Job Description

BAE Systems is looking for a Hardware Design Quality Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will serve as an assurance partner with engineering by influencing and providing technical guidance on design quality assurance and design for manufacturability. Through early engagement in the design and development phase, the successful candidate will influence the adoption of engineering best practices to identify and eliminate defects early in the product lifecycle. This person will ensure product designs meet customer, quality, and reliability requirements and align to factory and supplier capabilities. This position will be responsible for supporting hardware designs and digital hardware architectures for all products and may also provide some development support for hardware engineering teams.
A Hardware Design Quality Engineer will typically fulfill the following responsibilities:

• Quality Planning & Execution: Contribute to hardware design quality assurance project bid estimates and tailor against contract requirements to develop and execute the hardware design quality assurance plan.
• Requirements Validation: Ensure internal and external product requirements are understood, validated, and properly traced to design, implementation, and testing and support qualification testing inclusive of system test set-up conformity, test monitoring, and review of qualification test reports and failure investigation reports.
• Test Solution Design and Validation: Ensure test strategies/solutions are properly designed to qualify products while ensuring factory acceptance tests meet the customer intent.
• Design Reviews: 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.
• Change Control: Ensure proper implementation and validation of design changes.
• APQP/AS9145: Support Advance Product Quality Planning (APQP) activities such as Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (DFMEA) activities and Key Characteristic (KC) identification.
• Design Optimization: Ensure that design guidelines, process and factory capabilities, and best practices such as Design for Manufacturability (DFM) are utilized.
• Risk & Opportunity and Supply Chain Support: Provide input to technical risk and opportunity management and to part and supplier selection to ensure that they meet design, manufacturability, and quality requirements.
• Design Process Compliance and Continuous Improvement: 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.
• Mentorship: Mentor team members in design quality assurance, processes, and regulatory requirements.

Required Skills and Education

• 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
• Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with development teams and stakeholders and provide constructive feedback and mentorship to technical teams
• Ability to influence without authority
• 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
• Design Review experience
• Technical competency:
• Engineering experience with Printed Wiring Board (PWB) and Circuit Card Assembly (CCA) development
• 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 Skills and Education

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering
• Experience in model-based engineering including proficiency in 3D CAD solid modeling
• Proficient in requirement management tools
• Familiarity with DO-254 (for firmware) as required
• Capable of hands-on troubleshooting using engineering lab equipment
• 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

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).