Senior Product Compliance Engineer

Location: Choose from Barrow-in-Furness, Brough, Filton, Frimley, Portsmouth, Weymouth, or Manchester. We embrace hybrid and flexible working arrangements—just ask your recruiter about the options available for this role!

Salary: Negotiable, based on your experience.

As a Senior Product Compliance Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring safety throughout the product design process. Here’s what you’ll be doing:

• Participating in Daily Stand-Up Meetings (DSUM) to keep the team aligned.
• Engaging in design activities focused on risk reduction and analysis.
• Applying a systems engineering approach to safety products using a centralized modeling tool.
• Collaborating within a small safety team environment.
• Guiding non-safety experienced team members to achieve optimal safety outcomes.
• Preparing safety assessments to support system design and development.
• Contributing to Design Safety Justification inputs.
• Providing Safety Subject Matter Expertise (SME) during product design and gate reviews.
• Fostering a healthy product Safety Culture within the team and the wider business.

We’re looking for someone with:

• A STEM degree, ideally with experience in Product Safety within a regulated industry.
• Familiarity with UK Defence Standards and publications such as Defence Standard 00-56, Defence Standard 00-55, DSA-01, DSA-02.
• Knowledge of safety analysis techniques like FHA, FTA, ETA, FMEA, and STPA.
• An understanding of IEC 61508 and/or IEC 61511 principles for complex Software and Hardware Safety Instrumented Systems.

At BAE Systems, we believe in rewarding our team members. Here’s what you can expect:

• A competitive pension scheme.
• Employee share plans.
• An extensive range of flexible, discounted health, wellbeing, and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme and private health plans.
• Shopping discounts and potential eligibility for an annual incentive.

In this role, you will focus on safety during the product design process, conducting analysis and providing valuable insights to Principal Engineers to enhance designs. We also offer relocation support packages for eligible candidates across all Submarines roles.

Join us and make a real difference! We foster an inclusive culture that values diverse perspectives and rewards integrity and merit. You’ll be empowered to reach your full potential. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and are committed to making our recruitment processes as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance, please discuss potential reasonable adjustments with your recruiter.

Important Note: Many roles at BAE Systems are subject to security and export control restrictions. Factors such as your nationality and residency may affect your eligibility for certain positions. All applicants must meet the Baseline Personnel Security Standard, with many roles requiring higher levels of National Security Vetting.

Closing Date: 20th February 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. If you’re interested, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible!

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