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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Systems Engineer, Anti Tamper - **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), Hardware Design, Software Engineering, Software Requirements Analysis, Verification and Validation (Software), Systems Architecture, Systems Integration, MagicDraw - **Published:** September 23, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=998fe8c9c25c46da ## About the Role * 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 Charter: Deter. Impede. Detect. Respond. 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. 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 ## Related Videos - [Security Pitfalls for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/726-security-pitfalls-for-software-engineers) - [Quantum Computing - The tiny and the big challenges](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/934-quantum-computing-the-tiny-and-the-big-challenges) - [Playing Pong on a shoulder press machine](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100140-playing-pong-on-a-shoulder-press-machine) - [Model Based Systems Engineering in an Agile Product Development Process](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/68-model-based-systems-engineering-in-an-agile-product-development-process) - [The future of automotive mobility: Upcoming E/E architectures, V2X and its challenges](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/374-the-future-of-automotive-mobility-upcoming-e-e-architectures-v2x-and-its-challenges) - [Agent Smith Gets Hardware: Autonomous IoT Hacking From Debug Port to Cloud API](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100258-agent-smith-gets-hardware-autonomous-iot-hacking-from-debug-port-to-cloud-api) ## Related Articles - [Software Engineer Career: Things You Should Know](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/143-software-engineer-career-things-you-should-know) - [What is Software Engineering?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/289-what-is-software-engineering) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [9 Ways to Make Money Hacking](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/333-9-ways-to-make-money-hacking) - [What Jobs Can You Get with a Software Engineering Degree?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/398-what-jobs-can-you-get-with-a-software-engineering-degree) - [Is Software Engineering Hard?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/448-is-software-engineering-hard)