Senior Radar Systems Lead - Hybrid (Clearance-Eligible)

Platform Recruitment; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer pension 10%

Car lease scheme

Private medical insurance

Life assurance 6x salary

Job summary

Platform Recruitment is seeking a Lead Radar Systems Engineer to join a permanent role south of Cambridge. You will provide technical leadership across radar activities and guide multidisciplinary teams from concept to deployment.

The role requires deep radar/RF expertise and a track record in designing advanced radar systems for customers in defence/space, with hybrid working (2 days remote, 3 onsite).

Qualifications

• Significant industrial experience (minimum 10 years) in customised radar systems development.
• Deep expertise across pulse radar, FMCW radar, SAR and radar imaging systems.
• RF systems design, including radio propagation, RF link and transceiver architecture selection.
• Strong RF hardware understanding: microwave circuits, millimetre wave systems, high‑quality synthesisers.
• Systems engineering experience: requirements capture, verification, validation, technical scoping.
• Proven technical leadership of multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of advanced radar and RF systems.
• Define and assess RF architectures against customer requirements.
• Make critical system level trade offs involving performance, cost, risk and complexity.
• Guide multidisciplinary teams through complex project delivery.
• Develop radar system requirements and performance models.
• Carry out system level analysis and architecture selection.
• Evaluate radar performance trade offs including range, resolution and clutter.
• Present complex concepts clearly to customers and stakeholders.
• Support project scoping, proposals and technical planning.
• Identify new opportunities from customer challenges and emerging tech.
• Mentor engineers across radar, RF and systems disciplines.
• Contribute to technology roadmaps and recruitment within the radar team.

Skills

Radar systems expertise

RF systems design

Systems engineering

Technical leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Mentoring engineers

Job description

Platform Recruitment is seeking a Lead Radar Systems Engineer to join a permanent role south of Cambridge. You will provide technical leadership across radar activities and guide multidisciplinary teams from concept to deployment.

The role requires deep radar/RF expertise and a track record in designing advanced radar systems for customers in defence/space, with hybrid working (2 days remote, 3 onsite).