- Senior
- Bureau à Merrimack
Job Description
BAE Systems is looking for an experienced Scientist to join our advanced R&D arm, FAST Labs. The focus of the Scientist career path is the technical leadership of research and development projects, defining, capturing, and executing contract 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3 research and development programs. Scientists are expected to grow to become world-class experts whose technical expertise is sought out by our customers. Scientists are expected to be well-known in their technical community and actively engaged with the research community outside of BAE Systems. Scientists use their position, reputation, and technical expertise to create and lead research programs that advance technology for purposes of providing discriminating capabilities for BAE Systems. Scientists focus on 1) technical leadership of programs as the principal investigator; 2) the capture of new business opportunities as the technical lead; and 3) guiding the strategic planning of technology to coordinate investments, captures, and program execution towards overall BAE Systems business objectives. When called on, a Scientist may be an individual contributor, a team leader, or the Program Engineering Manager on a project.
A Scientist may be program manager on a small programs, e.g. a seedling effort. Scientists are expected to have quantitative new business capture objectives, focused on new business pursuits and the capture of follow-up work to the seedling efforts they lead. Scientists are expected to have significant customer interaction, initiating customer contact to create new business opportunities. Scientists are expected to be entrepreneurial in the creation, shaping, capture, and promotion of CRAD for groundbreaking technologies for current and future BAE Systems products including RF/Radio Frequency and EO/IR domains. Scientists are expected to provide strategic guidance to programs and to portfolios of programs to align technology development to business needs. Scientists may participate in program transition planning.
Because of the need for consistent, in-person collaboration and/or the requirement to perform all work onsite due to the nature of this particular role, it will be performed full-time on site. This means work will be conducted on location at a BAE Systems facility 100% of the time.
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- Experienced leading the design, development, execution and implementation of novel, state-of-the-art scientific solutions to complex technical problems.
- Ability to guide team in executing complex research plans with RF, radio frequency, and EO/IR technology
- Experienced in defining, proposing and leading independent research and development efforts.
- Experienced as a project principal investigator for complex research effort (10+ people).
- Ability to coordinate technical project performance with program leadership.
- Perform as a significant contributor to the business development process, especially with conceiving of novel and innovative ideas for new customers.
- Experienced in bidding and winning new business.
- Experienced in multi-function RF, Radio Frequency and/or multi-spectral technologies.
- Experienced in EW, communications, radar and/or signal/image processing technology.