Hardware Design Quality Engineer

BAE Systems•Nashua, NH

2d•$118,095 - $200,762•Onsite

About The Position

As part of our Precision Strike Quality Organization, you’ll join a diverse group of driven professionals who design the products and systems that support enhanced military capabilities, protect national security, and keep critical information and infrastructure secure. With us, you’ll be able to make an impact while you hone your skills and grow in your career. BAE Systems is looking for a Hardware Design Quality Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will serve as an assurance partner with engineering by influencing and providing technical guidance on design quality assurance and design for manufacturability. Through early engagement in the design and development phase, the successful candidate will influence the adoption of engineering best practices to identify and eliminate defects early in the product lifecycle. This person will ensure product designs meet customer, quality, and reliability requirements and align to factory and supplier capabilities. This position will be responsible for supporting hardware designs and digital hardware architectures for all products and may also provide some development support for hardware engineering teams.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field of study and 4-6+ years of experience
Capable of obtaining a U.S. Department of War (DoW) Secret security clearance
Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with development teams and stakeholders and provide constructive feedback and mentorship to technical teams
Ability to influence without authority
Strong problem solving and risk management skills leveraged to ensure that the solutions meet the needs of the business and the warfighter
Experience in hardware development life cycle including requirements capture and verification, design and development, and sub-level and system level integration and testing including understanding the purpose of tests and method to validate
Design Review experience
Engineering experience with Printed Wiring Board (PWB) and Circuit Card Assembly (CCA) development
Familiarity with both thermal and structural testing and analysis
Understanding of requirements decomposition from system requirements to electrical engineering requirements
Experience with Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software
Understanding of environmental and ESS testing/approval/release processes and IPC/workmanship standards
Understanding of requirements decomposition from system requirements to mechanical engineering requirements
Understanding and use of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) and standard tolerancing schemes for mechanical prints

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in Engineering
Experience in model-based engineering including proficiency in 3D CAD solid modeling
Proficient in requirement management tools
Familiarity with DO-254 (for firmware) as required
Capable of hands-on troubleshooting using engineering lab equipment
Knowledge of military aerospace testing standards
Experience with AS9145 APQP (DFMEA, PFMEA, and Control Plan development)
Familiarity with Quality Sciences (8D/RCCA and Lean Six Sigma methodologies) and AS9100/ISO 9001 standards
Experience with JIRA or equivalent workflow management
Experience in aerospace and defense, automotive, or medical industry

Responsibilities

Contribute to hardware design quality assurance project bid estimates and tailor against contract requirements to develop and execute the hardware design quality assurance plan.
Ensure internal and external product requirements are understood, validated, and properly traced to design, implementation, and testing and support qualification testing inclusive of system test set-up conformity, test monitoring, and review of qualification test reports and failure investigation reports.
Ensure test strategies/solutions are properly designed to qualify products while ensuring factory acceptance tests meet the customer intent.
Participate in and influence outcome of design reviews and provide constructive design related feedback on engineering documentation including engineering models, test plans, and other development artifacts.
Ensure proper implementation and validation of design changes.
Support Advance Product Quality Planning (APQP) activities such as Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (DFMEA) activities and Key Characteristic (KC) identification.
Ensure that design guidelines, process and factory capabilities, and best practices such as Design for Manufacturability (DFM) are utilized.
Provide input to technical risk and opportunity management and to part and supplier selection to ensure that they meet design, manufacturability, and quality requirements.
Ensure compliance to design processes, collect and analyze design quality metrics, and cross-pollinate hardware design best practices across programs to facilitate a culture of continuous improvement.
Mentor team members in design quality assurance, processes, and regulatory requirements.