Chief Engineer for RF Space Payloads

BAE Systems•Merrimack, NH

7d•$149,603 - $254,317•Onsite

About The Position

BAE Systems is seeking a self-motivated engineering leader to join its Systems Engineering Management team as a Chief Engineer for RF space payloads. The Chief Engineer serves as the technical conscience of a project or product family and owns the technical solution, ensuring the systems, products, and services developed and delivered are viable, fit for purpose, and satisfy customer needs, requirements, and mission or application objectives. The role is the primary technical interface to Program, Engineering, Functional, and Executive leadership, and engages with customers and program management. The Chief Engineer leads system architecture design and optimization, trades, and analyses; ensures designs meet technical requirements and customer and mission needs within allocated engineering cost and schedule; and confirms designs are realizable, maintainable, supportable, and testable. The role also drives technical risk and opportunity definition, identification, and mitigation or realization, and assesses technical issues and develops plans for mitigation, minimization, and closure. The position is based in Merrimack, New Hampshire, and may require collaboration with staff across BAE Systems business areas and U.S. facilities. Most responsibilities are performed full-time on site because of the need for consistent in-person collaboration, with occasional hybrid work possible depending on program phase. The listed full-time salary range is $149,603–$254,317.

Requirements

Must currently possess an active Secret clearance and be able to possess a Top Secret clearance.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent experience in a relevant field and at least 10 years of related, proven experience successfully leading systems engineering activities; or a Master of Science in Engineering or a related field and at least 8 years of related experience.
Prior experience leading a medium-sized team of 6–10 systems engineers.
Experience performing systems engineering across the development cycle, including requirements analysis, decomposition, derivation, and allocation; system modeling and simulation; system design and development; and system integration and test.
Familiarity with Software Defined Radios (SDR) and radar applications.
Working experience with technical performance measurements and cost account management.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience interfacing with upper management and customers.

Nice To Haves

Active DoD Top Secret clearance and eligibility to acquire additional SAP/SAR clearance.
Working experience with SDRs and radar applications.
Experience working on space payloads.
Experience with system analysis techniques such as link budget, latency, calibration, timing, and synchronization.
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 a Ph.D. and 9 years of experience.
Working experience with model-based systems engineering principles and MagicDraw.
Familiarity or experience with Agile Systems Engineering.

Responsibilities

Lead system architecture design and optimization activities, trades, and analyses.
Ensure system design and implementation meet technical requirements and customer and mission needs within allocated engineering cost and schedule.
Ensure system designs are realizable, maintainable, supportable, and testable.
Drive technical risk and opportunity definition, identification, and mitigation or realization.
Serve as the technical interface to customers, the Program Management Office, and executive leadership.
Understand requirements, missions, use cases, and constraints.
Assess technical risks and issues, including impacts, and develop mitigation, minimization, and closure plans.
Own the technical solution for a project or product family and ensure delivered systems, products, and services are viable and fit for purpose.