Senior Systems Engineer – System Design
// Role Summary
Join BAE Systems as a Senior Systems Engineer in Warton, playing a crucial role in the Eurofighter Typhoon's avionic systems design. You'll lead requirements capture, ensure technical coherence, and contribute to shaping a safer future.
// Key Responsibilities
- Lead customer requirements capture and early-stage systems engineering.
- Ensure technical coherence across multidisciplinary avionics design teams.
- Coordinate safety assessments and conduct business case analysis.
- Produce and manage technical documentation in line with strict standards.
- Requires a STEM degree or equivalent experience and strong systems engineering background.
- Hybrid working arrangements available.
// Role Specification
About the Role: Senior Systems Engineer – Systems Design
Join BAE Systems and become a vital part of the Avionic Joint Front-End Team (FET), supporting the engineering lifecycle for the prestigious Eurofighter Typhoon. This role is pivotal in shaping early design decisions on a mature and complex defence platform, translating customer needs into structured engineering requirements and ensuring alignment across multiple specialist disciplines.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Act as a key interface for customer requirements capture and early-stage systems engineering activity, ensuring technical coherence across avionics design teams.
- Work closely with human-machine interface specialists and wider engineering stakeholders to define requirements, assess system constraints, and develop coherent design concepts.
- Lead requirements capture activities with customers and key stakeholders.
- Coordinate safety assessments, identifying potential hazards and system concerns.
- Conduct business case assessments, including scope definition, change impact analysis, and solution evaluation.
- Perform feasibility studies on design recommendations in collaboration with SMEs and engineering teams.
- Produce, manage, and maintain technical documentation in line with security, export control, and configuration management standards.
- Ensure alignment and consistency of requirements across multidisciplinary avionics design teams.
Essential Skills and Experience:
- STEM degree or equivalent experience required.
- Strong systems engineering background, ideally within aerospace or defence environments.
- Proven experience in requirements capture, analysis, and management on design front-end.
- Ability to produce structured, formal engineering and project documentation.
- Understanding of configuration control and engineering governance processes.
- Ability to work within defined standards, processes, and regulatory constraints.
- Awareness of safety considerations and technical risk assessment in engineering systems.
About the Team:
The Avionic Joint Front-End Team works at the forefront of the engineering lifecycle, influencing critical early design choices. This is a highly collaborative environment where systems thinking, technical judgement, and effective stakeholder engagement are paramount.
Working at BAE Systems:
BAE Systems is committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements. Applicants must meet Baseline Personnel Security Standard, and many roles require higher levels of National Security Vetting.