BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,800 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 16 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.
Job Title: Electronics Engineer
Requisition ID: 119230
Location: Gloucester or Guildford
Grade: GG08 – GG11
Referral Bonus: £5,000
Wireless Team Overview
The BAE Systems Digital Intelligence Wireless Products Team comprises over 150 talented individuals and growing. Collaborate with professionals from diverse backgrounds, spanning engineering, physics, and mathematics. From industry veterans to rising stars, together we drive excellence.
The team has leading capabilities in Electronics Design, Signal Processing, FPGA’s, RF technologies, Software & Mathematical Modelling.
Personal development opportunities ensure the Wireless Team score highly on retention rate. It’s a really good environment for ambitious techies to flourish.
Imagine solving problems from first principles and building solutions from the ground up. Experience the energy of a "start-up" atmosphere, working in small project teams.
Join us on a journey of cutting-edge projects with rapid design cycles, where your creativity will flourish. You’ll be developing products for extreme operational environments from under water to outer space.
Witness your concepts come to life through the entire end-to-end engineering process. Brace yourself for technical challenges that demand your problem-solving prowess.
What background we are looking for:
• PCB Design, Circuit Design, component selection
• Working with Digital PCBs and/or RF PCBs
• Onsite Dedication: Work onsite to immerse in our secure environment.
• Security Clearance: Qualify for full, unrestricted, UK Security Clearance
• You’ll need to be a UK National, either from birth, or naturalised as well as being a permanent UK Resident for the last 5 years. Due to security clearance requirements for this position we are unable to consider dual nationals and non-UK nationals for this particular role.
What you could be doing for us:
The Wireless Products team works with the UK Government and its trusted partners to develop hardware solutions which are deployed within challenging environments around the world.
The team is passionate about developing technology that helps protect people and keep society safe.
How we will support you:
• Work-life balance is important; you’ll get 25 days holiday a year and, via our flexible benefits package the option to buy/sell and carry over from the year before
• You can work around core hours with flexible and part-time working
• Our flexible benefits package includes; private medical and dental insurance, a competitive pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, taste cards and more
• You’ll have a dedicated Career Manager to help you develop your career and guide you on your journey through BAE
• Don’t know a particular technology? Your learning and development is key to your future career and we provide a range of excellent training courses to enable you to upskill in a given technology
• You’ll be part of our bonus scheme
You are welcome to join any/all of our Diversity and Support groups. These groups cover everything from gender diversity to mental health and wellbeing.
Security Clearance
Only those with the permanent and unrestricted right to live and work in the UK will be considered for a position within BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. Due to the nature of our, work successful candidates for this role will be required to go through Government SC clearance prior to starting with us. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/security-vetting-and-clearance
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 NOTE: You're expected to have completed 12 months in role prior to applying for an advertised vacancy and you should also discuss the internal opportunity with your line manager to ensure sustained business continuity and to further support your career development. We know there may be individual circumstances that impact this, so please discuss this with your line manager or HR Business Partner (HRBP). If you don't feel you can talk to your line manager, you can contact your HRBP.
Should you be invited for interview, you will be giving consent for the Recruitment team to contact you and your line manager regarding your application for this opportunity.
Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence
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.