FPGA Developer

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,800 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 16 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

The Wireless Products team works with the UK Government and its trusted partners to develop hardware solutions which are deployed within challenging environments around the world. The team is passionate about developing technology that helps protect people and keep society safe.

What background we are looking for:

• Ability to produce high-quality complex FPGA designs on Xilinx devices
• Understanding of FPGA and SoC architectures
• Onsite Dedication: Work onsite to immerse in our secure environment.
• Security Clearance: Qualify for full, unrestricted, UK Security Clearance

The BAE Systems Digital Intelligence Wireless Products Team comprises over 150 talented individuals and growing. Collaborate with professionals from diverse backgrounds, spanning engineering, physics, and mathematics. From industry veterans to rising stars, together we drive excellence.

The team has leading capabilities in Electronics Design, Signal Processing, FPGAs, RF technologies, Software & Mathematical Modelling. Personal development opportunities ensure the Wireless Team score highly on retention rate. It’s a really good environment for ambitious techies to flourish.

Imagine solving problems from first principles and building solutions from the ground up. Experience the energy of a "start-up" atmosphere, working in small project teams. Join us on a journey of cutting‑edge projects with rapid design cycles, where your creativity will flourish. You’ll be developing products for extreme operational environments from underwater to outer space. Witness your concepts come to life through the entire end-to-end engineering process. Brace yourself for technical challenges that demand your problem‑solving prowess.

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offer employee share plan, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits including a green care 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 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 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.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Capabilities is the engine that keeps the business moving forward. It is the largest area of Digital Intelligence, containing our Engineering, Consulting and Project Management teams that design and implement the defence solutions and digital transformation projects that make us a globally recognised brand in both the public and private sector.

As a member of the Capabilities team, you will be creating and managing the solutions that earn us our place in an ever changing digital world. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.