Responsibilities

• Accountable for the delivery of electronics, software, and control systems in the company’s prototypes and testing systems.
• Manage small teams, as well as relying on your own expertise, to deliver robotic solutions.
• Implement safe working practices for activities involved in the development of your solutions.
• Build the company’s prototyping capability, developing in-house expertise and building relationships with a supplier base for external expertise.
• Identify and manage project requirements, interfacing with other disciplines to ensure builds meet the projects overall objectives.
• Creation and ownership of project level artefacts including requirements, as-designed and as-built definition, and testing documentation.
• Manage project budgets, resource, and risks, report regularly to project management and the CTO.
• Keeping an eye on future technologies within your discipline, scanning for new capabilities that may have value to the business.
• Support off-site trials of prototypes.
• Contribute to pre-prototype concept design and definition activities for new uncrewed systems.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Health & Safety

• Demonstrate in daily activities a commitment to health and safety in the workplace by always ensuring tasks are performed in the safest possible manner.
• Report all hazards and incidents that the individual is party to, or observes, in the correct manner.
• When required or directed, participate in any health and safety training.

We are open to applications from candidates who already have experience operating as a discipline lead, as well as strong senior engineers ready to take the next step. The scope and level of the appointment may be tailored to reflect the successful candidate’s experience.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's, Master's, or equivalent work experience in electronics, software, robotics, or another relevant engineering field.

Skills and Experience

If you don’t meet all the requirements below but know that you bring other experience you feel could benefit our business, please do still apply.

Essential:

• Strong relevant experience.
• Ability to take robotic concepts from early definition, through prototyping, and on to detailed design, manufacture, assembly, and test.
• Experience developing control strategies that allow autonomous systems to perceive and react to the world around them.
• Competent in the selection, assembly, and interfacing of COTS electronics (batteries, PSUs, microprocessors, sensors, actuators, radios, etc.) in the build of autonomous systems or for test system data acquisition and control.
• Familiarity with common communications protocols such as CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, and Ethernet.
• Ability to make sound engineering decisions quickly, balancing performance, cost, timescale, and risk.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to adapt designs and change direction quickly in response to test evidence or changing requirements.
• Experience leading technical workstreams or small teams, including coordinating the work of external engineers and suppliers.
• A hands-on approach, with willingness to lead practical build, integration, and test activities.
• Flexible, eager to learn, and lead on new engineering areas outside core skills.
• Commitment to safe, robust, and high-quality engineering practice.

Desirable:

• Experience working on autonomous, semi-autonomous, or remotely operated systems.
• Exposure to flight control, simulation, and development tools/environments common in the development of autonomous systems (e.g., Ardupilot/PX4, Gazebo, RoS, etc.).
• Capable software developer for both ‘quick and dirty’ trial systems as well as for deployable code.
• Experience working with a range of actuators including BLDC motors/inverters, servos, linear actuators, etc. Defining requirements and making appropriate selections.
• Experience working with internal combustion engines.
• Experience using laboratory test equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analysers, or power supplies.
• Ability to lead advanced electronic troubleshooting, finding the root cause and solutions for problems found during system integration work including EMI and environmental factors.
• Experience helping define engineering processes, standards, and ways of working in a growing organisation.

Personal Attributes

• Must be a British Citizen or have an existing right to work in the UK.
• Ability to commit to occasional national and international travel.
• A full valid UK driving license.
• Must be able to work onsite routinely, minimum 4 days per week.
• Ability to hold Security Clearance – 5 years residence in the UK.

We are an equal opportunities employer, committed to building an inclusive working environment. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age. It is essential that the successful candidate must, by the start of their employment, have permission to work in the UK. Proof of identity and eligibility to work in the UK will be required prior to commencement of employment.

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.