principal systems engineer

September 5, 2025

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Job title: Principal Systems Engineer

Location: Cowes, Broad Oak, Great Baddow – Part time & accruing hours available. Please let us know if you would like to discuss these options.

Salary: Up to £75,900 (dependent on skills and experience)

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 new day-to-day will be exciting and diverse by applying the principles of Systems 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:

  1. Develop novel solutions to evolving technical challenges and emerging issues for complex Radar Systems that our customers and end-user communities are facing.
  2. Apply a breadth of knowledge, skills, and experience of Systems Engineering principles, techniques, and governance to steer and develop technical solutions and resolve engineering issues.
  3. Conduct system design analysis to manage trade-offs of system parameters to characterise and specify robust product design.
  4. Lead the decomposition of requirements to system and sub-system level and manage these in an approved toolset such as IBM DOORS Next.
  5. Be a technical focus point with a holistic understanding of a whole system solution, leading analysis activities and system design decisions, and providing guidance to your team.
  6. Collaborate with specialists across different engineering disciplines including electronics, electrical, mechanical, and software to direct and realize overarching system design solutions.
  7. Direct and undertake system integration, test planning, and execution.
  8. Define and articulate system acceptance strategies and acceptance evidence demonstrating system performance across a wide range of operational scenarios to internal and external stakeholders.

Through these activities, you will build your personal profile with senior stakeholders and grow a diverse knowledge base in engineering.

Your skills and experiences:

  • A good understanding in some of the following subject areas: signal processing, target track extraction, object classification algorithms, system and sensor resource optimisation.
  • A good understanding of factors that can affect the real-world performance of sensing systems and how these can impact the accuracy and timeliness of measurements to meet challenging design objectives and requirements.
  • Demonstrates understanding and experience of Systems Engineering, which could include knowledge of Systems Engineering standards (e.g., ISO 15288).
  • Experience of presenting both technical and non-technical information in a formal setting.

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems offers 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 Radar Systems Engineering team:

You will be working as a Principal Systems Engineer within our close-knit multi-function radar team of interdisciplinary engineers, evolving our radar portfolio to address emerging and future threats. This role offers opportunities to develop your skills and responsibilities in technical leadership and to grow within a global business.

This role supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements.

Location and working arrangements:

Our workplace in Cowes is accessible from Southampton via ferry and BAE shuttle. We support flexible working hours, including part-time, accruing hours, and flexible start and finish times.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you can make a real difference. We value inclusivity, integrity, and merit, and encourage applications from all backgrounds. If you have a health condition that may affect your performance, please speak to your recruiter about reasonable adjustments.

Note: Many roles are subject to security and export control restrictions, and all applicants must meet the Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Higher security vetting may be required depending on the role.

Closing Date: 8th July 2025. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.

If interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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