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Job Description - Digital Hardware Engineering Lead (00132982)

Digital Hardware Engineering Lead - 00132982

Job Title: Digital Hardware Engineering Lead

Location: Isle of Wight - Cowes

Salary: Up to £85,700 depending on skills and experience plus bonus scheme. Part time & accruing hours available’ Please let us know if you would like to discuss these options.

• Contributing to the overall design and development of advanced radar systems, supporting the growth of new products from concept through to delivery
• Leading the definition and integration of hardware and digital subsystem interfaces, including high-speed data, control, and calibration signals
• Developing hardware specifications and architectures for digital components, including both bespoke and off-the-shelf solutions
• Translating signal processing concepts into real-world solutions through modelling, simulation, and requirement definition
• Defining and coordinating system timing strategies to enable efficient scheduling and real‑time performance across subsystems
• Supporting system‑level testing, calibration, and design assurance activities to ensure product performance and reliability

• Strong background in Electronics Engineering, with a focus on digital high‑speed and complex design
• Experience in data analysis using tools such as MATLAB or Excel
• Degree in electronics engineering, physics preferred but could have any STEM degree, or experience equivalent
• Understanding of system integration and design assurance processes with a solid grasp of all hardware disciplines, with multi‑disciplinary engineering knowledge
• Previous experience working with radar systems, particularly AESAs (Active Electronically Scanned Arrays)

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.

Join us in shaping the Future of Radar Technology, we are evolving our radar portfolio enhancing our existing and developing brand‑new radar products to address emerging and future threats in the realm of Future Air Dominance. With strong collaboration from our customers and investment in talent, our strategy is to stay at the forefront of defence innovation.

As the Digital Hardware Engineering Lead, you will be focused on the electronic aspects of hardware design, offering the opportunity to lead complex engineering efforts across the full development lifecycle from requirements definition through to system integration, customer acceptance, and support.

Our workplace in Cowes is an easily accessible commute from Southampton with a regular foot passenger ferry and BAE shuttle service from the ferry terminal to site.

As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home.

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.

7th January 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.

“Due to the festive season, there may be a delay in the processing of your application. Your application is important to us, and we will respond as soon as possible. Thank you for your understanding.”