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Principal Systems Engineer

  • Location: Cowes
  • Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum + 10% bonus per year
  • Job Type:Permanent

Posted 11 days ago

  • Sector: Defence & Aerospace
  • Contact: Jonathan Maironis
  • Contact Email: j.maironis@jamrecruitment.co.uk
  • Client: BAE Systems
  • Expiry Date: 25 March 2025
  • Job Ref: 95093_1739269655

I'm looking for a Principal Systems Engineer to join BAE Systems in Cowes, Isle of Wight.

You will be working within a multi-function radar team of inter-disciplinary engineers, evolving their radar portfolio of existing and brand-new radar products to address emerging and future threats in the realm of Future Air Dominance.

What you'll be doing:

  • Develop novel solutions to evolving technical challenges and emerging issues for complex Multi-Function Radar Systems that our customers and end-user communities are facing
  • 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
  • Conduct system design analysis to manage trade-offs of system parameters to characterise and specify robust product design
  • Lead the decomposition of requirements to system and sub-system level and manage these in an approved tool-set such as IBM DOORS Next
  • 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 own team
  • Collaborate with specialists across different engineering disciplines including electronics, electrical, mechanical and software to direct and realise overarching system design solutions
  • Direct and undertake system integration, test planning and execution
  • 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

Essential Skills:

  • 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 in order 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

The salary is £60,000 to £70,000 plus a 10% annual bonus and flexible working hours.

You MUST be a British national to be considered for this role due to security clearance requirements.