Systems Integration Engineer (Fusion Energy)

Location: Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. Permanent hybrid position with regular onsite collaboration, typically around three days per week across programme locations.

Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum, dependent on experience.

Company

hirify.global develops fusion energy and high-temperature superconducting technologies, including HTS magnet systems, fusion testbeds, and manufacturing equipment.

What you will do

• Support systems engineering activities across major fusion and advanced engineering programmes.
• Capture, manage, and maintain system requirements with full traceability.
• Develop system architectures, functional breakdown structures, and interface definitions.
• Coordinate information across magnet design, cryogenics, electrical systems, instrumentation, and plant integration teams.
• Support technical and readiness reviews, informed engineering decisions, and technical risk management.
• Develop verification and validation strategies and improve systems engineering processes, tools, and methodologies.

Requirements

• Degree in Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
• Experience applying systems engineering methods in complex engineering environments.
• Track record in requirements management, architecture development, and verification activities.
• Experience working on technically complex products, systems, or programmes.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder engagement, and communication skills.
• Experience working across multiple engineering disciplines and using requirements management tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on fusion energy and advanced superconducting technologies addressing complex engineering challenges.
• 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays and a discretionary festive shutdown.
• Performance-led rewards, including discretionary bonus, innovation, and merit schemes.
• Share options, pension, death-in-service and critical-illness cover, and health and wellbeing support.
• Training, career progression, and ongoing investment in professional growth.