Principal Engineer – Vehicle Motion Control System Architect
Location: Barrow-in-Furness / Filton / Coventry - Hybrid (dependent on business needs)
Salary: Competitive (commensurate with skills and experience)
What You’ll Be Doing
* Elicit requirements and describe a design solution (from a functional perspective).
* Understand design constraints (due to existing hardware/software).
* Perform functional safety (FuSa), Quality and Cyber analysis on your designs and architect a system that satisfies requirements.
* Develop, collate and publish evidence in support of BAE product delivery processes & applicable standards.
* Ensure designs translate into MBSE or MathWorks toolchain, without loss of any function.
* Manage suppliers to deliver the required solutions on time, to quality & budget.
* Guide development of more junior members of the team.
* Be the technical Subject Matter Expert for the vehicle control system.
* Develop the Validation and Verification plan, including MiL and HiL.
* Attend factory acceptance tests.
* Configure and test equipment.
Essential Skills and Experience
* BEng (Hons) / MEng or equivalent in a relevant subject.
* Demonstrated experience, hands‑on, architecting, analysing and developing motion control or flight control systems, within a Systems Engineering framework.
* Demonstrated experience designing or developing safety critical systems compliant with Functional Safety and System‑of‑Systems best practice.
* Demonstrated experience developing systems compliant with cyber security considerations.
* Good understanding of Newtonian physics, demonstrable experience creating parameterised plant models, filtering and state machines.
* Significant experience developing the functional definition of bespoke motion or flight control systems that are compliant with at least one of the IEC 61508 family of functional safety (FuSa) standards (e.g. ARP4761, ARP4654, ISO26262).
Desirable Skills
* Further higher education e.g. MSc, PhD, post‑doc positions.
* Experience developing real‑time MiL & HiL test in a Speedgoat simulation environment or similar (e.g. IPG, VI Grade, dSpace, NI).
* Experience working on systems that have an HMI & GUI element.
* Technical report writing skills.
* CEng.
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 Vehicle Control Team
Working within the Vehicle Control Team, the Principal Engineer (Vehicle Motion Control System Architect) will provide support to the Engineering Manager and/or external specialists during design, development, analysis, integration and verification of our platform’s motion control system (flight controls). The role will lead the development of our flight controls design solution, be familiar with functional safety and cyber security principles, and serve as a role model for the application of systems engineering activities within the team. Technical leadership is combined with fostering a proactive team culture and developing the competency and skills of the team. Relocation support packages are available across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.
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 fulfill your potential. BAE Systems welcomes people from all backgrounds and strives to provide inclusive recruitment processes. If you have a disability or health condition (e.g. dyslexia, autism, anxiety disorder) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about reasonable adjustments.
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, previously held nationalities, and place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must, as a 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.
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