Electronic Design Engineer

We bring together Swedish heritage and British expertise to drive innovation in areas such as software engineering, underwater robotics, radars, AI, and armed forces training. Joining Saab in UK means contributing to the security and resilience of society while building a career with real scope for personal and professional growth.

Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 26,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.
Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations. This Head of Electronics position will head up the electronics design and prototyping department, leading overall design and a managing a team of electronic engineers.

This role is suited to a person with extensive experience in detailed electronic design, strong leadership capability, and extensive knowledge of safety- and mission-critical development environments, including DO-254 compliance and controlled design documentation processes.


Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of electronic engineers (8-10 staff) across multiple programmes.

~ Define team objectives, competency development plans, and performance goals aligned with business needs.

~ Foster a culture focused on engineering excellence, traceability, accountability, and continuous improvement.


Own and drive the electronic hardware design lifecycle from requirements capture through to production release. Lead detailed design activities for digital, mixed-signal, Application Processor and FPGA-based, and high-reliability systems.

~ Oversee complex circuit design, worst-case analysis, component derating, power integrity assessment, and reliability engineering.

~ Design Standardisation & Quality Governance:

~ Maintain design assurance processes and verification traceability across safety-critical electronics developments.

~ Oversee configuration control, Verfication and Validation activities


Project & Stakeholder Coordination:

~ Work cross-functionally with Systems Engineering, Software, Mechanical, Test, and Programme Management teams to ensure aligned delivery.

~ Support bid development, cost estimation, design planning, and reporting to internal and customer stakeholders.

~ Ensure workloads, priorities, project risks, and dependencies are managed effectively to meet schedule commitments.


Strong project and programme management experience.
* Extensive experience in electronics hardware design across digital and mixed signal systems
* Chartered/Incorporated Engineering Status
* Significant expertise in detailed electronics hardware design.
* Detailed understanding of the electronics manufacturing processes
* Experience managing 5+ projects/programmes at a time with many stakeholders.
* Highly organised and able to work multi projects in fast paced environment
* Experience working on many projects at once and managing your time effectively.
* Experience of interfacing with subcontractors
* Experience writing VHDL or Verilog
* Experience writing embedded C and Python
Subject to UK MoD security clearance vetting to a minimum SC level

As a National Security Vetting clearance is required for this role, applicants will be required to hold National Security Vetting clearance to SC level or have the ability to gain it.