Principal Software Engineer
- Employer
- BAE Systems
- Location
- Frimley, Camberley
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 7 Feb 2025
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- Discipline
- Aerospace & Aeronautical
- Sector
- Aerospace & Aviation
- Job Type
- Engineer
Job Details
Job Description
Job Title: Principal Software Engineer
Location: Frimley, Weymouth or Filton. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary: Competitive
What you’ll be doing:
Managing and mentoring a small team of early careers engineers to ensure they have the skills and support required to deliver our projects successfully
Evaluating and assessing new technologies, both through literature review and practical experimentation and demonstration
Designing and prototyping future combat system applications and supporting environments including state-of-the-art software architectures, semantic information modelling, and artificial intelligence/machine learning
Designing and implementing trials of future technologies alongside existing combat systems
Working with other engineering specialists to understand the impacts of security and safety controls on the combat system design, architecture, components, interfaces, and data
Simulation and analysis of real-world battlespace environments
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
Degree level qualification (or equivalent experience) in relevant IT or STEM subject (Science / Technology / Engineering / Maths)
Working knowledge of software engineering practices in design and development of software applications or integrated systems
Experience in software development in one or more languages
Experience in managing small engineering teams or projects
Desirable:
Experience in IP network design and configuration
Experience with agile development processes and toolsets
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 Systems Engineering team:
This is an exciting opportunity to work on fast-paced programmes and projects, helping us to design, develop, integrate, manage and support combat systems for in-service and future submarines. You will be working to design, rapidly prototype and develop future combat system architectures to enhance future submarine operability and mission effectiveness. You will also be responsible for investigation and exploitation of candidate technologies for improving and enhancing the combat systems offering, ranging from horizon scanning and maturity assessment through to practical demonstration and trials within a laboratory environment or by deployment at sea. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.
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 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: 7th February 2025
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.
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