Principal Systems Engineer
Location: Cowes, Broad Oak, Great Baddow – Part time & accruing hours available. Please let us know if you would like to discuss these options.
Salary: Up to £75,900 (dependent on skills and experience).
Put yourself into a dynamic Principal Systems Engineering role at the forefront of real world demands in the defence industry. Alongside ensuring operational excellence for our existing products, there will be the opportunity to develop next generation radar products to counter emerging threats and contribute to our strategy for new technology. Your day‑to‑day will be exciting and diverse by applying the principles of Systems Engineering across the entire engineering lifecycle.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Develop novel solutions to evolving technical challenges and emerging issues for complex Radar Systems that our customers and end‑user communities are facing.
* Apply a breadth of knowledge, skills and experience of Systems Engineering principles, techniques and governance to steer and develop technical solutions and resolve engineering issues.
* Conduct system design analysis to manage trade‑offs of system parameters to characterise and specify robust product design.
* Lead the decomposition of requirements to system and sub‑system level and manage these in an approved toolset such as IBM DOORS Next.
* Be a technical focus point with a holistic understanding of a whole system solution leading analysis activities and system design decisions and providing guidance to own team.
* Collaborate with specialists across different engineering disciplines including electronics, electrical, mechanical and software to direct and realise overarching system design solutions.
* Direct and undertake system integration, test planning and execution.
* Define and articulate system acceptance strategies and acceptance evidence demonstrating system performance across a wide range of operational scenarios to internal and external stakeholders.
* Build your personal profile with senior stakeholders and grow a diverse knowledge base in engineering.
Your Skills And Experience
* Good understanding of signal processing, target track extraction, object classification algorithms, system and sensor resource optimisation.
* A good understanding of factors that can affect the real‑world performance of sensing systems and how these can impact the accuracy and timeliness of measurements to meet challenging design objectives and requirements.
* Experience of presenting both technical and non‑technical information in a formal setting.
* Demonstrated understanding and experience of Systems Engineering, inclusive of knowledge of Systems Engineering standards such as ISO 15288.
Benefits
Competitive pension scheme, share plans, extensive 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.
Our workplace in Cowes is easily accessible from Southampton with a regular foot passenger ferry and BAE shuttle service. Flexible and hybrid working arrangements are available, allowing part‑time hours, accruing hours and flexibility around start and finish times.
We welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to diversity of thought, integrity and merit. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about reasonable adjustments.
Many roles at BAE Systems are subject to security and export control restrictions. Applicants must meet the minimum Baseline Personnel Security Standard and, depending on the role, may require higher levels of national security vetting.
Closing Date: 5th November 2025. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
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