Top Design Jobs in Bristol

Leads a hardware design team developing power, timing, and control circuits for AI compute hardware. Responsibilities include line management, coaching, work allocation, delivery coordination, technical reviews, design documentation, issue resolution, corrective actions, and production transition. The role collaborates with systems, firmware, PCB layout, mechanical, thermal, and programme teams while ensuring circuit designs meet verification and manufacturing requirements.

Twelve-week UX design internship creating sketches, wireframes, interface designs, usability research insights, and reusable design-library components for technical AI software. The intern will collaborate with engineers, participate in Agile sprints and design reviews, and develop user-centred design skills with support from experienced designers. Candidates should be studying a relevant degree, have basic design-tool experience, demonstrate interest in UX/UI, and provide a portfolio. No previous industry experience is required.

Manage delivery of secondary steelwork design deliverables for a major nuclear project. Responsibilities include scheduling, risk management, replication planning, stakeholder coordination, technical presentations, interface management, commercial awareness, and competency oversight. The role requires structural steelwork design experience, operational delivery capability, knowledge of relevant standards and CDM 2015, with nuclear-sector and PWR experience desirable.

Supports project managers by leading multidisciplinary design delivery, coordinating internal and external teams, and ensuring client scope, budget, resources, and timelines are met. Facilitates meetings and workshops, manages design and project risks, integrates procurement, planning, environmental, construction, and operations activities, and promotes collaborative design decisions. The role requires stakeholder engagement, BIM and Autodesk knowledge, technical reporting, and the ability to manage complex engineering projects and changing priorities.

Design HV substations and associated infrastructure from concept through energisation. Responsibilities include producing primary plant layouts, developing equipment specifications, contributing engineering design input, serving as an Owner’s Engineer, supporting renewable energy projects, and providing client services across the UK, Ireland, and overseas. The role also involves technical reporting, design reviews, construction activity witnessing, and collaboration across multidisciplinary projects.

Support certification and airworthiness approval of tactical uncrewed aircraft systems for civil and military regulators. Responsibilities include defining certification bases, developing compliance matrices, producing analyses and test evidence, supporting SORA safety cases, preparing regulatory submissions, maintaining certification records, assessing design changes, and helping establish design organisation approval procedures. The role requires aerospace engineering knowledge, hands-on certification experience, strong technical writing, and eligibility for UK SC security clearance.

Lead system design and integration for mature gas turbine programs, including requirements definition, product and subsystem design, interface management, technical analysis, verification, and problem resolution. Own root-cause investigations, quality concerns, safety reports, design changes, technical approvals, and investigations across the product lifecycle. Collaborate with chief engineers, partner companies, and working groups while applying multidisciplinary engineering knowledge and product certification frameworks.

Provides organisational design and development expertise to leaders and HR partners. Responsibilities include organisational diagnostics, role and structure design, capability building, workforce planning, culture and performance initiatives, change support, data analysis, stakeholder consultation, and governance. The role delivers evidence-based solutions that improve organisational effectiveness, leadership capability, employee experience, resilience, and performance across a complex, evolving business.

Leads multidisciplinary design teams delivering complex hyperscale, colocation, and enterprise data centre projects across Europe. Oversees projects from site due diligence and campus planning through detailed design and construction documentation, ensuring technical quality, regulatory compliance, risk mitigation, and timely delivery. The role is client-facing, requiring stakeholder presentations, commercial and contractual coordination, permitting collaboration, and regular travel across UK&I and European offices.

Leads HV substation design across concept, FEED, detailed design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and assurance phases. Produces plant layouts, cable route studies, equipment and tender specifications, evaluates suppliers, reviews technical designs, supports audits and factory acceptance testing, and provides commissioning and fault-resolution support. The role also manages client relationships, contributes to major transmission infrastructure projects, mentors junior engineers, and may manage multidisciplinary project budgets, schedules, and quality.

Leads end-to-end high-voltage substation design from grid connection studies and concept development through FEED, detailed design, construction review, and energisation. The role manages technical delivery, client and multidisciplinary coordination, quality assurance, safety in design, resourcing, proposals, commercial monitoring, and scope growth. It also requires strong knowledge of AC HV equipment, AIS, GIS, National Grid standards, and mentoring junior engineers.

Leads electrical and multidisciplinary design management across infrastructure and real estate projects. Responsibilities include managing consultants and contractors, overseeing technical assurance, reviewing constructability, coordinating design interfaces, ensuring regulatory and lifecycle requirements, and delivering safe, sustainable, buildable engineering solutions. The role also involves client and stakeholder liaison, risk and scope management, consultant performance oversight, and integration across civil, structural, geotechnical, mechanical, and electrical disciplines.

Lead multidisciplinary engineering design management across infrastructure and real estate projects from concept through delivery. Manage consultants, contractors, design interfaces, technical assurance, constructability, compliance, and stakeholder coordination. Drive practical, sustainable solutions while integrating mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, and geotechnical disciplines. Ensure designs meet client, operational, regulatory, safety, maintainability, and reliability requirements throughout the asset lifecycle.

Designs and develops analogue and digital electronic hardware for manufacturing test, product diagnosis, and continuous improvement. Responsibilities include creating bespoke PCBs, signal-conditioning circuits, interface cards, and test hardware; performing component-level fault diagnosis; supporting functional test, flying probe, and NPI activities; documenting designs; investigating manufacturing issues; and improving product quality, testability, and production efficiency.

Leads technical and strategic security engineering for new-build and fit-out projects across RIBA stages. Responsibilities include risk assessments, mitigation strategies, operational requirements, security master planning, physical security design, electronic security systems design, and counter-terrorism guidance covering hostile vehicle mitigation, bomb blast, and ballistics. The role also requires business development, security consultancy expertise, and collaboration with project specialists.

Manages design management teams and projects across the UK and internationally. Responsibilities include coordinating design processes, budgets, programmes, approvals, deliverables, quality, workshops, and design coordination. Oversees sub-consultant contracts, invoicing, financial reporting, and responsibility matrices. Supports business planning, business development, mentoring, performance reviews, and quality assurance while ensuring compliance with contractual obligations and company procedures.

Leads Rolls-Royce’s Digital Design Transformation programme, guiding cross-functional teams, managing delivery and funding, engaging stakeholders, and advancing engineering design capabilities. The role drives initiatives involving AI/ML, design software, systems engineering, modelling and simulation, and statistical analysis. It also owns communications, engagement, and continuous-improvement plans to deliver measurable business benefits and accelerate time to market.

Supports design management for high-end residential projects from pre-construction through handover. Coordinates consultants, subcontractors, technical submissions, shop drawings, RFIs, design information, samples, mock-ups, meetings, reports, budgets, programmes, and quality standards. Ensures compliance with planning, listed building, building, and fire regulations while helping resolve site coordination issues and maintain design quality.

Lead electrical design and engineering for data centre projects across EMEA, from concept through construction support and closeout. Manage design teams, deliverables, schedules, quality, peer reviews, value engineering, and technical decisions. Provide hands-on expertise in power distribution, transformers, UPS systems, and standby generation while mentoring engineers and coordinating multidisciplinary stakeholders. Serve as a customer-facing technical lead, supporting client and contractor meetings, site visits, installation, and commissioning matters.

Lead and mentor 4–8 Product Designers across key product domains. Balance people management, hiring, resourcing, hands-on product design, and strategic delivery. Partner with product and engineering leaders to define roadmaps, OKRs, and cohesive app experiences. Deliver end-to-end design work using research, prototyping, testing, and handoff, while exploring AI-enhanced design and development workflows.

Lead product design for core platform, native mobile experiences, and the design system. Manage approximately eight distributed product designers across the US and India, providing coaching, hiring, performance management, critiques, and quality oversight. Partner with Product and Engineering to improve UX/UI, interaction design, visual craft, information architecture, and cross-platform consistency. Drive design system adoption and responsible AI-assisted workflows while supporting high-velocity product delivery.

Leads the organisation’s design and creative direction across brand, publications, campaigns, events, digital, social, and video. Owns brand standards and governance, directs high-impact creative initiatives, develops concepts and narratives, and manages an in-house multidisciplinary design and video team. The role also oversees creative workflows, prioritisation, stakeholder relationships, and continuous improvement of creative effectiveness and consistency.

Designs, integrates, builds, commissions, and tests high-pressure fluid mechanical laboratory test benches for aerospace applications. Responsibilities include supplier coordination, test automation, instrumentation calibration, data logging, system analysis, cross-functional troubleshooting, asset obsolescence management, and sub-domain strategy development. The role requires hands-on experience with hydraulics, pneumatics, high-flow pumps, hydro-mechanical instrumentation, test rig configuration, and commissioning procedures.

Designs and supports high-voltage substation and related transmission infrastructure projects across the UK and Ireland. Responsibilities include producing primary plant layouts, developing equipment specifications, contributing engineering design input, supporting Owners’ Engineer assignments, and providing HV design input for renewable energy projects. The role also involves technical report writing, multi-project collaboration, design reviews, and occasional construction site activities, with mentorship from experienced engineers.

Supports the Creative team by creating and adapting digital assets for campaigns, promotions, and product stories across digital and retail channels. Responsibilities include design research, artwork preparation, layout development, presentations, asset library maintenance, quality checks, project tracking, and collaboration with Creative and Marketing teams. The placement is designed for a second-year university student seeking practical experience and career development in visual design and luxury fashion.