Job Title: Consultant Technologist - Systems
Location: Isle of Wight - Cowes
Salary: Up to £85,700 (dependent on skills and experience) Part time & accruing hours available' Please let us know if you would like to discuss these options.
What you'll be doing:
* Providing support to the System Design Authority regarding overall Radar System design
* Responsible for defining and capturing digital requirements from board level to sub-system level
* Provide digital techniques support to the System Design Authority and techniques groups (RF, software, digits, mechanical, Drawing Office) at all stagers throughout the design life cycle
* Provide support to digital techniques team throughout the design process ensuring adherence to established design protocols
* Provide analysis of system architectures with a view to providing guidance on make/buy/COTS decisions
* Define test and integration plans from board to system level
* System Design Assurance - ensuring there is enough built in functionality to support design assurance. Also contributing to the generation of the system design assurance specification
Your skills and experiences:
* A degree or significant experience in Electronic Engineering or strongly related subject
* Proven experience in digital electronics, including FPGA development, high speed interface technologies (e.g., Serial FPDP, JESD204), complex system control and timing architectures, COTS hardware integration, and PCB design
* Experience in sub-system and System integration and test
* Familiarity with Xilinx/AMD FPGA products and Vivado design tools
* Experience in radar system data analysis
* Experience in the whole design process from requirements to design assurance and sign off
* A solid understanding of radar operation, in particular Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radars is highly desirable
* Familiarity with MBSE and formal requirements management (e.g. DOORS) is highly desirable
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 Future Radar Team:
Join us in shaping the Future of Radar Technology. Building on our heritage of cutting edge, world leading radar products, we are rapidly evolving our portfolio to enhance existing capabilities while pioneering brand new systems designed to counter emerging and future threats across the battlespace. Through close collaboration with our customers and sustained investment in exceptional talent, we are committed to remaining at the forefront of defence innovation and defining the next generation of radar solutions for Future Air Dominance
As a Consultant Technologist, you will focus on the electronic aspects of hardware design, taking a leading role in complex engineering challenges across the full development lifecycle, from requirements definition through to system integration, customer acceptance, and long-term support
Our workplace in Cowes is an easily accessible commute from Southampton with a regular foot passenger ferry and BAE shuttle service from the ferry terminal to site.
As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home.
Closing Date 15th March 2026
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