Naval Radar Principal Systems Engineer

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Job summary

Join a leading company as a Naval Radar Principal Systems Engineer, where you'll tackle real-world challenges in the defence industry. This role involves developing next-generation radar products, ensuring operational excellence, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. Enjoy flexible working arrangements and a competitive benefits package while making a difference in national security.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible benefits including health and wellbeing

Private health plans

Shopping discounts

Potential annual incentives

Qualifications

• Understanding of signal processing and system performance.
• Experience in Systems Engineering, including ISO 15288.
• Ability to present technical information formally.

Responsibilities

• Develop solutions for complex radar systems.
• Conduct system design analysis and manage trade-offs.
• Lead requirements decomposition and system integration.

Skills

Signal processing

Target track extraction

Object classification algorithms

System resource optimisation

Systems Engineering

Job description

Job Description

Job Title: Naval Radar Principal Systems Engineer

Location: Isle of Wight – Cowes

Salary: Up to £70,600 commensurate with skills and experience. Part time & accruing hours available

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, there will be the opportunity to develop next-generation radar products to counter emerging threats and contribute to our strategy for new technology. Your daily activities will be exciting and diverse, applying the principles of Systems Engineering across the entire development lifecycle as you help develop radar systems used by those who serve and protect us.

What you’ll be doing:

1. Develop novel solutions to evolving technical challenges and emerging issues for complex Radar Systems faced by our customers and end-user communities.
2. Apply a broad knowledge of Systems Engineering principles, techniques, and governance to guide and develop technical solutions and resolve engineering issues.
3. Conduct system design analysis to manage trade-offs of system parameters, characterising and specifying robust product designs.
4. Lead the decomposition of requirements to system and sub-system levels, managing these in an approved toolset such as IBM DOORS Next.
5. Serve as a technical focal point with a holistic understanding of entire system solutions, leading analysis activities and system design decisions, and providing guidance to your team.
6. Collaborate with specialists across electronics, electrical, mechanical, and software disciplines to direct and realize overarching system design solutions.
7. Oversee system integration, test planning, and execution.
8. Define and communicate system acceptance strategies and evidence demonstrating system performance across various operational scenarios to internal and external stakeholders.
9. Build your profile with senior stakeholders and expand your engineering knowledge base through these activities.

Your skills and experience:

Essential:

• A good understanding of areas such as signal processing, target track extraction, object classification algorithms, and system and sensor resource optimisation.
• Knowledge of factors affecting real-world sensing system performance and their impact on measurement accuracy and timeliness to meet challenging design objectives.
• Understanding and experience of Systems Engineering, including standards like ISO 15288.
• Experience in presenting technical and non-technical information formally.

Benefits:

Alongside a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems offers employee share plans, extensive flexible benefits including health, wellbeing, lifestyle discounts, a green car scheme, private health plans, shopping discounts, and potential annual incentives.

The Radar Systems Engineering team:

You will work as a Principal Systems Engineer within our close-knit, multidisciplinary radar team, evolving our radar portfolio to address emerging and future threats.

This role offers opportunities to enhance your skills and advance your career within a global organization. You will receive support to grow your knowledge in contemporary Radar techniques, with potential for increased responsibilities and technical leadership.

This role supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements.

Our Cowes location is accessible from Southampton via ferry and shuttle services, facilitating easy commutes.

As the workplace evolves, we offer flexible working hours, including part-time, accruing hours, and flexible start/end times to help balance work and personal life.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place to make a real difference. We foster an inclusive culture that values integrity and merit, empowering you to fulfill your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, especially underrepresented groups including women, minorities, and those with disabilities. Please discuss any reasonable adjustments needed during the recruitment process.

Note that many roles are subject to security and export control restrictions, which may influence your eligibility based on your nationality, previous roles, and place of birth. All applicants must meet at least the Baseline Personnel Security Standard, with higher vetting levels possibly requiring 5-10 years of UK residency for thorough security checks.

Closing date: 20th May 2025

We may close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received. We encourage early applications.