Jobs at Rowden

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lead and operate Rowden's multi-site workplace estate, managing facilities, reception and operations teams, health and safety systems, and physical security. Define requirements and project-manage new builds and expansions, coordinate with IT and cross-functional stakeholders, and ensure sites are safe, compliant, and fit for purpose to support the companys growth.

Join Rowden's Infrastructure/DevOps team to build and manage cloud and on-prem platforms, automate infrastructure with IaC, deploy versioned containers to orchestration services, support networks/security/databases, partner with developers on CI/CD and testing, and collect metrics for performance tuning and fault finding. SC clearance eligibility required.

Develop and test Android apps, plugins and core components of an Android-based OS (kernel modules, drivers, system libraries). Debug concurrency and stability issues, author tests (unit/integration/performance), use Git and Agile practices, and apply secure software development to deliver resilient mobile and edge solutions for national security customers.

Build a speculative talent pipeline for RF engineers to support communications, sensing, DSP, SDR, FPGA, and RF hardware development. Work in multidisciplinary teams to design, prototype, simulate, validate, and automate testing of RF subsystems for defence and resilience applications, while meeting security clearance eligibility requirements.

Lead capture and engagement for large government and industry programmes: develop capture strategies for £5m+ opportunities, build consortiums and partner relationships, author bids with pre-sales and delivery teams, translate technical strengths into compelling propositions, and maintain customer engagement through delivery to secure follow-on work.

Lead design and integration of complex multidisciplinary systems (software, hardware, RF, networks) for defence and edge environments. Define architectures, interfaces and integration plans, de-risk delivery using modelling and testing, mentor engineers, and work with users and partners to ensure operational effectiveness across the systems engineering lifecycle.