Job Title: Principal Systems Engineer
Location: Isle of Wight - Cowes, Portsmouth, Broad Oak or Chelmsford – Great Baddow
We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role. Salary: up to £75,900, commensurate with skills and experience. Part‑time and accruing hours are available. Please let us know if you would like to discuss these options.
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, you will have 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 systems engineering principles across the entire engineering development lifecycle as you join our team of radar engineers.
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 face.
* 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 the system solution, leading analysis activities and system design decisions and providing guidance to your team.
* Collaborate with specialists across different engineering disciplines, including electronics, electrical, mechanical, software and radar subject‑matter experts, to direct and realise overarching system design solutions.
* Direct and undertake system integration, test planning and execution.
* Define and articulate system acceptance strategies and evidence to demonstrate system performance across a wide range of operational scenarios to internal and external stakeholders.
Your skills and experiences:
* Experience of systems design, integration & test.
* An understanding of systems and product life‑cycles from concept through to delivery.
* An understanding of a range of engineering disciplines (software, mechanical, electrical).
* An understanding of radar systems is desirable but not essential if other complementary skills demonstrate a capacity to learn new technologies quickly and effectively.
* Good interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate to all levels within the organisation and externally.
* Experience of presenting both technical and non‑technical information in a formal setting.
* Degree (or equivalent) qualified in an engineering or science discipline.
Benefits:
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems offers employee share plans and a wide 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 Systems Engineering team:
You will be working as a Principal Systems Engineer within a close‑knit, multi‑function radar team of interdisciplinary engineers, evolving our radar portfolio of existing and brand‑new radar products to address emerging and future threats. Join us and help shape the future of radar technology!
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible.
If you have a disability or health condition (for example, dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder, etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
Many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must, at minimum, achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of national security vetting, where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
Closing Date: 9th March 2026. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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