Join Our Team as a Senior Systems Engineer!
Location: Rochester
We’re excited to offer both full-time and part-time opportunities! Talk to your recruiter about the options available for this role.
Salary: £45,000 – £60,000, based on your skills and experience.
What You’ll Be Doing:
* Understanding our customers’ complex needs and collaborating to develop, validate, and manage requirements at multiple levels.
* Creating intricate system architectures and sub-systems using a Model Based Systems Engineering approach.
* Integrating, analyzing, and testing real-time systems that encompass various technical disciplines, including electronics, mechanics, optics, and software.
* Taking accountability for collaborative technical work package execution and associated outcomes.
* Providing guidance, coaching, and nurturing talent in fellow engineers.
* Ensuring customer needs are met and satisfied.
* Steering the development of new and improved systems through implementation, utilizing best practices in systems lifecycle processes alongside techniques like Learn First and Agile.
Your Skills and Experiences:
Essential:
* Proven experience in developing systems in relevant product markets, such as control systems or safety-related systems, involving multiple technical disciplines.
* Experience in requirements management, design analyses, modeling, and simulation using tools like DOORS, Siemens Polarion, Enterprise Architect, MATLAB, and/or Simulink.
* A degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant Scientific/Engineering subject (e.g., Systems Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Physics, or Mathematics).
Desirable:
* Experience in integration, testing, and verification of real-time and/or safety-related systems, with an understanding of safety assessment processes.
* Customer and/or supplier liaison experience for technical aspects, ensuring customer needs are verified and satisfied.
* An understanding of information assurance, cyber security, and environmental impact aspects related to real-time embedded engineering products.
Benefits:
We offer a competitive benefits package, including:
* A robust pension scheme
* Enhanced annual leave allowance
* Company-contributed Share Incentive Plan
* Flexible working options
* Employee assistance program
* Cycle2work scheme and employee discounts
* Potential eligibility for an annual incentive
The Systems Engineering Team:
Join a dynamic team responsible for developing and supplying products across a diverse mix of commercial and military platforms, including Head Up and Head Worn Displays, Safety Critical Pilot Control, and Flight Control Systems. We encourage our Systems Engineers to gain a breadth of knowledge across these domains, becoming subject matter experts in one or more product areas or systems engineering specialisms.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you can truly make a difference! We foster an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and empowers you to reach your full potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, especially those currently underrepresented in our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ individuals. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessments, please discuss potential reasonable adjustments with your recruiter.
Note: Many roles at BAE Systems are subject to security and export control restrictions. Factors such as your nationality and residency may affect your eligibility for certain positions. All applicants must meet the Baseline Personnel Security Standard, with many roles requiring higher levels of National Security Vetting.
Closing Date: 5th February 2026
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. If you’re interested, please submit your application as soon as possible!
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