Lead Radar Systems Engineer

Overview

As Lead Radar Systems Engineer you will own radar system design from concept to deployment within a multidisciplinary team. You’ll balance performance, size, weight and power while shaping customer proposals and project scope. You’ll guide architecture decisions, perform performance modelling, and mentor engineers to grow the capability. This role blends hands-on engineering with strategic leadership to advance the radar capability of the consultancy.

Responsibilities

• Lead radar system design and architecture decisions across concepts, modelling, RF architecture and deployment
• Assess trade-offs in detection range, resolution, sensitivity and clutter with cost and risk
• Collaborate with RF, electronics, signal processing, software and systems engineers to ensure system-level performance
• Shape proposals, scoping, and customer engagement; mentor engineers and contribute to technology roadmaps and recruitment
• Capture requirements and plan verification and validation for multidisciplinary delivery
• Represent technical decisions to customers and support business development and capability growth

Key requirements

• Extensive industrial experience developing bespoke radar systems
• Strong radar architecture and performance modelling across pulsed radar, FMCW or SAR/radar imaging
• Practical understanding of RF transceivers, antennas, propagation and microwave hardware
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering delivery, requirements capture, and verification/validation planning
• Confidence explaining technical decisions to customers and developing engineers

• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Mentoring and team leadership
• Customer-facing collaboration
• Radar architecture
• Performance modelling
• Pulsed radar

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