Senior Mission System Architect – Autonomy
BAE Systems
Overview
As Senior Mission System Architect – Autonomy, you lead the design and integration of autonomous, mission-critical command and control systems for future maritime platforms. You will shape strategies for Hybrid Navy capabilities, ensuring modular, secure and scalable solutions across domains and coalitions. Collaborating with customers, partners and suppliers, you influence roadmaps and deliver disaggregated mission system solutions that enable operational effectiveness and export opportunities. This role sits within Naval Ships Combat Systems and offers the chance to work at the forefront of maritime autonomy and digital engineering.
Pay / Benefits- lifelong learning
- family-friendly rewards and support
- wellbeing support
- balanced lifestyle
- Lead architecture strategy for autonomous mission systems and capabilities
- Integrate AI, ML and control algorithms into operational solutions
- Develop safety, assurance and validation approaches for autonomous systems
- Define human-autonomy teaming concepts and operational behaviours
- Champion interoperability, scalability and system-of-systems integration
- Influence customers, partners and programmes on autonomy roadmaps
- A degree in Engineering (or related subject)
- Full membership of an appropriate engineering institution and Chartered Engineer, or actively working towards
- Extensive experience in autonomy, system-of-systems architecture or complex defence integration
- Strong understanding of AI/ML, autonomous systems assurance and digital engineering
- stakeholder engagement
- cross-functional collaboration
- influencing and communication with customers and partners
- AI/ML
- autonomy
- digital engineering
Reference: WJ-747_30162086