Top Engineering Jobs in Bristol

Leads and scales a data engineering team of 8+ engineers, owning data strategy, platform modernization, architecture, reliability, and engineering standards. Partners with product, analytics, and commercial teams to deliver scalable, secure, high-quality data solutions. Responsibilities include coaching, mentoring, roadmap ownership, stakeholder management, performance measurement, and representing data engineering with senior leadership. The role requires technical credibility across cloud platforms, data warehouses, orchestration, modeling, pipelines, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD.

Provide technical direction for GitLab Dedicated, a managed single-tenant SaaS platform. Lead architecture and transformation across resilience, failover, tenant orchestration, change management, automation, and platform integrations. Identify systemic reliability and scalability risks, establish reusable platform patterns, strengthen service ownership, and guide cross-team technical decisions. Mentor senior engineers and advance engineering excellence across the organization.

Develop internal tooling and technical processes for building, testing, integrating, and releasing machine learning software components. Guide developers on build practices and dependency management, support reproducible builds in secure sandboxed environments, collaborate with QA and engineering teams to resolve integration issues, and contribute fixes to the ML software stack.

Coordinate engineering change requests, orders, notices, and deviations across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain teams. Track actions, support impact assessments and change reviews, maintain accurate product configurations and records, and ensure changes are properly documented, approved, and implemented. The role also supports PLM processes, BOMs, revision control, product data governance, and change control boards for complex hardware products.

Manages engineering teams of up to 10 people, guiding technical and product vision, talent development, performance, delivery, and operational excellence. Partners with clients, product managers, and client success teams to deliver platform solutions and drive technical roadmaps. Requires engineering management experience, strong communication, Agile and lean development knowledge, and familiarity with modern technologies including Kafka. The role involves 4–6 business trips annually and hybrid office work three days per week.

Partners with Engineering Capability leaders on planning, forecasting, performance management, investment decisions, and strategic initiatives. Leads governance, risk and opportunity management, business cases, capital investment, cost-rate changes, productivity improvements, and financial process enhancements. Serves as Finance Business Partner for Test & Experimental Engineering, managing a £200m+ annual spend portfolio and driving cross-functional initiatives through implementation and benefit realization.

Leads the technical development and growth of AECOM’s Ground Engineering team. Oversees geotechnical data, analysis, design verification, project delivery, client advisory, schedules, budgets, and quality. Builds client and industry relationships, supports business development, leads multidisciplinary project delivery, and mentors junior engineers. The role requires chartered status, strong UK ground-condition knowledge, geotechnical design expertise, stakeholder management, and leadership capability.

Technical Director leading coastal and water engineering projects across marine, river, and infrastructure environments. Responsibilities include technical delivery, client advisory, team leadership, bid development, commercial oversight, project management, quality assurance, and integration of sustainable and emerging solutions. The role requires expertise in coastal processes, scour assessment, hydraulic design, asset management, and major infrastructure projects, along with chartered engineering status and strong commercial and leadership experience.

Leads multidisciplinary engineering teams across the full project lifecycle, from project definition and FEED through detailed design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover. Ensures quality, safety, regulatory compliance, cost, and schedule performance while coordinating technical decisions, requirements capture, design governance, stakeholders, and project delivery under NEC commercial arrangements.

Own ASIC verification from planning through sign-off by translating requirements into test strategies, building reusable testbenches and verification infrastructure, driving coverage and regression closure, debugging hardware and software issues, and improving automation and CI workflows. Collaborate with architecture, RTL design, implementation, software, and trading teams to deliver thoroughly validated designs and right-first-time silicon.

Provides maintenance, servicing, and reactive breakdown support for air-conditioning and refrigeration equipment, including split systems, VRF/VRV systems, CRAC units, controls, and medium-to-large chillers. Performs scheduled engineering tasks, participates in out-of-hours and standby rotations, and ensures work meets client, quality, safety, and operational standards. Requires recognized refrigeration and air-conditioning training, relevant refrigerant-handling certification, and practical experience with HVAC systems and major manufacturers.

Lead and scale the engineering organization for a regulated digital-asset custody platform. Own hiring, org design, engineering operations (on-call, incidents, release hygiene), delivery against roadmaps, audit and regulator readiness (SOC 2, SAMA, ISO 27001), and cross-functional alignment. Amplify an existing small, specialized team to meet regulatory and institutional requirements while preserving culture and retention.

Build the platform, tooling, workflows, guardrails, and metrics needed for safe, measurable agentic software development. Integrate autonomous coding agents with Linear, GitHub, CI, testing, and code review processes. Improve monorepo readiness, create isolated execution environments, establish benchmarks and adoption metrics, and partner cross-functionally with Platform, Security, AI, Architecture, and engineering teams.

Supervise engineering and grounds teams responsible for hotel and club property maintenance. Manage staffing, training, preventative maintenance, work requests, budgets, inventory, purchasing, safety compliance, energy conservation, utility systems, and equipment inspections. Respond to guest and department needs, resolve maintenance issues, maintain fire and life-safety systems, and ensure facilities, guest rooms, and equipment remain safe, functional, and well maintained.

Owns and prioritizes the product backlog for secure hardware engineering environments. Defines requirements, acceptance criteria, and feature priorities; validates releases; gathers user feedback; and leads application evolution, migration, consolidation, and legacy-tool retirement. Acts as technical authority and architect while coordinating hardware engineers, product owners, architects, delivery teams, and leadership. The role requires practical hardware engineering experience and knowledge of engineering development environments, with responsibility for aligning tools to broader Thales roadmaps.

Develop and automate software tests for PlayStation development tools, including regression, exploratory, performance, and coverage testing. Create test strategies, investigate bugs, build testing tools, report results, and collaborate with global teams on quality infrastructure. The role also involves mentoring peers, improving engineering practices, and safely applying AI-assisted coding tools.

Serve as a pre-sales Solutions Engineer for Atlassian’s Emerging Markets team, focusing on enterprise customers in Africa. Partner with sales teams and channel partners to discover business and technical needs, map challenges to Atlassian solutions, identify expansion opportunities, and lead customized value-based demonstrations. Build customer and sales partnerships, guide technical buying decisions, document product feedback and competitive intelligence, and continuously develop product and sales-process expertise.

Leads strategic communications and media engagement for engineering and science activities, developing multi-channel campaigns and content to enhance the university’s global reputation. Builds relationships with media, academics, policymakers, funders, and external partners; identifies news opportunities; supports media training and crisis communications; evaluates audience and campaign performance; manages communications materials, suppliers, and potentially staff; and contributes to press office, leadership, and on-call activities.

Administer and support large-scale cloud and on-premises monitoring deployments across multiple providers. Maintain performance, availability, capacity, permissions, upgrades, and audit compliance. Integrate applications and infrastructure with enterprise monitoring instrumentation, document operational processes, collaborate with technical teams, and mentor colleagues on observability practices. The role requires expertise in monitoring platforms, application performance monitoring, synthetics, end-user experience, infrastructure monitoring, distributed tracing, cloud services, scripting, SQL, and multiple operating systems.

Lead the Algorithms engineering team responsible for RoomPriceGenie’s pricing, forecasting, and data pipeline systems. Own delivery, reliability, technical quality, hiring, performance management, and team development. Partner with Product to shape priorities, validate outcomes through backtesting and quality metrics, and drive engineering improvements across the organization. Provide architectural guidance, design and code reviews, and occasional hands-on support while building a high-performing, accountable team.

Designs, implements, and refines threat detection and response use cases aligned with MITRE ATT&CK and the Cyber Kill Chain. Collaborates with threat intelligence, incident response, forensics, and security operations teams; analyzes attack patterns; participates in red-team and penetration-testing exercises; develops security metrics and management reports; and leads junior analysts as needed. The role requires expertise in security monitoring, incident response, forensics, network and host controls, cloud security, and multiple forensic and SIEM tools.

Leads a 25+ person organization of data scientists, machine learning engineers, and analytics engineers across Identity and Financial Crime. Owns data quality, governance, lineage, observability, fraud and financial-crime models, production performance, monitoring, retraining, and domain data products. Partners with engineering, product, risk, compliance, legal, and central data teams; influences upstream teams, develops managers and senior ICs, handles incidents, and scales hiring and technical strategy.

Leads an engineering team responsible for delivering and scaling Olo’s restaurant technology platform. Manages engineering projects, technical debt, product roadmaps, system quality, performance, and major technical escalations. The role includes hiring, mentoring, performance management, process improvement, cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and ensuring reliable, scalable solutions aligned with business objectives.

Analyze and resolve software bugs and security vulnerabilities across complex codebases. Develop and refactor backend applications, conduct penetration testing and security audits, optimize performance, apply secure development practices, document findings, and provide cybersecurity and engineering insights for AI training datasets.

Build and operate full-stack features for elastic.co using React, TypeScript, and backend services. Own deployment pipelines, performance monitoring, observability, security vulnerability remediation, production troubleshooting, code reviews, and on-call support in a globally distributed team.