We are looking for a self-motivated engineering leader to join our Systems Engineering Management team in the Electronic Combat Solutions business area as a Chief Engineer. As a Chief Engineer on a project or product family, you will be the technical conscience of the program, ensuring the system(s), product(s), and service(s) being developed and delivered are viable, fit for purpose, and will satisfy customer needs, product/system requirements, and the mission and/or application. The CE is the primary owner of the technical solution and the technical interface to Program, Engineering, Functional and Executive leadership. Key responsibilities include: Technical Solution Definition, Viability and Adequacy: Leads (system) architecture design and optimization activities, trades and analyses Ensures system design and implementation meet technical requirements and customer/mission needs within allocated engineering cost & schedule Ensures system design is realizable, maintainable, supportable and testable Drives technical risk and opportunity definition, identification, and mitigation/realization Technical interface to Customer, PMO and executive leadership: Understand requirements, missions, use cases, and constraints Technical risks and issues including impact assessment, mitigation, minimization and closure plans This position will require you to be onsite in either Totowa or Wayne New Jersey. Because of the need for consistent, in-person collaboration and/or the requirement to perform all work onsite due to the nature of this role, it will be performed full-time on site. This means work will be conducted on location at a BAE Systems facility 100% of the time. Required Skills and Education Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent experience in a relevant field) with a minimum work experience of: 10+ Years with BS 8+ Years with MS 6+ Year with PHD Possess an Active US Government security clearance (with ability to possess TS) Experience leading development of Electronic Warfare, RADAR, Communications, and/or Missile systems Experience with EW and/or Radar and Missile Systems Technical leader for significant size team (Chief Engineer, Project Engineering Manager, or equivalent) Preferred Skills and Education M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering or a related engineering discipline and 10+ years of experience 5+ years of experience as a Chief Engineer or equivalent leading development of Electronic Warfare systems Formal Root Cause and Corrective Action training or equivalent experience Model based systems engineering experience with tools such as MagicDraw Active United States security clearance, Top Secret, SCI Eligible Experience with Electronic Warfare systems and RADAR systems #ECSSE