SME/Software Team Leader

Job Title: SME/Software Team Leader

Location: Prestwick – Onsite

Salary: £55,498+ depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Completion of allocated software requirements, detailed design and implementation.
• Testing of completed functionality, both at desktop and target hardware level.
• Generation of software level safety requirements and hazard analysis, supporting system certification.
• Accurately reporting on progress and providing feedback to team members and leadership.
• Production of appropriate technical documentation, documenting traceability between design, code and test results.
• Participation in peer reviews of own and others’ work products.
• Use of extensive domain knowledge to troubleshoot issues efficiently, and embed technical and process improvements.
• Securing a formal software technical authority delegation, in order to authorise design and certification artefacts.

Your skills and experiences:

• Degree or equivalent in Software Engineering/Computer Science.
• Software Engineering skills, with a solid foundation in one of C/C++/C#/Ada programming languages and related software development environments (e.g GPS (GNAT), Greenhills AdaMulti
• Practical experience of developing embedded software and test solutions
• Demonstrated understanding of the full software development lifecycle including requirements capture (e.g. DOORS) and design (e.g UML, Artisan, Statemate, Rhapsody)
• Experience in leading teams

Desirable

• Experience in HMI Design and graphins software e.g VAPS
• General Military aircraft domain knowledge and interest

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Typhoon Displays & Controls Software Team

Would you like to write software for the UK’s frontline Eurofighter Typhoon? We currently have a number of vacancies for Senior Software Engineers at our site in Prestwick.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be working on world beating aircraft products, creating cutting edge software for our hardware systems and be involved in the entire lifecycle of a product, from design and development to integration. Working closely with systems and test engineers, you will enable the development of complex real-world

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 of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and 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 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 9th December 2025

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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