Senior Product Compliance Engineer

Location: Barrow-in-Furness, Brough, Filton, Frimley, Portsmouth, Weymouth, or Manchester. We offer a variety of hybrid and flexible working arrangements—talk to 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, dedicated safety team.
• Guiding team members with less safety experience 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 strong 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, and 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.

In addition to a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems provides:

• 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 analyses and providing valuable outputs to Principal Engineers to enhance design development. We also offer relocation support packages for all Submarines roles, subject to eligibility criteria.

At BAE Systems, you’ll have the opportunity to make a real impact. We pride ourselves on an inclusive culture that values diverse perspectives, rewards integrity, and empowers you to reach your full potential. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and strive to make our recruitment processes as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessments, 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, typically necessitating 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK.

Closing Date: 5th January 2026

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

Note: Due to the festive season, there may be a delay in processing your application. Your application is important to us, and we will respond as soon as possible. Thank you for your understanding!

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