Chief Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a self-motivated engineering leader to join our Countermeasures and Electromagnetic Attack Solutions (CEMA) business area as a Chief Engineer on cutting-edge, next-generation EO/IR systems. As part of our Advanced Optical Systems (AOS) team, you’ll work with brilliant technical minds to architect, design, develop, build, integrate, test, and support products and systems that enable service members to execute their missions and return home safely. The AOS portfolio matures early-TRL technology into deployable systems, providing a decisive advantage to our service members.

As a Chief Engineer, you are the technical conscience of the program, ensuring the system(s), product(s), and service(s) are viable, fit for purpose, and meet customer needs, requirements, and mission objectives. You will own the technical solution and serve as the primary technical interface to program, engineering, functional, and executive leadership.

Responsibilities

• Understand requirements, missions, use cases, and constraints
• Define the technical solution, viability, and adequacy
• Lead system architecture design and optimization activities, trades, and analyses
• Ensure system design and implementation meet technical requirements and customer/mission needs within allocated engineering cost and schedule
• Ensure system design is realizable, maintainable, supportable, and testable
• Drive technical risk and opportunity definition, identification, and mitigation/realization
• Serve as the technical interface to customers, Program Management Office, and executive leadership
• Collaborate with our FAST Labs R&D organization to plan and transition new technologies into the business area

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent experience in a relevant field) with a minimum of 12+ years of work experience (10+ years with MS/PhD)
• Active US Government Secret (or higher) security clearance; SCI eligible
• Minimum 10 years of technical experience with EO/IR systems such as passive sensors, precision pointing devices, lasers, and their associated concepts
• Full-time onsite role in Manchester, NH and/or Merrimack, NH due to the need for consistent, in-person collaboration

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as an engineering leader in the development of EO/IR systems
• Experience with technical performance measurements
• Model-based systems engineering experience with tools such as MagicDraw
• Active US Government Top Secret security clearance
• Expertise in system architectures
• Experience performing systems engineering activities across the development cycle (analysis, decomposition, derivation, allocation of requirements, system modeling & simulation, system design & development, system integration & test) through production
• Experience developing viable concept solutions, identifying and tracking technical risks, and leading technical teams on complex programs

Skills

• Collaborative: You thrive working with a team to realize innovative solutions to complex problems
• Customer-Oriented: You anticipate customer needs and work to exceed their expectations
• Innovative: You constantly seek ways to improve and accelerate processes

Pay

Full-Time Salary Range: $153,377 – $260,743. Individual salaries are determined by factors including business considerations, local market conditions, internal equity, and candidate qualifications such as skills, education, and experience.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Health savings accounts
• 401(k) savings plan
• Disability coverage
• Life and accident insurance
• Employee assistance program and legal plan
• Paid time off, holidays, parental leave, military leave, bereavement leave, and applicable federal/state sick leave
• Company recognition program (monetary or non-monetary awards)
• Discounts on home, auto, and pet insurance
• Other incentives based on position level and job specifics

About the company

BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace, and security company delivering products and services for air, land, and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions, and customer support services. Electronic Systems (ES) is the global innovator behind game-changing defense and commercial electronics, pushing the limits of technology to give customers a competitive edge. With over 14,000 employees, ES impacts global security and communities through cutting-edge solutions.