Senior Product Compliance Engineer at BAE Systems

Location: Barrow-in-Furness, Brough, Filton, Frimley, Portsmouth, Weymouth or Manchester. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Negotiable, depending on experience

What You’ll Be Doing

• Attending and reporting to Daily Stand-Up Meetings (DSUM).
• Design activities including risk reduction/analysis and identification.
• Applying a systems engineering approach to safety products including working within a centralised modelling tool.
• Working within a small safety team environment.
• Supporting non-safety experienced members of the wider team to achieve desirable safety outcomes.
• Supporting and preparing safety assessments as required to support system design and development.
• Supporting the preparation of Design Safety Justification inputs.
• Providing Safety SME to product design and gate reviews.
• Supporting the development and maintenance of a healthy product safety culture within the team and wider business.

Your Skills And Experiences

• STEM degree (ideally with Product Safety experience within a regulated industry).
• Familiarity with UK Defence Standards and publications such as Defence Standard 00-56, Defence Standard 00-55, DSA-01, DSA-02.
• Familiarity with safety analysis techniques such as FHA, FTA, ETA, FMEA, STPA.
• An understanding of the principles and requirements of IEC 61508 and/or IEC 61511 for complex Software and Hardware Safety Instrumented Systems.

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.

The Safety & Environmental Team

As the Senior Engineer – Product Safety, the primary duties for this role will be heavily focused on safety during the product design process. You will undertake analysis and provide outputs to the Principal Engineers who can help develop designs further. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to eligibility criteria.

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 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 ensure 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 security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have 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. Some roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting, which typically requires 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level.

Closing Date: 7 September 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. If you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Management and Manufacturing

Industries

• Defense and Space Manufacturing