Principal Research Engineer - Cryogenics

Principal Research Engineer - Cryogenics in Bristol, Avon | GKN Aerospace My career My jobs MA My account Search These jobs were popular with other job seekers Product Sustaining Engineer Outsource Kenn, Clevedon (BS21), BS21 6TH £58000-£63000 + bonus and benefits 3 weeks ago Senior Electrical Design Engineer Progressive Recruitment Clevedon, Somerset £47000 - £53000 per annum + Benefits 3 days ago Senior Principal / Associate-level Mechanical Engineers - Water Sector Expression of Interest Stantec South West 2 weeks ago Electrical Engineer - HV Substation Design (UK and Ireland) AECOM Bristol, Avon 1 week ago Senior Principal / Associate-level Mechanical Engineers - Water Sector Expression of Interest Stantec Bristol, Avon 2 weeks ago Senior Principal / Associate-level Mechanical Engineers - Water Sector Expression of Interest Stantec Cardiff, South Glamorgan 2 weeks ago Senior ECandI Engineer (Nuclear) AECOM Bristol, Avon 1 week ago Senior Electrical Engineer ATA Recruitment Llanvaches, Caldicot (NP26), NP26 3AA £55,000 - £66,000 1 week ago Research Engineer - Electrical GKN Aerospace Bristol, Avon competitive 4 weeks ago Pneudraulics Technician Morson Edge Saudi Arabia £280 per day 1 month ago Principal Research Engineer - Cryogenics GKN Aerospace View Profile Bristol, Avon On-site Published: 4 weeks ago competitive Apply Save Principal Research Engineer - Cryogenics GKN Aerospace Apply Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities. GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we're inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We're proud to play a part in protecting the world's democracies. And we're committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 32 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world's aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.6bn in 2025. There are no limits to where you can take your career. Job Summary Based at GKN's Global Technology Centre the role provides a unique opportunity to work with one of the industry's most respected minds: Stephen Harrison, GKN Technical Fellow and Visiting Professor in cryogenics at the University of Bath. linkedin.com/in/stephen-harrison-88528119 The role of a Principal Cryogenic Research Engineer is to provide technical leadership and strategic direction for cryogenic power distribution within GKN Aerospace Hydrogen Systems. The role plays a critical part in advancing sustainable aerospace power and propulsion technologies by defining, developing, and integrating cryogenic systems that enhance overall system performance, efficiency, and capability. This position leads the progression of cryogenic concepts from early-stage research through experimental validation and system integration, advancing technologies across Technology Readiness Levels (TRL 1-6). The role carries responsibility for setting technical vision, leading complex, multidisciplinary development activities, and ensuring robust translation of research into production-ready, system-level solutions . The Principal Engineer will provide authoritative technical leadership across projects, drive capability growth within the organisation, mentor and develop engineers at all career stages, and champion engineering best practice, governance, and functional excellence. The role requires extensive cross-functional engagement across disciplines including Electrical, Controls, Systems, and Prototyping to ensure cryogenic solutions are fully aligned with broader system architectures, requirements, certification pathways and production/delivery objectives . How you'll Contribute The Principal Research Engineer - Cryogenics will contribute to the following: Lead the definition and development of system architectures and concepts for MW-class cryogenic-electrical power distribution systems operating at temperatures down to 25 K, ensuring alignment with programme and business objectives. Own the end-to-end development of system requirements, providing governance across requirements management, safety assessment, risk mitigation and compliance through design into a validated and certifiable physical product. Define and govern design principles, material selections, and technology specifications, ensuring robust, scalable, and cost-effective solutions that meet performance, safety, and airworthiness expectations. Lead validation, verification and qualification strategies, defining compliance routes through analysis, simulation, and test (e.g. DO-160) and providing technical leadership to certification planning and engagement. Provide functional and technical leadership across multidisciplinary teams, chairing design and peer reviews, assuring technical quality of deliverables, and supporting capability growth through coaching and mentoring. Generate and protect intellectual property, shaping cryogenic technology development in line with GKN Aerospace Hydrogen Systems' long-term technology roadmaps. What you'll Bring To help us make a difference, you'll bring your passion and expertise/ talent for what you do along with the following skills, experience, qualifications and attributes: Essential: Technical Skills Minimum B.Eng degree or equivalent and qualified with ≥ 8 years relevant experience Strong understanding of thermodynamic and mechanical principles, with the ability to apply first-principles engineering to real-world technical and manufacturing challenges. Demonstrated experience in the development, integration, and evaluation of cryogenic systems, including exposure to manufacturing, assembly, and test environments. Experience with high-current power systems employing superconducting and/or hyperconducting technologies at cryogenic temperatures. Solid understanding of the effects of cryogenic environments on material properties and the resulting implications for system, component, and manufacturing process design (e.g. welding, joining, tolerancing). Experience across the full product development lifecycle for cryogenic equipment, from concept definition through detailed design, drawing development, release to manufacture, and technical review. Experience in functional and physical system development at component and system levels, including design for manufacture and assembly (DFMA) considerations. Experience supporting manufacturing activities such as build planning, process development, production issue resolution, and shop floor engagement. Experience conducting and contributing to safety assessments, risk evaluations, and production readiness reviews. Experience defining and managing technical work packages internally and with external partners, including specifications, statements of work, and manufacturing deliverables. Experience reviewing, approving, and leading design reviews to assure technical quality, manufacturability, and compliance. What We'll Offer Once you're on board you'll get the following perks and benefits: Competitive salary dependent on experience Up to 15% Bonus Industry Leading Pension Scheme = we'll match your contributions up to 8% on a 1 : 1.5 basis (Employer max contribution 12%) Life Assurance 8 x salary 25 days holiday + bank holidays Flexible working hours including the ability to finish at 12noon on a Friday Income protection Shopping discounts Cycle To Work Scheme Employee Assistance Programme Virtual GP Clinic for you and immediate family A collaborative, dynamic working environment We'll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go? A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles we've created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. It's a culture that won us 'The Best Workplace Culture Award'. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work. We're also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know. We are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology. Apply GKN Aerospace Other Manufacturing 69 Reviews 62 Jobs The company is part of Company Profile In Short Industry Aviation & Aerospace Founded 1759 Location Worldwide Company size 1000+ Making Aerospace Fit for the Natural World. Every day, around the world, we help aircrafts fly further, faster and greener. We’re the world’s leading multi-technology tier one aerospace supplier.  We develop, build and supply an extensive range of advanced aerospace systems, components and technologies for use in Defence and Commercial aircraft ranging from helicopters and business jets to passenger planes and the most advanced fighter aircrafts. Please let me know if you are succesful with this. If not, please could you send through a screenshot of the error message? Our technology is on-board 100,000 flights a day and we’re a market leader in Aero structures, Engine Systems, Transparencies and Wiring Systems.  We’re a truly global business, with 16,000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries serving over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers. In the UK we operate across 5 performance centres; Bristol Filton, Bristol Western Approach, Bristol Global Technology Centre, Luton and Cowes (Isle of Wight). People. Our people work with passion and determination; proud that our work impacts our company, industry and planet.  We draw on each other’s expertise and experience to achieve excellence.  We build our teams on trust and respect, we believe there is power in people, but even greater power in teams. Whether you’re looking to start your career at the forefront of engineering as an Apprentice, Intern, Graduate or Associate, work in a global support role, work regionally in one our performance centres, or as an executive helping to lead our business, there is plenty of opportunity to make an impact.  We can offer you a career that can go in many directions thanks to our breadth of international opportunities. Planet. Our ambition to be the most sustainable partner in the sky has real purpose and is opening up a world of fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. In the last decade we’ve made record investments into research and development to accelerate sustainable aviation and the ultimate goal of net zero by 2050. We’ve invested deeply in the future of flight through new materials and processes, electrification and hydrogen propulsion technologies. We’re doing everything possible now to reduce emissions and waste in our manufacturing processes, making aerospace fit for the natural world. Progress. We’re a tier 1 supplier to the aerospace industries biggest names, so a career at GKN Aerospace can truly offer you an unrivalled breath of experience to achieve your full potential. We want you to succeed and progress. We support our employees with training; developing their capabilities and helping realise their aspirations. Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Our goal is to embrace the human attributes that make each of us unique, to value those attributes and their uniqueness, and to create an environment where everyone feels welcome to contribute and bring their full self to work every day.  We need people of different backgrounds, with different skills and perspectives to spark originality, imagination and creativeness in our teams. We’re committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know. 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