Systems Architect Electronic Warfare

Salary: £43,000 - 72,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong background in Systems Engineering or Systems Architecture within defence, aerospace, or another high-assurance environment.
• Experience working with Electronic Warfare, RESM, RF systems, or related technologies.
• Good understanding of RF signal conditioning and hardware/firmware interfaces.
• Comfortable taking technical ownership and acting as a senior technical authority within a wider engineering organisation.
• Experience working across international engineering teams and technology transfer would be highly advantageous.
• Able to work independently while providing credible technical leadership across multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• Provide systems across the programme.
• Act as a key UK technical authority for the hardware and system architecture.
• Lead the technical approach for EW/RESM systems, including RF signal conditioning and firmware interfaces.
• Work closely with international engineering teams to transfer and adapt technology into robust UK solutions.
• Provide technical oversight across system architecture, development, integration, and verification.
• Collaborate with systems, RF, hardware, firmware, and wider engineering teams to ensure effective system integration.
• Support the development and evolution of specialist naval Electronic Warfare / MEWSIC capability.
• Operate as a senior individual contributor with no direct reports.

Technologies:

• Firmware
• Hardware
• Support
• Architect

More:

We are a high-tech defence organisation in Bristol working on cutting-edge Electronic Warfare technology within a specialist engineering environment. You will join an established international engineering team and play a key role in the development of next-generation naval defence capability.

last updated 35 week of 2026