Job Title:
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 than satisfies requirements.
Develop, collate and publish evidence in support of, BAE product delivery processes & applicable standards.
Ensure you 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 the 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.
Attending factory acceptance tests.
Configuration and testing of equipment.
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
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 1 of IEC 61508 family of functional safety (FuSa) standards (e.g. ARP4761, ARP4654, ISO26262
etc .)
Desirable:
Further higher education
e.g.
MSc, PHD, post doc positions.
Experience developing real-time MiL& HiL test in a Speedgoat simulation environment or similar (i.e. IPG, VI Grade, dSpace, NI
etc .).
Experience working on systems that have a 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:
An
excellent opportunity
has arisen for a Principal Engineer –Vehicle Motion
Control
System Architect, working within The Vehicle
Control
Team
The Principal Engineer (Vehicle
Control
System Functional Architect) – shall 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 Principal Engineer shall
lead
the development of our flight
controls
design solution. They
must
be familiar with functional safety and cyber security
principles
and be a role model for the application of systems engineering activities within the team. The Principal Engineer shall be responsible for technical
leadership, concurrent with fostering a
proactive
team culture and developing the
competency
and skills of the team.
We offer relocation support packages 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 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.
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, 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
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.
Closing Date:
14th December 2025
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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