RF Engineer

TieTalent; Sandown; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company in the defence industry as an RF Engineer in Cowes, contributing to radar product development and operational excellence. Engage in circuit design, simulations, and testing while enjoying flexible working arrangements and opportunities for professional growth. This role offers a competitive salary package and the chance to be part of innovative projects that protect lives.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Health and wellbeing benefits

Annual incentive eligibility

Qualifications

• Degree or relevant industrial experience required.
• Eager to learn business procedures and governance standards.

Responsibilities

• Support RF circuit design including component selection and simulation.
• Contribute to electromagnetic simulation and design verification.

Skills

RF circuit design

Electromagnetic simulation

Design verification

Technical documentation

Education

Degree, HNC, or HND in Electronic Engineering

Job description

Location: Cowes, Isle of Wight – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Up to £50,000 dependent on experience

Put yourself into a dynamic RF Engineer 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 contribution to our strategy for new technology. Your new day-to-day will be exciting and diverse by applying the principles of Engineering across the entire engineering development lifecycle as you join in developing radar systems used by those who serve and protect us.

What you’ll be doing:

• Support RF circuit design including component selection, simulation, schematic capture and preparing guidance for PCB design teams

• Support electromagnetic simulation and analysis

• Contribute to design verification using a combination of simulation, analysis, and test techniques

• Contribute to design documentation and technical reports

• Support design evaluation and testing in our new engineering lab

Your skills and experience

• A degree, HNC, or HND in Electronic Engineering or strongly related subject/industrial experience.

• An appetite for learning business approaches and procedures including standards for governance and compliance

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 BAE Systems Naval Radar team:

BAE Systems Naval Radar provides Radar products and support services to a diverse range of customers worldwide. This role will provide engineering support as part of a team delivering capability upgrades to the Royal Navy over the next 10 years. You will have the opportunity to develop and enhance your skills and knowledge, with the potential to lead into more senior positions within a global business.

Our workplace in Cowes is an easily accessible commute from Southampton with a regular foot passenger ferry and BAE shuttle service from the ferry terminal to site.

As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach, will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include part time hours, accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home.

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: 2nd June 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.