Job title: Radar Systems Architect
Location: Warton. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements. Salary: £54,793-£60,326 dependent on skills and experience.
What you’ll be doing:
* Translate customer capability needs into sensor system architectures that deliver mission-critical performance.
* Define clear specifications and interface requirements to drive robust and scalable sensor designs.
* Communicate complex technical concepts with clarity, enabling knowledge sharing and informed design decisions across teams.
* Ensure compliance with airborne software and firmware safety standards, maintaining the highest levels of assurance and certification.
* Act as the Subject Matter Expert (SME), providing trusted guidance to colleagues, stakeholders, and decision-makers.
Your skills and experiences:
Essential Skills:
* Ability to effectively capture and interpret customer capability requirements.
* Experience in sensor architecture, assessing contributions from multiple sensors to deliver end-user capability.
* Proficiency in developing system specifications, interface definitions, and design documentation.
* Skilled at explaining complex technical concepts, contributing to design decisions, and sharing knowledge across teams.
* Demonstrated experience in sensor testing at equipment and system level.
* Degree (or equivalent experience) in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, or Radio Frequency (RF) Engineering.
Desirable Skills:
* Awareness of airborne software/firmware safety and assurance processes.
* Experience working in multi-partner, multi-projects and collaborative environments.
Benefits:
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits.
The Radar Team:
Join us and take the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology within the Typhoon ETRS Mark 2 jet, one of the most advanced fighter aircraft in the world. You will work closely with internal teams and partner nations across Europe and the UK, providing hands-on support, sharing expertise, and driving collaborative solutions.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential.
We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
All applicants must achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residence in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role.
BAE Systems is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and the elimination of discrimination.
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