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# Systems Engineering Section Lead/Manager (Hybrid)

- **Company:** BAE Systems
- **Location:** Hudson, NH, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $149,603.0 - $254,317.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Systems Engineering, Signals Intelligence, Hardware Design, Systems Development Life Cycle, Software Engineering, Systems Integration
- **Published:** November 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=3043311243-2

## About the Role

* Active Top Secret security clearance and eligible to acquire additional SCI and SAP/SAR clearances
 * Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as Engineering, Mathematics or Computer Science with a minimum work experience of:
 + 12+ Years with BS
 + 10+ Years with MS
 + 8+ Year with PHD
 * Experience as a Functional Manager
 * Leadership skills and experience directing and mentoring engineers on complex programs
 * Expert in effectively documenting, communicating, leading and working with a team on designs, results, reports, and presentations including SRR, PDR and CDR development
 * Experience performing systems engineering activities across the development cycle (analysis/decomposition/derivation/allocation of requirements, system modeling & simulation, system design & development, system integration & test)
 * Experience developing viable concept solutions, identifying and tracking technical risks, and leading technical teams
 * System design experience and product development (System V diagram)
 * Familiarity with RF/SIGINT applications
 * Strong skill in people management and team collaboration within systems engineering and across disciplines
 * Able to evaluate root cause and timely decision making
 * Able to lead a team to adapt to changes effectively

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

 * M.S. or PHD in related technical field
 * Active TS/SCI security clearance.
 * Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) experience
 * Experience with technical performance measurements and cost account management.
 * Experience with RF/SIGINT system development and test
 * Experience with Agile development

## Description

In Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Systems, you will help develop systems that sense, control, exploit and disseminate actionable information to warfighters supporting a variety of missions. Our employees work on the world's most advanced electronics. Our flexible work environment provides you with a chance to change the world without giving up your personal life. We put our customers first - exemplified by our missions: "We Protect Those Who Protect Us®".

This is a dual role where you will serve as player-coach, where some of your time is allocated to being a manager of engineers and part of your time as a technical contributor/lead. This balance enables you to work on programs and manage your team.

Roles and Responsibilities (Section Lead):
Within the Systems Engineering Section, you will manage a team of engineers. As the section manager of systems engineers, you will have the following responsibilities:

 * Recruit, retain, train, recognize and develop systems engineers to achieve their highest potential in alignment with the business needs
 * Assign team members as appropriate to programs, IRADs and proposals
 * Develop individual and group goals and objectives
 * Communicate flow-down company, business area and discipline information
 * Mentor careers by development of career and training plans
 * Ensure group members adhere to BAE Systems' cultural principals, policies and vision

Roles and Responsibilities (Technical Contributor/Leader):
As a technical contributor/leader, you will be involved in the full systems lifecycle from requirements, algorithm, software and hardware development through integration and testing. Duties include:

 * Providing system engineering content and work products, which includes developing the requirements baseline, design, integration and fielding of this capability.
 * Utilizing digital engineering and model-based systems engineering
 * Provides support to the EVMS including budgeting, reporting and task assignments.
 * Interface with Systems Engineering and Software Development Teams
 * Implementing Integration and test to validate requirements
 * Problem/anomaly reporting, tracking and resolution
 * Supports field test preparation and performance
 * Proposal preparation including technical and cost.