Full time

Design Approval Engineer – Defence Industry

Posted by Saab • Australia, South Australia, Australia

📍 Australia, South Australia 🕒 March 03, 2026

About the Role

The role

The Design Approval Engineer (DAE) is a delegated Technical Authority (TA) with responsibility for discharging engineering obligations on behalf of the System Technical Authority (STA). They will independently oversee the engineering activities for allocated subsystems to ensure the delivered subsystems achieve the required integrity, safety and environmental outcomes. Specifically, the DAE will ensure that the relevant subsystem artefacts, engineering CDRLs and services delivered for the combat system's subsystems achieve the standard required for certification.

The DAE will operate within the naval combat systems domain. They will bring extensive engineering experience and expert technical leadership to the program engineering lead team, and will drive high quality culture, continuous improvement and identification of effective solutions to engineering issues.

Further, the successful candidate will:

STA Support:

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