Job title: Radar Systems Architect
Location: Warton- We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role
Salary: 54,793-60,326 Dependent of skills and experience
What youll 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-national 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, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
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. In this role, you will be the Subject Matter Expert for your department, providing technical leadership, guiding design decisions, and helping to shape the future of airborne sensor systems.
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. This role offers exposure to complex, high-profile projects and the chance to influence strategic decisions that have a real operational impact.
In addition, youll stay at the forefront of emerging technologies, continuously expanding your skill set through professional development and practical experience. Your contributions will be recognised and rewarded, with clear opportunities to grow your career within a world-class organisation that values innovation, expertise, and collaboration.
If you are passionate about advanced aerospace systems, enjoy working in a collaborative international environment, and thrive when solving complex technical challenges, this is the role for you.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where youll be able