Eng Sr Prin II en BAE Systems

Because this role involves a combination of collaborative/in-person and independent work, it will take the form of a hybrid work format, with time split between working onsite and remotely. 

See what you’re missing. Our employees work on the world’s most advanced electronics – from detecting threats for F-35 pilots to illuminating the night for soldiers. Spanning air, land, sea, and space, we are developing the technology of tomorrow, delivered today. Drawing strength from our differences, we’re innovating for the future. And you can, too. Our flexible work environment provides you a chance to change the world without giving up your personal life. We put our customers first – exemplified by our mission: “We Protect Those Who Protect Us®.” Sound like a team you want to be a part of? Come build your career with BAE Systems.

The Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Systems (C4ISRS) Business Area provides actionable intelligence for our warfighters and decision makers through innovative technical solutions from the seas to the stars. The Space Systems Product Line is a premier provider of advanced high-reliability space electronics and mission systems. Our products have enabled a wide variety of civil, commercial, and national security space missions for over 25 years. We’re leading the way with the development of advanced processing solutions, RF and optical payloads, and cross-domain solutions that enable our customers to deliver mission capability that was previously not achievable.

We are looking for a self-motivated engineering leader to join our Systems Engineering Management team as a Chief Engineer. As a Chief Engineer on a project or product family, you will be the technical conscience of the program, ensuring the system(s), product(s), and service(s) being developed and delivered are viable, fit for purpose, and will satisfy customer needs, product/system requirements, and the mission and/or application. The CE is the primary owner of the technical solution and the technical interface to Program, Engineering, Functional and Executive leadership. Key responsibilities include:

• Technical Solution Definition, Viability and Adequacy:

  • Leads (system) architecture design and optimization activities, trades and analyses

  • Ensures system design and implementation meet technical requirements and customer/mission needs within allocated engineering cost & schedule​

  • Ensures system design is realizable, maintainable, supportable and testable

  • Drives technical risk and opportunity definition, identification, and mitigation/realization

• Technical interface to Customer, PMO and executive leadership:

  • Understand requirements, missions, use cases, and constraints

  • Technical risks and issues including impact assessment, mitigation, minimization and closure plans

This position is based out of our Hudson NH and Merrimack NH facilities in the Northeast.  Because of the need for consistent, in-person collaboration and the nature of this particular role, it will be performed full-time on site.

BAE Systems offers competitive pay, benefits, and important work-life balance initiatives including every other Friday Off, Flextime, and Telecommuting. BAE also believes in a culture of recognition for the extraordinary contributions of our skilled employees.  Our engineers are the lifeblood of our company and we’re more than 5,000 strong. With our robust offering of educational and career development opportunities, your chances to grow are limitless.  At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.

• Active DoD Top Secret/SCI Clearance and eligible to acquire additional SAP/SAR clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (or equivalent experience in a relevant field) with a minimum of 15 years of related, proven experience successfully leading system engineering activities; or a Master of Science in Engineering or related field and minimum of 10 years of related experience.
• Prior experience leading a medium to large size team of System Engineers.
• Experience performing systems engineering activities across the development cycle (analysis/decomposition/derivation/allocation of requirements, system modeling & simulation, system design & development, system integration & test).
• Familiarity with Software Defined Radios (SDR) and communications applications.
• Working experience with technical performance measurements and cost account management.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including experience interfacing with upper management; customer facing.

• Bid and proposal experience on major life cycle programs.
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering or a related engineering discipline and 11 years of experience or Ph.D. with 9 years of experience.
• Experience with customer/stakeholder communication, management, relationship building, and customer satisfaction.
• Experience with Model Based System Engineering or other mature System/Software design processes.
• Familiarity or experience with Agile Systems Engineering
• Chief Engineer experience with RF Payloads, integration, and qualification