Overview

Job Title: Radar Lead Engineer

Location: Warton – Onsite

Salary: £54,793+ depending on skills and experience

Responsibilities

• Develop Radar concepts that meet the customer need / requirement for the FCAS/GCAP system with international partners (Japan & Italy).
• Provide SME Radar knowledge into cross-functional trade studies related to Radar Systems.
• Act as the primary Mission Systems point of contact for Radar Systems within the FCAS/GCAP Programme.
• Provide oversight / technical leadership to supplier activities in the Radar domain.
• Liaise with the tri-lateral MoDs to advise during the development of Radar requirements.
• Execute plans to deliver and undertake oversight / review of performance assessments of Radar systems to support programme gate reviews, SRR and SFR.
• Architecting – Provide technical oversight to the development of the Radar requirements set being modelled in a Model Based Systems Engineering toolset.
• Radar System Design – Plan for and provide technical oversight / delivery of supplier activities to develop Radar systems through to PDR / CDR maturity.
• Planning and implementation for Radar System Integration, simulation, synthetics and test.

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.

Mission Systems Delivery Team

This is an exciting role working in a fast-paced team on an advanced and highly capable sensing system which is at the heart of the next generation combat air systems. In this role, there is opportunity to work as a tri-national team and develop international relationships and experience international cultures.

The role presents opportunities to develop sensing technologies, working with key partners & suppliers and customers and exposure to a wider range of internal and external stakeholders.

You will be part of the Mission Systems Delivery Team (MSDT) delivering the Assessment Phase of the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) programme. The team uses an agile work planning process to develop mission system concept options, architectures and designs for the various components of a future combat air system.

A vacancy exists for a Radar Lead Engineer, who is responsible for the development and delivery of all radar engineering activities as part of the FCAS programme delivering the next generation of military aircraft across the UK, Japan and Italy.

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 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.