Principal Engineer - Electrical Engineering (Control and Instrumentation)

BAE Systems; Greater Lincolnshire; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense technology company is seeking a Principal Engineer for Vehicle Control System Functional Architect. You will be responsible for leading the design and analysis of motion control systems, ensuring compliance with functional safety and cyber security standards, while mentoring junior engineers. This role offers relocation support and an extensive range of benefits including a competitive pension scheme and health plans.

Benefits

Relocation support packages

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health and wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Experience designing safety-critical systems compliant with Functional Safety.
• Hands-on experience in motion control or flight control systems.
• Demonstrated experience developing systems with cyber security considerations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of flight controls design solution.
• Perform functional safety, quality, and cyber analysis on designs.
• Manage suppliers to ensure timely and quality delivery.

Skills

Architecting motion control systems

Experience with functional safety standards

Cyber security compliance

Newtonian physics knowledge

Developing parameterised plant models

Education

BEng (Hons)/MEng or equivalent

Tools

Speedgoat simulation environment

Job description

Principal Engineer – Vehicle Control System Functional Architect

Responsibilities

• 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 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.
• Attend factory acceptance tests.
• Configure and test equipment.
• Lead the development of our flight controls design solution.
• 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).
• Take technical leadership concurrent with fostering a proactive team culture and developing the competency and skills of the team.

Qualifications

• 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 IEC 61508 family of functional safety (FuSa) standards (e.g., ARP4761, ARP4654, ISO26262).

Desirable Skills

• Further higher education eg 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 a HMI & GUI element.
• Technical report writing skills.
• CEng.

Benefits

We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Principal Engineer – Vehicle Motion Control System Architect, working within The Vehicle Control Team.

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.

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.

The Vehicle Control Team