Hardware Development Lead

BAE Systems • Huntsville, AL

82d • $133,333 - $226,667 • Hybrid

About The Position

Looking for an exciting career that utilizes your boundless creativity, technical innovation, and leadership skills? "We Protect Those Who Protect Us" is our mission, and we're looking for engineers who share our passion in developing first-of-its-kind technologies and equipment to protect our warfighters on all fronts. From our modern Huntsville, AL facility, our Electronic Systems Hardware Engineering organization welcomes an energetic and motivated senior-level engineering lead to help drive our multi-discipline project teams and our record of product excellence. Have a background in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering developing hardware solutions for customers? Willing to learn and collaborate with an expansive team of world class professionals? Fantastic! With a flexible work environment including a 9/80 work schedule and competitive benefits, come join us today and see the opportunities in store for you! From around the globe, 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 diversity, we're innovating for the future. And you can, too. Our engineers are the staple 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. Our work culture provides you a chance to change the world without giving up your personal life. Sound like a team you want to be a part of? Come build your career with BAE Systems. Within our growing Hardware Engineering community, you'll have the opportunity to work on technology focused programs within our Precision Strike and Countermeasure & Electromagnetic Attack Solutions (CEMA) businesses. Here, we turn ideas into products ranging from electro-optic and laser technologies to state of the art RF solutions that protect our nation's airborne platforms. As a Hardware Lead, you'll have opportunity to own the engineering technical, cost, and schedule aspects of our projects with the freedom to lead and shape teams consisting of talented electrical, mechanical, optical, RF, as well as firmware engineers and designers. You'll actively partner with a wider team of dedicated program engineers and business leads to develop and deliver truly amazing hardware solutions designed to survive the harshest of environmental conditions. Embracing a "design it right the first time" philosophy, we focus on factors including affordability, manufacturing, quality, and reliability in order to exceed our customer expectations every day. So apply today and join us for an engineering career full of technical challenges, diversity, and satisfaction and see for yourself why our employees proudly average more than 12 years of service!

Requirements

• BSEE or BSME with 10+ years of experience leading engineering teams.
• Solid technical leadership practices for multi-disciplinary engineering teams.
• Proven experience in developing, implementing, and monitoring project schedules, budgets, and productivity metrics.
• Experience with design and development of products and services using state-of-the-art engineering technologies.
• Ability to obtain a DoD Security Clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge/experience with opto-mechanical designs & developments.
• Knowledge/experience with missile seeker development.
• Experience with lasers, optics, and/or related IR technologies.
• Design of RF technologies.
• Designing for manufacturability.
• Experience with Model Based Engineering (MBE).
• Certification for Earned Value Management System (EVMS) project management techniques.
• Current DoD Security Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Provide project level leadership to ensure successful execution of program plans and accomplishment of engineering department goals.
• Guide teams performing research, development, and consulting assignments of a professional technical nature.
• Lead multi-disciplinary engineering teams engaged in the design and development of state-of-the-art electro-mechanical products.
• Develop, implement, and monitor project schedules, budgets, and productivity metrics.
• Implement established Hardware Engineering design processes to achieve product quality and consistency.
• Interface with company personnel, customers, and suppliers.
• Support new business capture and proposal teams with development of hardware engineering cost/schedule estimates.
• Exercise independent discretion and judgment in the performance of engineering duties.
• Prepare appropriate reports, documents, and presentations for internal/external distribution.
• Develop and implement design solutions, processes, and systems within budget and schedule requirements.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Health savings accounts.
• 401(k) savings plan.
• Disability coverage.
• Life and accident insurance.
• Employee assistance program.
• Legal plan.
• Discounts on home, auto, and pet insurance.
• Paid time off.
• Paid holidays.
• Paid parental leave.
• Paid military leave.
• Paid bereavement leave.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees