Principal Engineer – Requirements & Acceptance

Job Title: Principal Engineer – Requirements & Acceptance

Location: Glasgow – Scotstoun – We offer a range of flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Up to £58,500 (dependent on skills and experience)

What You’ll Be Doing

• Provide engineering support to the process of customer acceptance
• Provide engineering leadership and expertise to the reporting and maintenance of project requirements. This will include verification and validation details associated with the requirements.
• Lead management and maintenance of requirements using requirements development practices, including compliance details, traceability, acceptance characteristics and acceptance evidence
• Act as the senior point of contact with customers and/or suppliers in assigned areas on engineering matters, to resolve relatively complex problems and issues and to maintain awareness in both parties of priorities and objectives
• Manage and produce reports on acceptance status and forecast across the Wholeship at supplier and customer level – For senior – support with rather than manage

Provide help and direction to less experienced team members to support both their effective working and their development

Make engineering decisions within own sphere of responsibility and delegated authority

Maintaining a level of SQEP for the role through personal and professional development

Essential

Your skills and experiences:

• A degree in a relevant subject e.g. Engineering, Computer Science, Maths or other equivalent qualification or equivalent experience
• Applicants should be a Chartered Engineer or hold another equivalent professional registration with a relevant institution
• A good understanding of the engineering lifecycle
• Experience working within systems engineering with a focus on requirements and acceptance
  
  

Desirable

• Competence and capability with requirements capture and management software tools e.g. the Rationale software tools such as DOORS, etc.
• An understanding of configuration management principles
  
  

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Type 26 Requirements & Acceptance Team – Marine

At Principal Engineer level, the role carries responsibility for the successful completion of more than 900 acceptance forms across the 8 Ship programme. You will lead the development and ongoing management of project requirements, shaping and supporting completion of acceptance and ensuring alignment across multiple delivery areas. A key aspect of the role is the development, collation and presentation of robust evidence to demonstrate to the Customer that requirements have been fully met

The T26 Requirements and Acceptance team report to the Chief Engineer, working with the various delivery areas – engineering, operations, quality, supply chain and the Customer to ensure the project delivers the requirements and that the Customer approves them

The role requires strong engagement with the supply chain, engineering teams, quality and operations, and test and commissioning liaisons. There is direct involvement in trials, including opportunities to attend sea trials, offering first‑hand visibility of how designs perform in operation. This is a highly visible and rewarding role, offering the chance to see how complex systems come together and to play a pivotal part in achieving customer acceptance of the Type 26 platform

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

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. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date 6th February 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.