Principal Engineer – Prototype Lead (System Integration, Verification and Validation)

Job Title: Principal Engineer – Prototype Lead (System Integration, Verification and Validation)

Location: Barrow-in-Furness, full time onsite

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Circa £55,000

Who we are:

Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.

From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space, there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.

Job Description:

You’ll establish the SSNA programme requirements for the Prototyping PCS IV&V capability, by collaborating with relevant stakeholders and implementing any learning from experience found from other submarine programmes, to establish a programme enabling PCS Prototyping infrastructure for SSN AUKUS.

You’ll oversee the procurement, development and integration of Plant models, integrated hosted functionality models and System Prototypes (from the Platform Complex System domain).

Core duties:

• Lead Platform Complex Systems IV&V Prototype Project establishing the IV&V requirements and with internal and external stakeholders
• Lead the identification of capability, toolsets and method required to deliver Prototyping for Platform Complex Systems
• Lead in the management and procurement of individual IV&V toolsets and Rig capabilities for Model in the Loop and Hardware in the loop to assist in the establish of programme infrastructure
• Establish how IV&V is to be conducted on Prototypes and how evidence is to be produced