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Saab Global
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Head of System Design, Surveillance Design

Göteborg,
Sweden
Closing date: 16 March 2025

Do you imagine a career that constant stretches your capabilities and offer you the opportunity to work with technologies of the future? We offer an exciting opportunity to join a global company with a mission to make the society safer.

Your role

Are you our next Head of System Design? You will be a crucial part of the Design organisation and its management team.

The market is evolving rapidly and therefore we want to reshape how we design and verify our products for the future. We strive to adopt a modularized architecture for our products enabling more reuse of both requirements and verification.
To succeed you will work closely with colleges within the Design organisation but you will also have several important stakeholders all over Saab. 

You will report to the Head of Design.

You and your team will have an important role within this new organisation, such as:

  • Responsibility for platform system design

  • Requirement handling and promotion of new ways of working

  • System integration and verification in reference labs and support in BA system labs

  • Systems modelling

  • Efficient interface between business unit´s system design and sub system design

  • Cost estimations and early concept evaluations

As Head of System Design, you and your team will define next generation products based on our platform products. All with the main purpose to secure efficient and timely product development, quality and customer satisfaction.

BA Surveillance Design organisation ensures continuous improvements of development processes, methods and tools across the business area. It holds a capability to own and develop common core platforms defined by BA Surveillance platform strategy and a mandate to enforce integration of common platforms in end products.

To support this, it also holds a capability to drive overall architectural alignment of products, enabling ease of integration. Additionally, it is responsible for development environments Technical leadership and our SW Transformation.

Your profile

For this role, we are looking for someone who likes to develop and challenging themselves as well as our organisation and our products.

To be successful in this position you need to have the ability to motivate and engage others but also be able to organize, prioritize and take decisions to improve performance and profitability. You demonstrate a strong drive, collaboration skills, commitment, tenacity and ability to motivate and engage people around you.

 We also like you to have:

  • Passion for technical innovation

  • Strong product development experience

  • Ability to build relationships cross Surveillance within the system engineering community

  • Appropriate technical knowledge within System Engineering in general

You have a degree in Engineering or similar and communicates fluently in Swedish and English.

Last but not least, you have the ability to support and boost a collaborative work environment with transparency, respect and trust.

This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.

What you will be a part of

Behind our innovations stand the people who make them possible. Brave pioneers and curious minds. Everyday heroes and inventive troubleshooters. Those who share deep knowledge and those who explore sky-high. And everyone in between. 

Joining us means making an impact together, contributing in our own unique ways. From crafting complex code and building impressive defence and security solutions to simply sharing a coffee with a colleague, every action counts. We encourage you to take on challenges, to create smart inventions and grow in our friendly and tech-savvy workspace. We have a solid mission to keep people and society safe.

Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 25,500 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. Read more about us here

Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.