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Job Title: Principal Systems Engineer
Location: Isle of Wight – Cowes, Chelmsford – Great Baddow, or Portsmouth – BroadOak
Salary: Up to £75,900, commensurate with skills and experience. Part-time and accruing hours options available. Please let us know if you would like to discuss these options.
Take on a dynamic Principal Systems Engineering role at the forefront of real-world demands in the defence industry. You will ensure operational excellence for existing products and develop next-generation radar systems to counter emerging threats, contributing to our technological strategy. Your daily work will be exciting and diverse, applying Systems Engineering principles across the entire development lifecycle to develop radar systems used by those who serve and protect us.
What you’ll be doing:
* Developing innovative solutions to evolving technical challenges for complex Radar Systems faced by our customers and end-user communities.
* Applying a broad range of Systems Engineering principles, techniques, and governance to steer and develop technical solutions and resolve engineering issues.
* Conducting system design analysis to manage trade-offs of system parameters, characterizing and specifying robust product designs.
* Leading the decomposition of requirements to system and sub-system levels, managing these in tools such as IBM DOORS Next.
* Being a technical focal point with a holistic understanding of system solutions, leading analysis activities and design decisions, and providing guidance to your team.
* Collaborating with specialists across electronics, electrical, mechanical, and software disciplines to realize overarching system design solutions.
* Directing system integration, test planning, and execution.
* Defining system acceptance strategies and demonstrating system performance across operational scenarios to stakeholders.
* Building your profile with senior stakeholders and expanding your engineering knowledge base.
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
* Understanding in areas like signal processing, target tracking, object classification algorithms, and system/resource optimization.
* Knowledge of factors affecting sensing system performance and their impact on measurement accuracy and timeliness.
* Experience with Systems Engineering standards (e.g., ISO 15288).
* Experience in presenting technical and non-technical information formally.
Benefits:
Includes a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave, and a Company Share Incentive Plan. Additional benefits include flexible working, employee assistance programs, Cycle2work, and discounts. An annual incentive may also be available.
The Radar Systems Engineering team:
You will work within a close-knit, interdisciplinary radar team, evolving radar products to address emerging threats. This role offers opportunities for skill enhancement, technical leadership, and career development within a global business. Flexible and hybrid working arrangements are supported, with our Cowes office accessible via ferry and shuttle services.
Why BAE Systems?
Make a real difference in an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and supports your potential. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and accommodate disabilities or health conditions during assessments. Many roles require security and export control clearances, with some requiring UK residency of 5-10 years for security vetting.
Closing Date: 22nd August 2025. Early applications are encouraged as we may close the vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.
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