Simulation & Training - System Design Authority

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence; Portsmouth; Hybrid; GBP 60,000; Full time

Job description

Job Title: Simulation & Training - System Design Authority

Location: Portsmouth - Broad Oak. We offer hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa 60,000 commensurate with skills and experience.

What you'll be doing:

• Act as the Design and Technical Authority for assigned programmes, ensuring design integrity, safety, security, and compliance with all customer and contractual requirements.
• Technically lead the development and delivery of training systems, guiding design processes, managing trade-offs, and ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
• Engage with external stakeholders and customers to shape and influence requirements, acting as a key technical ambassador for the engineering function.
• Provide technical support to project managers by advising on risks, trade-offs, and solutions to balance technical delivery with cost and schedule.
• Lead internal design reviews and represent the technical solution in governance forums, including LCM and external stakeholder reviews.
• Support R&D, bid and proposal work, contributing to future product strategy, estimating, and technical solution development.

Your Skills and Experiences:

• A Degree in engineering or a related discipline, with significant industry experience.
• Chartered Engineer (CEng) status is desirable.
• Proven ability to define and develop complex, software-intensive training systems, including integration of third-party applications and hardware components.
• Strong experience in simulation or training systems design, with a good understanding of simulation techniques and virtualised networked environments.
• Ability to communicate complex technical solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior external clients.
• Demonstrated success in working with multi-disciplinary teams across systems, software, and hardware domains.
• Knowledge of Lifecycle Management processes, including risk analysis, reliability, and maintainability principles.
• Awareness of emerging technologies and how they may influence or enhance future training system solutions.

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 Mimesis Product Team:

Mimesis provides a battlespace simulation of the maritime world; from terrain and seabed to weather and underwater acoustics, accurately modelling the movement and behaviour of ships, submarines, and other platforms, and digitally replicating their unique capabilities (sonars, radars, weapons). Our product supports naval training, enables customers to experiment with novel concepts or capabilities, and allows design teams to conduct test and integration of new platform systems and capability upgrades, reducing operational risk.

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: 24th 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.