Work with world-class engineers.
We are dedicated to pioneering innovative solutions and protecting the future through cutting-edge technology. You can join us and play your part in creating bold, revolutionary products and services, challenging the status quo and driving the future of engineering.
You will be part of a team that are driven by a passion for developing world-class security products; with ground-breaking technology. We have, a collaborative culture and endless opportunities alongside a work environment that fosters continuous development and provides you with the experience needed to thrive in today’s competitive engineering landscape.
You’ll need a minimum 2:2 Bachelor’s degree in a subject related to your chosen area.
Please note: some roles at BAE Systems are subject to security and export control restrictions and your nationality or place of birth may limit the roles you can undertake.
What you can expect
- A two-week immersive induction to prepare you for your role.
- A development journey paced over 18-30 months including technical and personal development, supported by 1:1 coaching sessions.
- A personal effectiveness programme with career coaching and development modules.
- Ownership of your career path with a dedicated support structure including a buddy, mentor, coach and graduate development lead.
- Real-world experience in a supportive environment where you can shape your own career and benefit from early responsibility.
- Stretch projects to take you outside of your chosen role.
- Inclusive learning resources through videos, books, guides and also virtual learning on our digital learning platform, Spark.
- Flexible and hybrid working across many sites and roles.
- Competitive salary and benefits, and an emphasis on wellbeing and prioritising a healthy work/life balance.
2026 graduate engineering opportunities
Explore our current engineering roles.
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As a graduate, you will work in a fast growing discipline applying system engineering principles to the development of concepts and designs for customer service operations.
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As a graduate, you will focus on developing quantum mechanical and molecular dynamics models to increase the understanding of the behaviour of the exsiting materials to support innovation.
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Launch your career in tech as a Graduate DevOps Engineer at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, where you'll master diverse programming languages and tackle complex problems
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As a graduate, you will play a key role in the development and maintenance of unique electrical power systems. You will be involved in complex control systems across the most exciting range of products the UK has to offer.
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As a graduate, you will gain knowledge and experience of the theoretical, analytical and hands-on methods that ensure our products are safe and effective for human use.
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As a graduate, you could be involved in designing, developing and testing complex mechanical systems as well as supporting the build of our new products.
Location: Portsmouth Naval Base,
Start Date: September 2026
As a graduate, you will be involved the ship design lifecycle; from concept design, through design & build, trials and commissioning, and delivery to the customer.
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As a graduate, you will be providing advice and support to departments, organisations and/or stakeholders contributing to the delivery of nuclear safety.
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As a graduate, you will develop manufacturing processes from concept through to commissioning trials and qualification. You will see product development over the whole of the product lifecycle.
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As a graduate, you will identify legislations applicable to systems and equipment on the submarine ensuring they be operated, maintained and decommissioned in accordance with relevant legislation.
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As a graduate, you will support the Maintenance Lead who is responsible for planning activities linked to the Qatar Hawk Mk167 Base Maintenance schedule.
Location: Gloucester
Start Date: September 2026
As a graduate, you will create cutting edge software and be involved in the entire lifecycle of a product, from design and development to integration. You'll enable the development of complex real-world systems that have to perform perfectly every time.
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As a graduate, you will apply supportability engineering principles to the development of concepts and designs for customer service operations. You will gain experience across a number of vital defence programmes providing next-generation capability.
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As a graduate, you will be working with a wider that tests and commissions the Astute & Dreadnought class submarines. You will ensure that the mechanical and electrical systems are built to their design intent and function safely and reliably
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As a graduate, you will undertake weight engineering tasks, which involves calculation and monitoring of weights and centres from project concept to vessel delivery. You will be responsible for monitoring and reporting of a portion of the vessel.
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You will be supporting the generation of Tactical Fleet and Maintenance Plans for the designated fleet. Supporting the planning of aircraft and component maintenance, to ensure compliance with the Operator Maintenance Programme. Support the creation of the Statement of Work (SoW). Producing detailed analysis of aircraft technical performance, occurrence reporting and the results of maintenance activity to support the development of Reliability Programme(s).
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Launch your career as a Graduate Data Engineer where you will work on a range of projects, transforming raw data into actionable insights that drive smarter decisions.
Location: TBC
Start Date: Closed
As a graduate, you will play a pivotal part in suggestions surrounding electronic product content, optimise hardware and software design concepts, develop sophisticated design processes and test complex products.
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As a graduate, you'll develop innovative, mission-critical technologies for high-performance networking, space systems, software and underwater systems.
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As an IT Systems Infrastructure Engineer Graduate, you will be developing your expertise and domain experience to work towards good Systems Engineering practices. You will support Engineers, Senior Engineers and Principal Engineers in delivering IT systems and products to the submarine build and through-life support programmes.You will also be developing an understanding of the principles of the science and technology of computing and have a basic understanding of the customer and user needs of the product system and how this will influence and impact design activities, technical and operational performance.
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As a graduate, you will be building, integrating, and testing bespoke instrumentation solutions where suitable commercial options aren’t available. You'll be supporting emergent site instrumentation projects identifying effective solutions related to metrology and calibration.
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As a graduate, you will work closely with both software, systems and hardware engineers, you will enable the development of complex real-world systems that must perfectly perform every time. You will support the development and testing of Network software and hardware releases.
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As a graduate, you will be working with a wider team to support the operations which verify that the systems have been installed to quality standards. Alongside qualified engineers you will support reactor systems tests that are essential for the submarine safe operation.
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As a graduate you will be working closely within an integrated process and product development team, planning and delivering process engineering tasks. Gaining knowledge and experience in the design process and implementation of new technologies, and supporting the manufacturing team in resolving any issues that may arise.
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As a graduate, you will contribute to requirements elicitation, process definition and configuration of the Product Lifecycle Management digital thread capability.
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As a Quality graduate you are responsible for working with multiple functions, across various life cycle phases driving business improvement activities whilst ensuring system and functional requirements are met. You will gain skills and knowledge in areas such as Quality performance management, tools and techniques, validation and verification, non-conformance management and change management.
Location: TBC
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As an engineering graduate, you could be completing work in a variety of specialist teams in the department who work across Testing, Computational Modelling, System Design and Research & Technology, all within the field of Stealth Engineering. You will also have the opportunity to get involved in all stages of the Submarine's lifecycle, from concept design through to activities with the in-service fleet.
Location: TBC
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As a graduate, you will be supporting a range of initiatives which range from carbon foot-printing and road-mapping of some of our products through to environmental stewardship activities across our sites. The role will also include involvement in developing strategies to promote sustainability across our workforce as part of our ongoing culture change.
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As a graduate, you will be involved in different stages of a products life cycle, helping to support a wide range of activities such as capturing systems requirements, developing, managing and improving technical information and seeing our products in action.
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As a graduate you will develop a practical understanding and application of airframe and aerodynamic engineering. You will be involved in the design and development of fast jets and unmanned air systems.
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As a graduate, you could be involved in designing, developing and testing complex systems, components and products, as well as supporting the build of our new and future classes of submarines including Astute, Dreadnought, and our new SSN-AUKUS.
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Gaining exposure to the entire project lifecycle, you will play a key role in both maintaining our existing systems and supporting development of new technologies. You will make recommendations about electronic product content, optimise hardware and software design concepts, and develop sophisticated design processes and test complex products.
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As a graduate, you will gain wide-ranging experience in the design, development and support of hardware equipment to meet its operational needs.
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As a graduate, you will develop a broad understanding of manufacturing, operations facilities and production roles. You will gain an understanding of how our manufacturing, construction and support teams deliver cutting edge technology in the most effective way.
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As a graduate, you will see the whole engineering lifecycle; from prototyping/evaluating early design concepts, producing a realistic model of how a system performs and developing complex networked simulations
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As a graduate, you will be designing, building, testing, and commissioning the largest and most advanced submarines ever operated by the Royal Navy.
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As a graduate, you will be designing and developing scalable platforms that empower teams to innovate efficiently. Driving seamless integration and reliability to support tomorrow’s technology landscape.
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As a graduate, you will support the business in managing the software and product security through design, manufacture, integration and testing.
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As a graduate, you will support the business in software and product security through design, manufacture, integration and test. You will work towards ensuring that our products are as secure as possible.
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You will undertake designing on board radiation shielding systems which comply with build requirements. Supporting the design optimisation process so that radiation shielding technology and systems are effective at protecting people. Developing models and code (PIC and Monte Carlo) to support the design and verification of radiation shielding.
Location: TBC
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As a graduate, you work throughout the whole submarine life cycle, from concept through to activities with the operational fleet. You'll be designing equipment to withstand shock and dynamic movements of the submarine whilst in operation.
Location: TBC
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As a graduate, you will be involved in different stages of a products life cycle, helping to support a wide range of activities such as capturing systems requirements, developing, managing and improving technical information and seeing our products in action.
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As a Graduate you will work within the Warship Engineering discipline, specifically within the survivability engineering team. Within this team you may undertake ship signature, vulnerability or shock modelling and analysis. You will be working collaboratively with the team in providing advice and guidance to the Platform Designers to ensure that the survivability targets are met. You will be responsible for the delivery of survivability tasks, delivering against the project design requirements.
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We're committed to recruiting in the most inclusive way possible so we can welcome top talent from all kinds of backgrounds to our team.
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.
You’ll need a minimum 2:2 Bachelor’s degree in a subject related to your chosen area – look out for details on preferred degrees when you start exploring our open roles.
You'll also need to be curious to learn, have great problem solving and analytical skills, and the confidence to find and implement new and better ways of working.
We're an inclusive employer and we encourage people from a wide range of backgrounds to apply. Some roles at BAE Systems are subject to security and export control restrictions and your nationality or place of birth may limit the roles you can undertake.
We're committed to recruiting in the most inclusive way possible so we can welcome the best people from all kinds of backgrounds to our team.
The process begins with an online application. If you're successful, we'll invite you to perform a virtual assessment which will include gamified assessment challenges and video questions. The next stage of the process is either a virtual or face-to-face interview. Our main recruitment window runs from the beginning of September, and we recommend applying as soon as possible as roles may close early.
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