Principal Product Safety Engineer Radars

Job Title: Principal Product Safety Engineer Radars

Location: Portsmouth Broad Oak, Cowes – can be UK wide, working a hybrid pattern

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 + bonus scheme

Who we are:

Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.

From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space, there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.

Role description:

Reporting to the Radar Product Safety Manager, you will deliver product safety engineering activities across legacy and future radar systems, providing expert advice, producing safety documentation, ensuring compliance with safety requirements, solving complex engineering challenges, supporting project milestones, and offering technical guidance to stakeholders. Knowledge of military product design is beneficial.

Core duties:

• Providing expert product safety guidance to engineering teams, supporting projects, bids and design activities
• Developing and maintaining safety management plans, hazard logs, safety cases and certification evidence
• Conducting hazard identification, risk assessments and safety analyses, including FMEA and FTA methodologies
• Evaluating engineering designs and collaborating with customers to ensure safety requirements are achieved
• Leading or supporting product safety reviews with customers, regulators, supply chain partners and stakeholders
• Promoting a strong safety culture through investigations, technical leadership, mentoring and capability development

Essential skills:

• Knowledge of defence and or MOD safety standards, including Def Stan 00-055/056 or MIL-STAN 882E
• Experience applying safety processes across systems engineering lifecycles and product development
• Skilled in hazard identification, risk assessment, and safety analysis techniques
• Ability to develop robust safety cases, ALARP justifications, and hazard logs
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, collaborative working, and technical report writing skills
• Degree-qualified engineer, ideally CEng/IEng, or willingness working towards, with broad product safety expertise

The Radar team:

Join a team at the forefront of radar innovation, working across the full engineering lifecycle to solve complex challenges and deliver technologies that make a real difference. With access to advanced facilities, diverse development opportunities, and a culture that values expertise and growth, you’ll help shape the future of radar capability while protecting those who protect us.

Why BAE Systems?

Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive:

We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

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: 10th August 2026

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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