Senior Systems Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Systems Engineer

Location: Filton/Portsmouth. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Up to £55,830 commensurate with skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• You will provide support to the associated Combat System Technical Lead for the physical integration of the Combat Systems equipment, ensuring coherency across the Systems and incorporation of whole ship requirements

• Ensure you assist Technical Leads with the production of, scheduled delivery, and maintenance of the suite of design information for the Combat Systems

• This role will require you to assist with the production of design artefacts in support of Detail Designers to ensure that Combat Systems compartment layouts are viable and in line with design intent

• Ensure that design rules for the physical integration of the Combat System equipment are adhered to, and assist with providing technical input to the Technical Authority when required

• Engage with the Platform System Disciplines to ensure that platform system interfaces are understood and agreed with the customer

• You will assist the Technical Lead in the production of estimates and schedules to support the Change Management Team

• Provide support to resolution of technical issues through Installation, Setting to Work and Trials activities

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• STEM degree or equivalent, or demonstration of comparable suitable experience

• Familiarisation with IT whole stack infrastructures, virtualisations and application layers

• Understanding of System Engineering design Lifecycle

• Comfortable dealing with technical change and uncertainty

• Good communication skills, able to interpret technical reports and impact assessment data to help influence the technical solution

• Comfortable working with multiple MS office and Engineering IT packages

Desirable:

• Familiarisation of Defence and/or Platforms involving complex integration challenges and operational environments

• Systems Engineering experience

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 Command and Information Systems team:

The Type 26 frigate is a class of anti-submarine warfare (ASW) warships being built for the Royal Navy. The Type 26 utilises Shared Infrastructure and cloud technology to host combat systems capability providing an open, secure and reliable environment. Working within the Command and Information Systems team, the successful applicant will be at the forefront of delivering technology refresh programmes that are designed to maintain the operational capabilities of the fleet.

As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach, will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home.

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: 2nd September 2025 – Interview w/c 15th September 2025

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.

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