Senior Systems Engineer

Saab UK is part of Scandinavia’s largest defence company, bringing together the best of Swedish and British innovation. Saab offers world-leading solutions and services in defence, aviation, space, and civil security to keep people and society safe. Our UK presence has been growing at pace, meaning we can offer a wide range of opportunities for personal fulfilment and career growth.

Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring purpose, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 28,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world. Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems.

This role is part of our Sensor Systems Radar Business in Fareham. At Saab, we are constantly looking ahead and pushing boundaries on what is considered technically possible. Saab is expanding in the UK and we are now seeking talented and highly motivated engineers to support our radar and sensors growth activities at our Fareham offices.

The successful candidate is expected to fulfil the requirements of a Saab Specialist, and act as a technical leader to:

• Drive development, lead innovation and anticipate future trends.
• Identify opportunities, mitigate risks, and advocate change to maintain competitiveness.
• Lead competence development, and formulate and maintain Specialist Work Programmes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Enhance our current products, develop improvements and investigate new areas for product growth.
• Support the Engineering Team with various Systems Engineering-focused activities.
• Lead the architectural design of PNT solutions, integrating Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), Inertial Navigation Systems, and alternative PNT.
• Architect distributed sensing networks, defining how data is collected, synchronized, and fused across multiple remote nodes.
• Define system-level requirements, interface control documents, and performance specifications for timing accuracy and positioning precision.
• Perform trade studies to optimise the balance between size, weight, power, cost and system performance.
• Implement and optimise high-precision timing distribution protocols.
• Develop strategies for PNT resilience, including mitigation of jamming, spoofing, and GNSS-denied environment operations.
• Design algorithms and architectures for distributed beamforming, phased arrays, or coordinated sensor fusion.
• Manage the challenges of network latency, jitter and asynchronous data arrival in distributed sensing environments.
• Develop comprehensive verification and validation (V&V) plans to prove timing and positioning accuracy.
• Design and execute complex test campaigns using hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop simulations.
• Serve as the Subject Matter Expert for PNT and Distributed Sensing across cross-functional teams.
• Mentor junior engineers in systems engineering best practices and specialized domain knowledge.
• Present technical roadmaps and progress reports to senior leadership and external.

Skills and Experience:

• Master’s or PhD in a related field.
• A minimum of five to ten years industrial radar, communications or electronic warfare systems experience.
• A minimum of seven years of experience in systems engineering, specifically focusing on PNT and/or distributed sensor systems.
• Proven track record with systems utilising GNSS and Inertial Navigation.
• Experience with distributed aperture systems, sensor networks, or Multiple-Input Multiple-Output radar architectures.
• Proficiency with MATLAB/Simulink for modelling and simulation.
• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering tools and requirements management tools.
• Familiar with the principles of ISO 15288:2023.
• Strong understanding of RF front-end design, antenna theory and signal propagation.
• Proficiency in C++, Python, or Rust for prototyping algorithms.
• Experience with encrypted PNT signals or secure timing distribution.

During your employment you will handle tasks and materials that are classified as military secret and therefore you must have a UK or Swedish citizenship.

Location: Fareham Hampshire - Unit 3 Trilogy, Concorde Way, Segensworth North

Type: Full time