Job Title: Digital Hardware Engineering Lead
Location: Cowes
Salary: From £75,000 depending on skills and experience plus bonus scheme
What you’ll be doing:
* Contributing to the overall design and development of advanced radar systems, supporting the growth of new products from concept through to delivery
* Leading the definition and integration of hardware and digital subsystem interfaces, including high-speed data, control, and calibration signals
* Developing hardware specifications and architectures for digital components, including both bespoke and off-the-shelf solutions
* Translating signal processing concepts into real-world solutions through modelling, simulation, and requirement definition
* Defining and coordinating system timing strategies to enable efficient scheduling and real-time performance across subsystems
* Supporting system-level testing, calibration, and design assurance activities to ensure product performance and reliability
Your skills and experiences:
Essential skills:
* Strong background in Electronics Engineering, with a focus on digital high-speed and complex design
* Experience in data analysis using tools such as MATLAB or Excel
* Degree in electronics engineering, physics preferred but could have any STEM degree, or experience equivalent
Desirable skills:
* Understanding of system integration and design assurance processes
* Familiarity with high-speed digital communications
* Solid grasp of all hardware disciplines, with multi-disciplinary engineering knowledge
* Previous experience working with radar systems, particularly AESAs (Active Electronically Scanned Arrays)
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 Future Radar team:
Join us in shaping the Future of Radar Technology, we are evolving our radar portfolio enhancing our existing and developing brand-new radar products to address emerging and future threats in the realm of Future Air Dominance. With strong collaboration from our customers and investment in talent, our strategy is to stay at the forefront of defence innovation.
As the Digital Hardware Engineering Lead, you will be focused on the electronic aspects of hardware design, offering the opportunity to lead complex engineering efforts across the full development lifecycle from requirements definition through to system integration, customer acceptance, and support.
Closing Date: 22nd April 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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