Dir I- Technical

BAE Systems•Merrimack, NH

7d•Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for a self-motivated engineering leader to join our Countermeasures and Electromagnetic Attack Solutions (CEMA) business area as a Chief Engineer on cutting edge, next generation EO/IR systems. As part of our Advanced Optical Systems (AOS) team, you’ll join a diverse group of driven professionals who architect, design, develop, build, integrate, test, and support products and systems that enable our service men and women to execute their missions and return home safely. The AOS portfolio of programs takes early-TRL technology and matures early-TRL technology into deployable systems that provide our service members with a decisive advantage. You’ll contribute to all phases of development, from architecture and design to testing and field support. As a Chief Engineer on a project or product family, you are 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 Chief Engineer is the primary owner of the technical solution and the technical interface to Program, Engineering, Functional and Executive leadership.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree (or equivalent experience in a relevant field) with a minimum work experience of: 12+ years with BS 10+ years with MS/PhD
Possess an active US Government Secret (or higher) security clearance, SCI eligible
Minimum 10 years of technical experience with EO/IR systems such as passive sensors, precision pointing devices, lasers, and their associated concepts
Expert in effectively documenting, communicating, leading and working with a team on designs, results, reports, and presentations
10+ years of experience as an engineering leader in the development of EO/IR systems
Experience with technical performance measurements
model based systems engineering experience with tools such as MagicDraw
Active US Government Top Secret security clearance
Expertise in System Architectures
Experience performing systems engineering activities across the development cycle (analysis/decomposition/derivation/allocation of requirements, system modeling & simulation, system design & development, system integration & test) through production
Experience developing viable concept solutions, identifying and tracking technical risks, and leading technical teams on complex programs

Responsibilities

Understand requirements, missions, use cases, and constraints
Define the technical solution, viability, and adequacy
Lead system architecture design and optimization activities, trades and analyses
Ensure system design and implementation meet technical requirements and customer / mission needs within allocated engineering cost & schedule
Ensure system design is realizable, maintainable, supportable, and testable
Drive technical risk and opportunity definition, identification, and mitigation/realization
Be the technical interface to our customer, Program Management Office, and executive leadership
Collaborate with our FAST Labs R&D organization to plan and transition new technologies into the business area