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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.
 

Job title: Senior Flight Control Engineer

Location: Poznań, hybrid

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Purpose & scope:

• To develop flight control and simulation software.

• Leading software project teams to design and document software.
• Communication with stakeholders and other departments to ensure software meets requirements.
• Co-ordinating all aspects of aircraft and simulation software requirements, design and implementation.

Responsibilities:

• Model-based design of flight control software using Simulink or similar.
• Leading the design and maintenance of autopilot simulation software.
• Coordination and contribution to flight performance studies.
• Development of flight dynamics models for company products.
• Oversight and coaching of team members in the use of related software development tools.
• Collaboration with colleagues and stakeholders to define software requirements.
• Review of software source code and model designs.
• Collaboration with other engineering disciplines.
• Leading test and test recording to ensure correct operation of software and that requirements are met.
• Lead the software team within individual projects to deliver activities to agreed cost and schedule.
• Support the Project Manager in scoping, defining and estimating project tasks.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Skills & Experience:

Essential:

• • Experience in designing and documenting control systems.
  • Deep understanding of aeronautics and control theory.
  • Considerable experience of designing and documenting software.
  • Experience using MATLAB & Simulink.
  • Knowledge of a variety of programming languages and tools.

Desirable:

• • Understanding of real time and embedded software.
  • Knowledge of safety related engineering practices.
  • Leadership and mentoring of software engineers.
  • Previous experience or interest in UAVs.

We expect:

• Ability to commit to occasional national and international travel
• Excellent communicator
• Excellent problem-solving ability
• Ability to work well in a team
• Enthusiasm for their work and self-motivated
• Ability to hold Basic Check security clearance / openness for higher clearance process application (PL/NATO/EU/ESA)

We offer:

• Permanent contract (3months probation period).
• Benefits package: life insurance, private medical care package (Medicover), Multikafeteria system, lunch card, integration events, annual bonus and company stocks.
• Development and improvement opportunities.

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.

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.

Division overview: Government

At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Government contracts are an area we have many decades of experience in. Government and key infrastructure networks are critical targets to defend as the effects of these networks being breached can be devastating.

As a member of the Government business unit, you will defend the connected world and ensure the protection of nations. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.