Full Job Description
BAE Systems, Precision Guidance and Sensing Solutions (PGSS) Product Line within the Precision Strike (PS) Business Area is seeking a Senior Systems Engineering Team Lead who possesses a skilled Radar background to support our SureStrike™ Radar Seeker development programs, which span Active Radar, Semi-active Radar, and multi-modal solutions. The successful candidate will plan, execute and manage a geographically distributed team during the implementation of system processes, conduct of System and Subsystem internal and field test events, development of test and tactical hardware and software, and identification/allocation of new requirements for next generation, affordable mass missile seekers.
This role will be staffed in Huntsville, AL. In Huntsville, our Engineering team is working in a recently opened state-of-the-art facility and operating in a unique environment where we have the power and resources of BAE Systems behind us while working in a dynamic and flexible model. At BAE Systems, we are looking for team players who have demonstrated experience working successfully in a Technical Team Lead setting.
Because this role involves a combination of collaborative/in-person and independent work, it will take the form of a hybrid work format, with time split between working primarily onsite with some remote potential. Travel is estimated at 10%, namely to support program test event milestones.
This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days. The posting will remain active until the position is filled, or a qualified pool of candidates is identified.
Required Skills and Education
• Active Secret security clearance
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or Computer Science and a minimum of 6 years' applicable experience
• Direct experience in two or more Radar engineering activities to include analysis, hardware/software design, prototyping, integration, test, and/or verification
• Must have experience as a Systems Engineer
• Must have experience leading technical teams
• Experience identifying, delegating, tracking, and reporting team tasks
Preferred Skills and Education
• Hold an active Top Secret security clearance
• Advanced radar theoretical knowledge, with balanced understanding of practical Radar hardware and software architectures and tactical implementation
• Knowledge and willingness to lead Earned-Value Management (EVM) and Control Account Management (CAM) responsibilities
• Possess an agile mindset, to include Agile-Scrum principles, practices, processes, tools and techniques
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with Senior leadership and other engineering disciplines
• Exposure to technical performance measurements
• Experience developing and flowing down requirements to testable and modular hardware and software designs
• Experience in identifying and tracking technical risks
• Excels at problem solving, with the ability to produce concrete results despite significant ambiguities in the problem space
• Skilled in developing and using analysis tools such as MATLAB, Simulink, Python, VBA, C/C++ on Windows and/or Linux
• Experience in Digital Engineering and Model Based Systems Engineering, to include industry-accepted tools, e.g., Cameo, DOORS
• Fundamental understanding of the Electro-Optical Infrared (EOIR) technical domain and sensor solutions is a plus
• Comfortable in a lab setting working with a combination of both hardware and software
• MS degree in Systems Engineering or related technical field
• Experience with missile or smart munitions design, development, and fielding