System Engineering Integration and Test (SEIT) Lead/Section Manager

BAE Systems•Nashua, NH

2d•$153,377 - $260,743•Onsite

About The Position

Ready to make a difference? Our employees design, integrate, and test the world’s next generation Electronic Warfare (EW) systems for the United States DoW and international customers. You will be among the brightest minds, working on the aerospace and defense industry’s most difficult problems. We are seeking a highly motivated, experienced and capable engineer to lead our System Engineering Integration and Test (SEIT) team and organization. As the SEIT lead you will be integral in transforming this system engineering leadership team to meet the needs of our business and our customers. We welcome all those who have big ideas, crave innovation, and want to develop, build and work on the world’s most advanced electromagnetic spectrum operations systems – detecting, locating and countering threats for US and international aircrew. We develop highly sophisticated digital Electronic Warfare (EW) systems and are looking for motivated and positive minded engineers, skilled in EW product development that will move us into the future. We put our customers first – exemplified by our mission: “We Protect Those Who Protect Us®.” Come build your career with us. This role is intended to be a dual role; as an Engineering People Leader Role and a Technical Contributor. You will not only lead a team, but you will be able to participate on programs as a contributor. This managed balance enables you to keep your skills sharp as you work on programs as a contributor and manage your systems engineering team. In this model, you can fulfill your desire to be a leader and progress your technical skills as you work to develop our EW products.

Requirements

Active DoD Secret security clearance
Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science/Computer Engineering and 12+ years of work experience or 10+ years with an engineering Masters degree
Experience with Systems engineering development of RF EW system
RF EW system design experience and product development (System V diagram)
Technical team leadership
Strong skill in people management and team collaboration within systems engineering and across the disciplines
Able to evaluate root cause and enact timely decision making
Able to lead a team to adapt to changes efficiently

Nice To Haves

M.S. in either Systems, Software, or Electrical Engineering.
Active DoD Top Secret security clearance.
Additional technical depth in specific areas of EW such as Electronic Attack (EA) or Electronic Support Measures (ESM)
Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) experience.
GenAI engineering application
System Performance Modeling

Responsibilities

Manage a team of engineers (30-40) supported by functional managers that will report to you.
Expand the vision of system engineering leadership to optimize this teams performance in directing system program technical execution
Build the SEIT team to lead system engineers within their programs to meet cost, schedule and performance requirements
Utilize data and metrics to track team performance and make course corrections as needed
As a senior member of the systems engineering staff help to shape the future of systems engineering to optimize performance
Know and champion the application of the system engineering process, methods, resources (e.g. tools & people) and culture with your team
Drive the adoption of new methods such as digital engineering, GenAI and model-based engineering to increase efficiency and product quality
Recruit, retain, train, recognize and develop systems engineers to achieve their highest potential in alignment with the business needs
Assign team members as appropriate to programs, IRADs and proposals
Regularly meet with your teams to flow-down company, business area and system engineering information. Share system engineering processes, methods, tools and norms with your team
Ensure group members adhere to BAE Systems' cultural principals, policies and vision
As a program SEIT, lead a program system engineering team in executing the development of EW system across the product lifecycle
Participate in product capture and proposals, product design, trade studies, requirements derivation and allocation
Prepare, conduct and lead design reviews
Create engineering development plans
Develop product architectural design models, performance models and tools
Lead or participate in system integration, verification and test
Support to our product sustainment
Direct or participate in testing our products at customer and USG test facilities
Support the build of our products our factories.