Electronics Engineer – Guildford, Surrey
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.
Launched in 2022, Digital Intelligence is part of BAE Systems and has a rich heritage in helping to defend nations and businesses around the world from advanced threats. We develop world-class RF and data systems and we are expanding our teams in areas including space systems and C5ISR with a common requirement for electronic engineering. We need skilled, enthusiastic and motivated people at all experience levels from early careers to seasoned professionals to deliver these exciting new capabilities. Our Wireless group provides consultancy-led engineering services to national security and defence customers. Solving our clients’ problems often requires us to produce novel high-performance solutions, comprising cutting-edge software and hardware technologies.
What you will be doing (role duties and responsibilities)
You will work with a team of highly-skilled engineers from a range of backgrounds and contribute to the design and implementation of electronic systems. We design and deliver high-performance systems, generating interesting and complex electronics design challenges. Whether it’s the most sensitive radio receivers, designing for very low SWaP environments or making electronics for the harshest environments, we pride ourselves on our ability to deliver. Depending on your experience level, you might use your skills and experience to lead teams of engineers to design, implement and deliver electronic systems. Or, as an early-years professional, you might develop your electronics skills as part of a dynamic and skilled engineering team, working towards taking on ever-greater project responsibility.
We’d like to hear from people who have experience in some or all of the following areas:
- RF: We design RF circuit boards ranging from low-power embedded sensors to high-performance systems covering a wide range of bands from VHF through to millimetre wave systems. This development may involve modelling (e.g. using Matlab, Agilent ADS, CST, Spice etc) as well as schematic capture and RF circuit board layout.
- Digital, mixed-signal and power: We develop a wide range of boards such as state-of-the-art digital signal processing platforms incorporating space-hardened FPGAs, SoCs and processors; boards to interface to external sensors and systems (eg optical sensors, electromechanical systems, optical comms lasers, etc) often incorporating high-speed data interconnects.
- Mechanical and system integration: We design enclosures to incorporate our PCBs and other subsystems. The designs have to be easily assembled and provide cooling and protection in challenging environments. This work often involves environmental and compliance testing.
- Systems: Most of our solutions comprise a blend of hardware, firmware and software. Early in the development lifecycle, you will be involved in the design activity responsible for partitioning the functionality into these domains taking into account the system requirements and constraints.
Essential:
- Highly motivated with a strong academic background typically in Electronics.
- A keen interest in the space or defence sector and awareness of the latest industry developments.
- Understanding of the principles of practical electronics and PCB circuit design and layout.
- Ability to fault-find and debug problems in a logical and thorough manner.
- Competent in the use of laboratory measurement equipment (eg oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers, vector network analysers etc).
- Comfortable working on multiple projects at the same time and in a dynamic environment where deadlines and priorities are changeable.
- Experience working within multi-disciplinary development teams in a project-based environment.Good interpersonal skills; able to work well in a dynamic, col
