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# Sr. Pincipal System Security Engineer, Anti Tamper

- **Company:** BAE Systems
- **Location:** Nashua, NH, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $149,603.0 - $254,317.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, System Configuration, Firmware, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Secure Coding, Software Requirements Analysis, Systems Architecture, Systems Integration, MagicDraw
- **Published:** September 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=4f7a97b9d127e8d8

## About the Role

* Understanding systems engineering techniques and processes and requires a bachelor's degree plus 8 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
 + Technical Writing

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

 * 10 or more years of 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
 * Applying secure coding practices, securing operating systems, and virtualization
 * Implementing and configuring security protocols
 * Attack and countermeasure analysis
 * Model-Based Systems Engineering using Cameo or MagicDraw
 * Developing positive customer relationships
 * Product design development and design analysis for manufacturability and maintainability
 * Technical engineering leadership
 * Integration and Verification and Validation event conduct

## Description

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.

In this role you will be a key technical subject matter expert, providing technial leadership to a group of engineers as well as interfacing with internal and external customers fostering collaborative and technical relationships.

Our Systems Engineers do a lot of amazing things, but for this role in particular you will:

 * 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
 * Perform Technical writing
 * Task planning and some budget ownership


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