Future Radar Signal Processing DA

BAE Systems.; Cowes; Hybrid; GBP 80,000; Full time

Job description

Job Title: Radar Signal Processing Technical Lead

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

Salary: Circa £80000 depending on skills and experience

Put yourself into a dynamic Radar Signal Processing Technical Lead 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 System 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. Lead design and architectural implementation of a common signal processing platform for future complex radar products, provide technical leadership and focus to a team that will design, implement and integrate signal processing solutions into radar products.
2. Effectively interact with the project technical authority, project engineering manager and senior stakeholders.
3. Collaborate with specialists across different engineering disciplines including electronics, electrical, mechanical and software to direct and realise a consistent system design approach.
4. Apply and champion the Systems Engineering principles of ISO 15288 to the design across the entire engineering lifecycle from requirement definition to system integration and customer acceptance into system support and disposal.

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

1. Expert and detailed understanding of Signal Processing algorithms and the implementation of these in a real time software-driven environment.
2. Understand the relationship between algorithmic, software and hardware platform implementation.
3. Experience of leading signal processing architectural development and design activities.
4. Experience in one or more programming languages.

Desirable:

1. Experience in Complex Radar Signal Processing.
2. Knowledge of software and hardware engineering lifecycles from requirements capture to in-service support is highly desirable.

Benefits:

You'll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You'll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Radar Systems Engineering team:

As the Radar Signal Processing Technical Lead, you will lead the design and implementation of a common signal processing platform for future radar products. You'll provide technical leadership to a multidisciplinary team, ensuring integration of signal processing solutions across the full engineering lifecycle. Working closely with senior stakeholders and engineering specialists, you'll apply and promote ISO 15288 Systems Engineering principles to deliver a consistent and effective system design.

In this role, you will be able to enjoy both flexible and hybrid working arrangements.

Our workplace in Cowes is an easily accessible commute from Southampton with a regular foot passenger ferry and BAE shuttle service from the ferry terminal to site.

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 part time hours, 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, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also 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: 1st May 0225

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.