Senior Product Compliance Engineer

BAE Systems; Northampton; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor is seeking a Senior Product Compliance Engineer. This role is focused on ensuring safety during the product design process and involves conducting analyses for product safety and collaborating with engineering teams. Applicants should possess a STEM degree along with experience in product safety and familiarity with relevant safety analysis techniques. The position offers hybrid working options and a range of employee benefits.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health and wellbeing benefits

Green car scheme

Private health plans

Shopping discounts

Qualifications

• Ideally experience in product safety within a regulated industry.
• Familiarity with safety analysis techniques such as FHA, FTA, ETA, FMEA, and STPA.
• Basic knowledge of Defence Standards 00-56 and 00-55.

Responsibilities

• Attend Daily Stand-Up Meetings and report progress.
• Design safety analyses and support team to achieve safety outcomes.
• Provide inputs for Design Safety Justification and assist Principal Engineers.

Skills

STEM degree (regulation experience preferred)

Familiarity with UK Defence Standards

Knowledge of safety analysis techniques

Understanding of IEC 61508 and IEC 61511

Education

STEM degree

Job description

Job Title: Senior Product Compliance Engineer

Location: Barrow-in-Furness, Brough, Filton, Frimley, Portsmouth, Weymouth or Manchester – we offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Negotiable, depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Attending and reporting to Daily Stand-Up Meetings (DSUM)
• Design activities including but not limited to supporting rick reduction/analysis and identification
• Applying a systems engineering approach to safety products including Working within a centralised modelling tool
• Working within a small safety team environment
• Supporting non-safety experienced member of the wider team to achieve desirable safety outcomes
• Supporting and preparing safety assessments as required to support system design and development
• Supporting the preparation of Design Safety Justification supporting inputs
• Providing Safety SME to product design and gate reviews
• Supporting the development and maintenance of a healthy product Safety Culture within the team and wider business

Your skills and experiences:

• STEM degree (ideally with Product Safety experience within a regulated industry)
• Familiarity with UK Defence Standard and publications such as Defence Standard 00-56, Defence Standard 00-55, DSA-01, DSA-02
• Familiarity with safety analysis techniques such as: (FHA) (FTA) (ETA) (FMEA) (STPA)
• An understanding of the principles and requirements of IEC 61508 and/or IEC 61511 for complex Software and Hardware Safety Instrumented Systems

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 Safety Environmental team:

As the Senior Engineer – Product Safety the primary duties for this role will be heavily focussed on the safety during the product design process. You will undertake analysis and provide outputs to the Principal Engineers where they can provide assistance to develop designs further. 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: 5th January 2026

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.