Senior Electronics Engineer

Job Title: Senior Electronics Engineer

Location: Portsmouth Broad Oak. We offer a range of flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Circa £50,000 depending on skills and experience

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.

Job Description:

The Senior Electronics Engineer provides technical expertise in the electronic aspects of Underwater Systems hardware design, repair, obsolescence, and sustainment. The role supports legacy products through the insertion of new technologies. The Senior Electronics Engineer applies broad engineering knowledge, skills, and demonstrable experience, working in line with established company approaches, techniques, and governance within the electronics domain.

Core Duties:

• Support existing electronic designs and technology insertion programmes, including fault diagnosis, rectification and obsolescence activities
• Design and develop electronic assemblies from requirements and specification through detailed design, testing, integration and release into service
• Develop complex component-level analogue, mixed-signal and power electronic designs, including component selection, schematic capture, simulation and support to PCB layout
• Perform and support design verification and testing, including EMC/EMI, E3, applicable product regulatory requirements and data communication interfaces and protocols
• Design for manufacture and production, including specification of components and bespoke items and management of parts information within SAP
• Work collaboratively with related disciplines including Mechanical Engineering, ILS, Safety and Production to support system integration and electro-mechanical interfaces
• Apply the engineering lifecycle and governance, contributing to technical progress, peer and design reviews
• Provide technical guidance to colleagues through design activities, problem solving and technical reviews

Essential Skills:

• You will have a HND or Degree in Electronic Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• You will have experience generating component-level electronic designs using electronic CAD tools, including Cadence
• You will have complex analogue and mixed-signal design experience, including low-noise and high-reliability techniques
• You will have experience in power electronics, including high-power and high-voltage design techniques
• Experience of sonar electronics, RF, signal processing or FPGA/CPLD design is desirable

The team:

As a Senior Electronics Engineer you will undertake design and electrical integration in respect of legacy products and technology insertion. You will also be responsible for the design elements and obsolescence of the electrical aspects of the Underwater System and associated equipment.

As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach, will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home.

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: 7th October 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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