Top Engineering Jobs in Belfast

Leads a distributed team of Site Reliability and Backend Engineers responsible for GitLab.com's asynchronous processing and caching platforms. Owns reliability, service-level objectives, capacity planning, incident response, on-call operations, Redis upgrades, operating system patching, deployment architecture, and migration to a durable workflow engine. Manages hiring, development, quarterly planning, roadmap execution, and coordination across globally distributed teams.

Manage a team of machine learning engineers developing credit and lending models for international markets. Set technical strategy, guide advanced ML solutions, partner with product, engineering, analytics, design, and risk teams, and ensure scalable underwriting capabilities. Provide hands-on technical leadership, clarify complex problems, manage trade-offs, and mentor engineers while contributing to Affirm’s long-term machine learning strategy.

Supports the planning, development, and improvement of aerospace manufacturing processes, tools, technologies, and production systems. Responsibilities include continuous improvement, waste reduction, automation and digital manufacturing initiatives, industrialisation of new products, production problem-solving, data analysis, and cross-functional collaboration with engineering, quality, operations, supply chain, and production teams.

Manage a distributed team of senior and staff engineers developing and scaling Gitaly, GitLab’s Git storage tier. Drive complex infrastructure, performance, scalability, architecture, and maintainability initiatives while balancing roadmap and platform priorities. Provide mentoring, career development, technical guidance, and accountability. Collaborate asynchronously with Git and cross-functional teams, represent Gitaly’s technical direction, and ensure long-term platform viability through sound architectural judgment.

Graduate engineers will contribute to aerospace projects at Short Brothers in Belfast across design, research and technology, materials and processes, stress analysis, and test and technical systems engineering. The role involves collaboration with experienced engineers, development of aerospace technologies, and professional growth through coaching and mentoring. Applicants need a relevant accredited engineering degree, a strong interest in aerospace, communication skills, and the ability to work full-time on-site in Belfast.

A 12-month aerospace engineering internship at Short Brothers, a Boeing company, based in Belfast. Interns will support live projects across design engineering, research and technology, materials and processes, stress analysis, powerplant and systems engineering, and experimental and ground testing. Candidates will gain practical engineering experience, collaborate across teams, and develop professionally while contributing to aircraft component innovation and sustainable aviation.

Supports aerospace quality assurance, regulatory compliance, new product development, supplier quality, continuous improvement, and quality testing. The graduate will use APQP and specialized technologies such as digital metrology, CMM programming, NDT, calibration, and laboratory testing while collaborating with engineers, suppliers, customers, and regulators.

Lead and grow an engineering team responsible for Affirm’s international identity platform, including KYC, user lifecycle management, and identity decisioning. Own technical strategy, multi-quarter roadmaps, architecture, reliability, availability, incident response, and operational improvements. Drive major consumer-facing initiatives, cross-functional alignment, and technical execution across Product, Design, Analytics, and Engineering teams while developing engineers and maintaining a high-trust culture.

Leads and scales Rapid7’s EMEA sales engineering organization, managing Solution Engineers and serving as the region’s strategic technical authority. Partners with sales, marketing, product, engineering, executives, and channel partners to drive revenue, retention, consultative security solutions, strategic proofs of concept, demonstrations, and enterprise deals. Represents the company at industry events and translates customer needs into product strategy while improving forecasting, leadership development, and presales performance.

Manages a globally distributed team of Assigned Support Engineers serving enterprise customers. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, performance management, escalation leadership, customer recovery planning, cross-functional coordination, KPI tracking, capacity planning, process improvement, automation, and communicating customer outcomes and ROI. The role requires strong technical knowledge, including Linux administration and web application concepts, plus experience supporting production-critical environments.

Leads a 10+ person AI-native R&D engineering team while remaining hands-on with coding, architecture, prototypes, distributed systems, and production readiness. Owns initiatives from ambiguous requirements through implementation, evaluation, validation, documentation, and handoff. Establishes responsible AI-assisted development practices, mentors engineers, maintains high standards for security, testing, reliability, and code quality, and partners with Product, Architecture, Security, and Engineering stakeholders.

Leads software quality engineering and validation for eCOA clinical trial projects. Establishes quality standards, testing processes, automation strategies, KPIs, and validation procedures. Manages internal and offshore QA teams, vendors, resources, project risks, audits, CAPAs, and department operations. Oversees tools including JIRA, Git, and Jama while partnering with managers, HR, technology teams, and service providers to improve efficiency, testing coverage, compliance, and delivery timelines.

Engineering Manager responsible for leading a software engineering team, managing sprint planning and delivery, maintaining engineering quality standards, mentoring engineers, identifying risks, and partnering with Product, Design, and the Director of Engineering. This player-coach role requires technical leadership, experience with Bubble.io or low-code platforms, agile delivery expertise, and support for hiring and onboarding as the company grows.

Conduct an individual doctoral research project in phase-change heat transfer within the SurPhase network. Responsibilities include designing and analyzing experimental, computational, or data-driven research; publishing findings; maintaining reproducible research records; contributing to project deliverables; collaborating with academic and industrial partners; attending training and conferences; undertaking international secondments; and completing doctoral degree requirements.

Develop, debug, test, and optimize machine learning models, training pipelines, inference systems, numerical methods, and supporting infrastructure. Build reproducible Python workflows, diagnose computational issues, validate implementations, use coding agents, and document technical findings. This remote role requires approximately 15 hours per week and rapid task availability.

Lead a small team developing secure, reliable agentic AI capabilities. Responsibilities include setting technical direction, building agent monitoring, evaluation, and guardrail frameworks, performing machine learning tasks, translating research into production features, mentoring engineers, and contributing hands-on code and technical designs. The role focuses on agent collaboration, trust, security, quality measurement, and scalable software delivery.

Build and own automated testing frameworks, CI/CD infrastructure, load and stress testing, and chaos engineering practices for a brokerage platform. Write primarily Go, integrate AI and LLM tooling into quality workflows, investigate application and Kubernetes failures, improve developer tooling, and mentor engineers on reliability and test coverage.

Leads railway engineering, ERTMS, and digital systems teams; establishes fleet engineering capabilities for RDG, DFTO, and GBR; develops rail engineering policies and standards; supports digital signalling deployment; manages senior stakeholders, budgets, teams, and engineering development programmes; and provides strategic technical leadership across rolling stock, safety, interoperability, communications, and supply chain activities.

Owns end-to-end product and engineering strategy for Mews' Back of House domain. Leads globally distributed engineering teams, builds the management structure, develops senior talent, and improves reliability, performance, and technical debt without disrupting delivery. Determines where AI should be integrated into the product and ships AI-driven improvements. Requires VP-level product and engineering ownership, SaaS scaling experience, strong people leadership, and hands-on experience shipping AI as a core product capability.

Leads global AI-first MarTech engineering strategy, architecture, governance, compliance, and delivery. Oversees scalable digital platforms, public-facing properties, GenAI applications, R&D, proof-of-concepts, and automated compliance capabilities. Builds and mentors a global team of engineering and AI professionals, manages vendors, and partners with marketing, business, cloud, security, privacy, infrastructure, and legal stakeholders to deliver secure, high-performance digital experiences.

Leads the operational integrity, reliability, security, and continual improvement of enterprise connectivity platforms across stores, logistics sites, datacentres, and Azure environments. Drives automation, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and Site Reliability Engineering practices. Provides technical leadership, oversees outsourced NOC services and managed partners, governs supplier performance, and improves service quality and operational efficiency through proactive engineering.

Executive engineering leader responsible for defining enterprise-wide software engineering strategy, architecture, tooling, roadmaps, and delivery-performance measures. The role drives modern CI/CD, automation, AI adoption, engineering excellence, and safer, faster software delivery. It combines strategic thought leadership with targeted proofs of concept, market and supplier evaluation, and close collaboration with technology executives and engineering teams.

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.

The Assistant Professor will develop an internationally recognised research programme, publish impactful work, secure external funding, and build industry partnerships. Responsibilities include designing and delivering undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, curriculum development, student assessment, PhD supervision, mentoring, knowledge transfer, enterprise, outreach, and departmental administration. The role also involves contributing to equality, diversity, inclusion, strategic initiatives, and a supportive academic community.

Coordinates the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences Spatial Review of research laboratory facilities. Responsibilities include project planning, data collection and analysis, milestone and risk tracking, stakeholder engagement, reporting, budget monitoring, communications, and supporting evidence-based investment decisions. The officer may lead workstreams, manage smaller projects, recommend solutions and improvements, and allocate work to colleagues while maintaining effective project delivery.