Job Description

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.

Roles and Responsibilities (Team Lead):
You will manage a team of engineers (30-40) supported by functional managers that will report to you. You will report directly to the director of Systems engineering, where he/she will be your guide and mentor. As the SEIT lead of systems engineers, you will have the following responsibilities:

• 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

Roles and Responsibilities (Technical/Leader contributor):
This part of the role, will enable you to participate in developing our EW solutions for our customers. As the system engineering contributor, you can have the following exciting opportunities:

• 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.

You may not have experience in all phases of the product lifecycle, but in this role you will have opportunity to further your existing engineering skills and develop new ones.

Because of the need for consistent, in-person collaboration and/or the requirement to perform all work onsite due to the nature of this particular role, it will be performed full-time onsite.

Required Skills and Education

Required Education, Experience, Skills

• 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

Preferred Skills and Education

Preferred Education, Experience, Skills

• 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

Benefits Information

Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.

Intern Benefits: Temporary employees generally are not eligible for BAE Systems benefits, but can elect to participate in the 401(k) savings plan. Temporary employees working 20+ hours per week are eligible for medical benefits, the employee assistance program, and business travel accident insurance.

Please note: Some benefits may be different for union employees that are governed by a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) or for positions covered by a wage law called the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (SCA).