Job Title: Mission System Radar Lead Engineer

Location: Warton – Onsite

Salary: £57,000+ depending on experience and skills

The Mission Systems Delivery team

As our Mission System Radar Lead Engineer, you will join a fast-paced team on an advanced and highly capable sensing system which is at the heart of the next combat air systems. In this role, there is opportunity to work as a tri- team and develop international relationships and experience international cultures.

You will play a pivotal role in the development and delivery of all radar engineering activities, delivering the next of military aircraft across the UK, Japan and Italy.

You will be presented with opportunities to develop sensing technologies, work with key partners & suppliers and customers and gain exposure to a wider range of internal and external stakeholders.

What you’ll be doing

Developing Radar concepts which meet customer needs/requirements for the FCAS/GCAP system with international partners (Japan & Italy)

Acting as the primary Mission Systems point of contact for Radar Systems within the FCAS/GCAP Programme and providing Subject Matter Expert Radar knowledge into cross-functional trade studies

Providing oversight / technical leadership to supplier activities in this domain area

Executing plans to deliver and undertake oversight and review of performance assessments to support programme gate reviews, SRR and SFR

Providing technical oversight to the development of the Radar requirements set being modelled in a Model Based Systems Engineering toolset

Planning and technically overseeing supplier activities to develop Radar systems through to PDR / CDR maturity

Planning and implementing Radar System Integration, simulation, synthetics and test

You’ll also have people manager responsibilities in this role

Your skills and experiences

A degree in a STEM subject or equivalent relevant experience

Experience of working with Radar and/or Radio Frequency (RF) systems

Experience of leading and managing engineering teams

Systems engineering and engineering lifecycle experience

Knowledge of systems engineering methods and tools (e.g. UML/SysML, MoDAF, MOOD, Matlab)

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.

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 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 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 , any 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 Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date 1st October 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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