Systems Engineer - Space Systems (SATCOM)

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BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 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.

We need skilled, enthusiastic and motivated people with experience in large complex engineering programmes to carry out initial work on elements of the ground and space segments of a major government SatCom programme.

Roles come with opportunities for remote / hybrid working, working in our offices in Guildford and Great Baddow only when required.

We will provide you with personal development, CPD including support towards professional recognition, and the opportunity to apply cutting-edge technology to interesting problems with the support of our highly-skilled engineering community.

Come and join us for this exciting opportunity to shape and deliver world-class space technologies.

What you will be doing (role duties and responsibilities)

You will work as part of the Defence and Space Systems Engineering team to design, develop and document the space and ground systems for a bold and exciting space systems project, initial activities will involve SatCom Ground and Space segments. You will work through the full systems engineering lifecycle, including requirements capture, design specification, integration and test, verification and validation and operation. Through life risk and opportunity management, safety analysis, failure / fault analysis, design for security, interface control, interoperability, change control management and configuration control are all important aspects of this role.

The Systems Engineering team will work across all engineering disciplines - including mechanical, electronics, radio, embedded systems, software, security - to ensure coherence and consistency in the system architecture, design and implementation and integration of the subsystems.

What we are looking for (skills and experience)

We are looking for ambitious, high-calibre people with the following characteristics:

Essential:

• Highly motivated individual with a strong background in a relevant discipline, e.g. Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Electronic/Electrical Engineering
• Experience of working in the Space sector
• Knowledge and application of systems engineering processes and functions
• Ability to both work in a fast-paced team environment and work productively on your own

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to learn quickly
• Strong interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with all stakeholders

Desirable:

• Experience with a range of systems engineering approaches, and ability to tailor approaches to the need
• Broad interest and/or experience in radio communications technology, embedded systems and awareness of latest industry developments
• A keen interest in the space sector and awareness of latest industry developments
• Experience throughout engineering lifecycle (system definition, design, build, test and operational deployment)
• System-of-systems definition, architecture and integration

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day. By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance wellbeing.

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.

About BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

We use our intelligence-led insights to help defend Governments, Nations and Societies from cyber-attacks and financial crime. Our customers depend on our evolving capabilities to help them safely grow their organisations. Our unprecedented access to threat intelligence, world-leading analysts and market-leading technology means we can help them to adapt, evolve and stay ahead of the criminals.

Division overview: Capabilities

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.

We may share your CV with other relevant BAE Systems owned companies, but please tell us if you don’t want us to.

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

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.

Division overview: Capabilities

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.