System Design Authority (Petersfield)

Location: Portsmouth Broad Oak

Salary: Up to £85,700 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading the technical design for modelling and simulation products, resolving technical challenges and balancing technical risk with cost and schedule trade-offs whilst ensuring safety and design integrity.
• Collaborating with external customers/stakeholders to shape project and product requirements and acting as an ambassador for Simulation and Training.
• Holding responsibility for ensuring products are safe, secure and meet contractual, regulatory and legislative requirements.
• Assisting in defining technology and product strategy, driving the utilisation of common technologies across programs, and ensuring alignment with product goals.
• Providing technical support to project managers, leading design reviews and acting as a focal point for the application of systems engineering within the team.

Your skills and experiences:

• Proficiency in Systems Engineering: Demonstrated knowledge and experience of systems engineering principles.
• Strong Engineering Governance Knowledge: Demonstrated understanding and experience in engineering governance practices.
• Technical Design Leadership: Guide technical design processes with a focus on compliance, complexity, and cost/schedule constraints.
• Innovative Problem-Solving: Develop creative and innovative solutions based on analysis of multiple sources of information, considering stakeholder constraints and priorities.
• STEM Degree or equivalent; Chartered engineer or the ability to obtain chartership.

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 Simulation & Training team:

The Modelling and Simulation Portfolio operates across a number of technology development based programmes in support of Royal Navy Warfare Training (Surface & Subsurface) and Combat System Integration test tools.

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 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: 27th February 2026. 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.