Hardware Design Quality Engineer

About the role

BAE Systems is seeking a Hardware Design Quality Engineer to join our Precision Strike Quality Organization. This role involves designing products and systems that enhance military capabilities, protect national security, and safeguard critical information and infrastructure.

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, supporting qualification testing inclusive of system test set-up conformity, test monitoring, and review of qualification test reports and failure investigation reports.
• Support Advance Product Quality Planning (APQP) activities such as Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (DFMEA) activities and Key Characteristic (KC) identification.
• 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 technical risk and opportunity management and part and supplier selection to ensure 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.

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.
• Able to effectively communicate and collaborate with development teams and stakeholders and provide constructive feedback and mentorship to technical teams.
• 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.
• Experience in model-based engineering including proficiency in 3D CAD solid modeling.
• 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.

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
• Experience in model-based engineering including proficiency in 3D CAD solid modeling.
• Proficiency in requirement management tools.
• Familiarity with DO-254 (for firmware).
• 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.