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# Principal Systems Engineer, Anti Tamper

- **Company:** BAE Systems
- **Location:** Hudson, 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), Hardware Design, Software Requirements Analysis, Verification and Validation (Software), Systems Architecture, Systems Integration, MagicDraw
- **Published:** September 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/9E5B5CF280164701969135516334BC20/job/

## About the Role

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., * Understanding systems engineering techniques and processes and requires a bachelor s degree plus 4 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
 * Building customer relationships
 * Technical presentations

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

 * 6 plus years or experience in systems engineering 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
 * Hardware integration
 * Conducting verification and validation
 * Implementing and configuring security protocols
 * Attack-countermeasure analysis
 * Model-Based Systems Engineering using Cameo or MagicDraw
 * Developing positive customer relationships
 * Product design development and design analysis for manufacturability and maintainability

## Description

Our Systems Engineers do a lot of amazing things, and in this role you will make impacts in the following ways;

 * Design security architectures based on requirements from your analysis of adversary threats and proposed countermeasures
 * Implement and test security countermeasures according to the guidance provided by the U.S. Government
 * Work with Security State of the Art (S-SOTA) technologies
 * Provide our customers with sophisticated, defense-in-depth security solutions


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