Lead Engineer - High Power systems

Lead Engineer - High Power Systems (121908)

Location: Great Baddow, Chelmsford

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.

About us:

In Digital Intelligence the Defence Business Unit delivers solutions to complex multi-domain communication problems from the sea bed to outer space. We link information from operator, sensors, tactical systems, to provide fused information in a timely fashion to support decision making. We provide advanced mission planning and logistics applications to ensure the delivery military effect. We are world leaders in communications, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, securing data for communication and processing and providing advanced training for the systems and platform that BAE Systems delivers.

The Innovation & Technology group within the Defence Business Unit is the research and technology arm of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence business. In partnership with the other businesses and educational establishments with whom we work, we innovate and develop to transform aspiration and vision into engineered reality.

About you:

You might come from a number of different backgrounds: Academia; MoD; Defence Supplier; Commercial Communications or Sensing Organisation.
You will have a good network of relevant individuals from across MoD, User Communities, Defence Supply Chain and/or relevant commercial industry.
You will be able to influence MoD thinking on future requirements and technology selection. You will have an engineering background and have experience of translating customer needs and operational context into solutions.

Skills/Experiences:

You will have a thorough understanding of the underpinning physics in testing and developing high power systems (power electronics and devices) in the area of directed energy.  
You will have a good understanding of the mathematical modelling techniques used for the design and performance prediction in the fields of power electronics, power supplies, high power source design, RF effects, and a practical understanding of their use, limitations and manufacture.  
You will understand how measurements are made, both as part of the development process and assessment.  You will know how to execute through the lifecycle from early concepts to demonstration and low rate production.

Activities:

Acting as a technical expert guiding and supervising the development of high-power sub-systems in the areas of directed energy.  
Building relationships with customers and partners and helping to define and bid deliverable programmes.  
Mentoring and developing teams of early career engineers in a fast paced and energetic environment.

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.