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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Systems Engineer - **Company:** BAE Systems - **Location:** Nashua, NH, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $118,095.0 - $200,762.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Systems Engineering, System Configuration, Firmware, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Secure Coding, Software Engineering, Software Requirements Analysis, Systems Architecture, Systems Integration, MagicDraw - **Published:** August 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gmn5k2 ## About the Role + This role involves understanding systems engineering techniques and processes and requires a bachelor s degree plus four or more years of work experience. + Additional critical skills include: + Writing System Requirements + Defining System Architectures + Integrating Hardware and Software + Validating and Verifying the delivered solution + Leading an Engineering Team Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills We are very interested in candidates with 6 plus years or experience and any of the following experience: + Cryptographic algorithm implementation + Configuring security features of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) S-SOTA components + Firmware development for COTS S-SOTA components such as Xilinx or Microsemi FPGAs + Applying secure coding practices, securing operating systems, and virtualization + Implementing and configuring security protocols + Model-Based Systems Engineering using Cameo or MagicDraw + Developing positive customer relationships + Product design development and design analysis for manufacturability and maintainability ## Description Our Mission: Safeguard the United States' most critical technologies from exploitation to maintain our battlefield pre-eminence. Our Need: Creative and innovative engineers with prior systems, hardware, or software engineering experience with the potential to outthink world class reverse engineers. In a modern approach to Spy vs Spy, BAE Systems uses state-of-the-art technology, advanced mathematics, and physics in novel ways to protect our systems and provide our customers with capability that endures. Our engineers design solutions that achieve the optimum balance between product capability and defense-in-depth security. They apply all the lessons learned to our model-based design approach and frequently advance security state-of-the-art. They take their creative and innovative spirit to the extreme by playing the part of adversary through their identification of attack vectors. They propose countermeasures that provide the greatest protection at the best value for the system s entire lifecycle. BAE Systems is currently seeking creative, innovative problem solvers who are able to analyze, assess, anticipate, defend, and react to current and future attacks. Candidates should be capable of working in a team environment designing and implementing innovative protection schemes with rapidly evolving technologies used in various applications throughout the company. BAE Systems salary and benefits include 401(k) matching, employee discount programs, and work schedule flexibility such as alternating Fridays off. 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