Overview
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Location: Prestwick – Onsite
Salary: £55,498+ depending on skills and experience
What you’ll be doing
* Completion of allocated software requirements, detailed design and implementation.
* Testing of completed functionality, both at desktop and target hardware level.
* Generation of software level safety requirements and hazard analysis, supporting system certification.
* Accurately reporting on progress and providing feedback to team members and leadership.
* Supporting System Test and Integration Activities.
* Production of appropriate technical documentation, documenting traceability between design, code and test results.
* Participation in peer reviews of own and others’ work products.
* Robust configuration of completed work.
* Management of a team of software engineers, supporting and promoting professional development.
* Helping to define software development strategy within the wider team, discharging workload to ensure delivery to programme, quality and cost.
Essential qualifications and experience
* A demonstrated STEM degree in a relevant subject e.g. Software Engineering.
* Expert knowledge of the software engineering lifecycle with a solid foundation in one of Ada/C/C++/C#.
* Practical experience of developing embedded software.
* Experience delivering complex software integration programmes and products to schedule and cost; ability to manage a team.
* One or more of the following key skills:
* Hardware software integration in a real time embedded environment.
* DO-178, Multi Core Processors and other industry standards.
* Toolset and process specialists; experienced software team leaders with change programmes.
* Experience in HMI design and graphics software (e.g. VAPS).
Desirable
* Avionics/Mission systems domain knowledge.
* Use of Jira or other task management systems.
* General Military aircraft domain knowledge and interest.
Benefits
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems offers employee share plans, a range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts. You may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
Closing Date: 17 October 2025. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications.
About the team
The Typhoon Displays & Controls Software Team is seeking Software SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) and Software Team Leaders for Prestwick. In this role you will work on world‑leading aircraft software across the lifecycle, collaborating with systems and test engineers to deliver reliable, high‑quality software for real-world use.
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