Top Engineering Jobs in Edinburgh

Provide strategic and technical leadership for ports and maritime engineering across civil, structural, geotechnical and maritime disciplines. Guide technical strategy, governance, and assurance; advise senior stakeholders; support delivery of complex programmes from concept to construction; mentor engineers; and ensure safe, high-quality, commercially aware, and buildable solutions across multidisciplinary teams.

Lead and grow an analytics engineering team to build self-service analytics: own semantic layer, core dbt models, dashboards, and Lightdash adoption. Establish governance, modeling standards, testing, documentation, and enablement while partnering with analysts and Data Engineering to deliver scalable, production-quality data products.

Leads and grows an agentic engineering team building reliable AI development systems. Sets technical direction for agent harnesses, integrations, workflows, model-provider abstractions, tool use, context management, and long-running execution. Partners with Product and Design, contributes to architecture and implementation, improves system reliability and performance, and coaches engineers while maintaining strong execution standards.

Lead the engineering team responsible for Testlio’s core platform capabilities. Set technical direction, own delivery and roadmap execution, modernize legacy systems, and build production agentic workflows using AI. Contribute hands-on through coding, architecture, reviews, production support, reliability improvements, and observability. Partner with product and AI/ML teams while mentoring engineers, improving development standards, and reducing technical debt.

Leads data engineering teams building scalable, governed data products and platforms. Responsibilities include overseeing architecture, ingestion pipelines, orchestration, governance, security, access control, performance optimization, and Bronze/Silver/Gold data layers. The role manages delivery of analytics-ready datasets at very large scale, coaches engineers, and partners with analytics, business, and customer stakeholders to produce actionable operational and financial insights.

Lead and align engineering services to translate customer technical requirements into execution across applications, design, signal/power integrity, simulation, and CAM. Drive operational excellence, continuous improvement, global capacity planning, cross-functional coordination, and accountable delivery of customer commitments while reporting to the CEO.

Lead and mentor a team of software engineers building and maintaining a Network-as-a-Service platform. Drive technical vision aligned with product goals, coach engineers into product-minded contributors, reduce technical debt, evaluate new technologies, coordinate tasks and goals, and foster continuous improvement and career growth.

Provide senior administrative and operational support to the SERENE research group and Project Management Team. Manage complex systems and queries, inboxes, events, procurement, travel and visitor arrangements, small projects, data analysis and reporting, budget monitoring, compliance, and stakeholder communications. Act as Social Value Champion and contribute to process development, training, and committee secretarial duties in a hybrid campus-based environment.

Lead cost control for energy infrastructure projects: implement cost control systems, maintain PMB, map estimates to WBS/CBS, manage forecasts, accruals, change control, interrogate supply‑chain cost data, and provide stakeholder reporting and leadership to meet time, cost, and quality targets.

The Ubuntu Engineering Lead will oversee and mentor teams, drive the development and delivery of high-quality software, and contribute to community engagement while managing technical roadmaps and cultivating engineering talent.

Lead and grow multiple cross-functional Marketplace engineering teams, set technical direction and scaling practices, coach engineering managers, remove delivery friction, and partner with Product, Design and Platform to deliver reliable, scalable marketplace experiences that drive measurable business outcomes.

Act as the bridge between Axis and consultant/specifier communities across the Midlands and South West UK. Build and manage A&E programme relationships, advise on product specifications, train on Axis design tools, create thought leadership, align activities with sales to generate pipeline, and collaborate with global A&E peers to share best practices.

Lead production engineering and delivery of build‑ready shipbuilding programmes at the Methil yard. Translate design intent into optimised production strategies, coordinate design, procurement, construction and testing, define material and building strategies, create work packages, monitor installation/testing, minimise material shortages and drive LEAN continuous improvement across programmes.

Lead and develop a UK & Ireland pre-sales Solutions Engineering team focused on SolarWinds Core & Observability (SaaS and self-hosted). Partner with sales to drive technical pre-sales, solution design, demos, and POCs; optimise coverage and metrics; collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success; enable the team with training, certifications, and best practices to win business.

Lead a software engineering team building omnichannel commerce services (inventory, delivery promise, integrations). Drive execution (OKRs, sprints, capacity, risk), engineering quality, metrics, AI-assisted practices, stakeholder collaboration, hiring, and vendor management to deliver reliable, scalable commerce capabilities.

Lead and grow a software engineering team building personalization, recommendation, and consumer intelligence services. Own delivery planning, OKRs, sprint execution, quality, CI/CD, experimentation adoption, metrics, vendor management, and coaching to drive reliable, data-driven consumer engagement experiences.

Lead platform engineering teams to execute platform strategy, roadmaps, and integration capabilities. Drive platform adoption, developer enablement, test automation, quality engineering, observability, AI-assisted tooling, and engineering productivity. Manage delivery planning, OKRs, sprints, capacity, dependencies, vendors, and stakeholder engagement while coaching and growing high-performing engineering teams.

Lead and grow a high-performing software engineering team for warehousing systems. Oversee agile delivery, technical direction, architecture, cloud-native practices, quality standards, maintenance, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver scalable, observable software solutions.

Senior full-stack product engineer owning large product areas end-to-end: research, write specs, design wireframes, implement features across frontend and backend, and collaborate closely with product, design, and infra. Focus on solving customer problems, building durable abstractions, and shipping high-quality, scalable software.

Senior full‑stack product engineer owning a large product area end-to-end: research customers, write specs and wireframes, design and implement features across frontend and backend, collaborate with product and design, and ship high-quality scalable software.

Lead and grow engineering teams to design, build, and operate scalable AWS-based systems. Define cloud architecture and technical strategy, improve CI/CD and DevOps practices, oversee project delivery, optimize AWS infrastructure for performance and cost, implement monitoring and disaster recovery, and collaborate with product and executive leadership to align engineering priorities with business goals.

Lead a team of 4-6 software engineers with ~40% hands-on technical work. Drive architecture, coding standards, CI/CD, observability, incident playbooks, SLOs, and predictable delivery. Collaborate with Product and stakeholders, improve developer workflows and tooling, automate toil, and recruit and develop talent while fostering inclusive, high-performing teams.

As a Software Engineer, you will develop software models for hardware, enhance simulation tools, and support regression systems, improving developer workflows and diagnostics.

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As an Engineering Manager, oversee data engineering and analytics projects, while leading teams focused on data platforms and governance. Foster collaboration and ensure operational compliance.