Principal Systems Engineer

About the role

As a Principal Systems Engineer at JCB Compact Products, you will lead the definition, architecture and integration of complex control systems across our off‑highway machinery portfolio. You’ll play a central role in shaping system behaviour, developing robust architectures and ensuring end‑to‑end requirements traceability from concept through to production. This is a senior technical leadership position, influencing product strategy, guiding multidisciplinary teams and driving best‑practice systems engineering across electrical, mechanical, software and hydraulic domains. Your expertise in model‑based development and systems integration will be critical in delivering advanced, reliable and operator‑focused machine functionality.

What does this role involve day to day?

• Leading full‑machine systems architecture definition across electronic, hydraulic, mechanical and operator‑interaction domains.
• Performing functional decom...