Senior Principle Hardware Lead

BAE Systems
Huntsville, AL, United States
19 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
10 years minimum
Compensation
$136,000.0 - $231,200.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Agile Methodology Computer Engineering Pcb Layout

Requirements

  • BSEE with 10 years and commensurate experience leading engineering teams
  • Proven experience in developing, implementing, and monitoring project schedules, budgets, and productivity metrics to ensure efficient team performance
  • Experience leading a team to include, but are not limited to: Electrical and Mechanical engineers, technicians, designers, and PCB layout (Multi-disciplinary)
  • Experience with design and development of products and services
  • Ability to obtain a DoD Security Clearance

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

  • Current DoD Security Clearance
  • Experience implementing established Hardware Engineering design processes to achieve product quality and consistency
  • Sound interpersonal communication skills involving interfacing with company personnel, customers, and suppliers
  • Experience supporting new business capture and proposal teams with development of hardware engineering cost/schedule estimates
  • Ability to develop and implement design solutions, processes, and systems within budget and schedule requirements
  • Knowledge/experience with complex electrical and printed circuit board designs & developments
  • Knowledge/experience with opto-mechanical designs & developments
  • Knowledge/experience with missile seeker development
  • Experience with lasers, optics, and/or related IR technologies
  • Experience with RF technologies design
  • Experience designing for manufacturability
  • Experience with Model Based Engineering (MBE)
  • Experience with Agile development processes
  • Certification for Earned Value Management System (EVMS) project management technique

Benefits & conditions

Full-Time Salary Range: $136000 - $231200

Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.

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.

About the company

Looking for an exciting career that utilizes your boundless creativity, technical innovation, and leadership skills? We Protect Those Who Protect Us is our mission, and we re looking for engineers who share our passion in developing first-of-its-kind technologies and equipment to protect our warfighters on all fronts. From our modern Huntsville, AL facility, our Electronic Systems Hardware Engineering organization welcomes an energetic and motivated senior-level engineering lead to help drive our multi-discipline project teams and our record of product excellence. Have a background in Electrical Engineering developing hardware solutions for customers? Willing to learn and collaborate with an expansive team of world class professionals? With a flexible work environment including a 9/80 work schedule and competitive benefits, come join us today and see the opportunities in store for you!

From around the globe, our employees work on the world s most advanced electronics from detecting threats for F-35 pilots to illuminating the night for soldiers. Spanning air, land, sea, and space, we are developing the technology of tomorrow, delivered today. Drawing strength from our diversity, we re innovating for the future. And you can, too. Our engineers are the staple of our company and we re more than 5,000 strong. With our robust offering of educational and career development opportunities, your chances to grow are limitless. Our work culture provides you a chance to change the world without giving up your personal life. Sound like a team you want to be a part of? Come and advance your career with BAE Systems.

Within our growing Hardware Engineering community, you ll have the opportunity to work on technology focused programs within our Precision Strike and Countermeasure & Electromagnetic Attack Solutions (CEMA) businesses. Here, we turn ideas into products ranging from electro-optic and laser technologies to state-of-the-art RF solutions that protect our nation s airborne platforms. As a Hardware Lead, you ll have opportunity to own the engineering technical, cost, and schedule aspects of our projects with the freedom to lead and shape teams consisting of talented electrical, mechanical, optical, RF, as well as firmware engineers and designers. You ll actively partner with a wider team of dedicated program engineers and business leads to develop and deliver truly amazing hardware solutions designed to survive the harshest of environmental conditions. Embracing a design it right the first time philosophy, we focus on factors including affordability, manufacturing, quality, and reliability in order to exceed our customer expectations every day.

So apply today and join us for an engineering career full of technical challenges, diversity, and satisfaction and see for yourself why our employees proudly average more than 12 years of service!

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 onsite and remotely.

“Please note that pursuant to a government contract, this specific position requires US citizenship

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