FAST Labs - Senior Principal Engineer II – Mission Effectiveness Lead

BAE Systems•Merrimack, NH

8d•$146,670 - $249,330•Onsite

About The Position

BAE Systems' Mission Assessments (MA) organization is revolutionizing how mission-level operational analysis is planned, executed, and delivered. The Mission Assessments organization was created to address the rapidly increasing demand for mission-level operational analysis. Our mission is to achieve excellence in multidomain (MDO), systems-of-systems (SoS) Mission Assessments and effectively communicate the value of BAE Systems products to customers, DoD leadership and the warfighter. To do this we must bring together models of advanced technologies, weapons, platforms, and threats in relevant mission simulations – and then apply our deep subject matter expertise and experience to deliver assessments that can change the world. BAE Systems is seeking a highly motivated, experienced Mission Effectiveness Lead to join the Mission Assessments team to provide technical expertise to teams performing operational analysis. A Mission Effectiveness Lead is responsible for working with internal and external customers to understand the requirements, design the approach for an analysis study, lead technical reviews, and be responsible for the technical output. Mission Effectiveness Leads are also responsible for leading Internal Research and Development (IR&D) efforts and participating in internal working groups working to close Mission Level M&S capability gaps. The Mission Effectiveness Lead reports to the MA Technical Director. They work with the MA Tech Director, Mission Area Study Leads, and Study Managers to design operational analysis studies executed by MA Analysts using a wide variety of DoD and BAE-developed modeling, and simulation tools. The Mission Effectiveness Lead should have a deep understanding of mission applicability of BAE Systems technology areas such as integrated Electronic Warfare (EW) systems including Electronic Attack (EA), Electronic Protection (EP) and Electronic Support (ES) for RF sensing, detection, identification, geolocation, and jamming; infrared (IR) imaging, guidance, survivability and targeting; C4ISR for actionable intelligence including SIGINT, EO/IR, Multi-INT, and hyperspectral solutions; and information technologies including fusion and dynamic mission battle management. The ideal Mission Effectiveness Lead candidate has experience with DoD missions, operational analysis or threat analysis, modeling and simulation, and/or EW technologies. Mission Effectiveness Lead candidates should have experience providing leadership and mentoring of teams of junior engineers or analysts, experience presenting technical results to senior leaders, and have experience being responsible for a team’s technical output.

Requirements

Active Secret clearance and ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI and SAP clearances
Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field and 12+ years technical experience (MS and 10+ years preferred).
10+ years technical / engineering leadership experience including performance management, coaching, mentoring and inspiring a technical staff with diverse experience, technical views, and individual differences
Critical thinking skills that will be exercised across multiple levels of detail.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Strong communications skills ranging from technical briefings to executive level presentations.
Experience developing and using analysis tools such as MATLAB, Python, C/C++, or similar tools.
Experience using mission simulation tools such as NGTS, AFSIM, DIADS, JSE, JAAM, EWIR, BRAWLER, STK, TMAP, ESAMS, etc.

Nice To Haves

Active Top Secret / SCI Clearance
Expertise in Electronic Warfare, Weapons, Optics, or Communications
Experience with DoW warfighting operations in any domain
Experience with collaborative Modeling and Simulation environments and the DoD OA community.
Knowledge of mission simulation driven by Model Based Systems Engineering
Knowledge of DevSecOps and DevSecOps pipeline driven by mission simulation-enabled test environments.
Experience with tools, infrastructure, and security constraints of DoD environments.

Responsibilities

Interface with customers, especially product line or business area technical directors and other technical staff, as the primary POC to scope and provide technical leadership for MA studies and tasks
Design and develop mission relevant scenarios; assess operational effectiveness of existing and/or emerging systems and capabilities in representative operational environments
Support the design and development of visualization models for integration with a high fidelity simulation environment used for mission analysis
Take direction from the MA Tech Director and MA Engineering Lead regarding tradecraft, prioritization, and execution of studies
Work with Study Managers to and Study Leads to execute MA studies and tasks
Brief study and task outputs, providing recommendations and expertise to product line and business area tech directors, other BA technical staff, and external customers to help drive technology development and adoption
Work with MA leadership team to identify needed capabilities and set technical roadmaps to fill capability gaps
Build and contribute to IR&D plans, identify IR&D needs and priorities, and lead IR&D technical execution
Provide subject matter expertise to working groups made up of Analysts to solve MA hard problems and fill capability needs
Responsible for growing MA across BAE Systems by inserting MA into external programs, and capturing MA studies from internal product lines