-offs to technical teams, product stakeholders, and senior leadership.

Lead strategic customer relationships across defence and technical-sector accounts. Build trust with stakeholders from frontline users to senior leaders, drive adoption and measurable value, manage customer success plans, identify risks, improve satisfaction, and support retention and account expansion. Partner closely with sales, delivery, engineering, and business-line teams. The role is based in Bristol with hybrid working, frequent UK travel, overseas travel, and eligibility for SC clearance required.

Build and manage cloud, virtualized, and on-premise infrastructure; automate systems using Infrastructure as Code; deploy containerized services; improve developer workflows, testing, and releases; and support secure, reliable systems. The role also involves networking, databases, observability, performance tuning, fault finding, and collaboration across software and infrastructure teams in defense, security, and emergency-sector environments.

Build and manage cloud, virtualized, and on-premises infrastructure; automate reliable systems using Infrastructure as Code and configuration management; deploy containerized applications; support testing and release processes; and improve network, security, database, observability, performance, and fault-finding capabilities. The role partners with development teams to deliver secure information systems and machine learning services for defense, security, and emergency-sector environments.

Support the design and deployment of end-to-end AI solutions, including data pipelines, model training, agentic AI systems, MLOps, monitoring, and system integration. Contribute to architecture documentation, technical proposals, tooling assessments, risk analysis, and customer engagements while developing solution architecture expertise under senior mentorship. The role requires AI or ML engineering experience, clear communication, awareness of AI security, and eligibility for UK SC clearance.

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.