Principal Hardware Engineer
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Job Title: Principal Hardware Engineer
Location: Rochester -We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary: Circa £60,000 depending on skills and experience + enhanced rates for overtime
What you’ll be doing:
- Executing complex hardware design tasks in accordance with the hardware development plan, whilst meeting agreed timescales and allocated budgets
- Conducting hardware requirements capture, preliminary design, detailed design including a range of analysis tasks
- Adopting an innovative approach to design and identifying improvements to working practices
- Providing technical guidance and support
- Coaching & developing the skills of junior team members
- Delivering design artefacts in accordance with company and industry standards
- You’ll also have people manager responsibilities in this role
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
- Degree/HND in electronics engineering or an equivalent qualification
- Extensive working knowledge and experience of digital &/or analogue electronics technologies
- Proven experience of working through the engineering development lifecycle, from concept to product certification
- Robust understanding of product design and work package control
Desirable:
- Mentor Graphics Expedition Enterprise
- Analogue simulations tools, such as Simetrix or Spice
- System development tools, such as Enterprise Architect, Matlab, Simulink
- Requirement of management tools, DOORS
Benefits:
You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
The Hardware Engineering team:
As a Principal Hardware Engineer you will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team to formulate and optimise innovative hardware engineering solutions, for products such as Helmet Mounted & Head-Up Displays, Mission Computers, Flight Controls, Active Inceptors, and other associated safety-critical technology.
This role will provide you with the opportunity to work with innovating cutting-edge projects as a member of a very experienced diverse team, with the view to progressing your career in this industry.
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, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also 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 working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.
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