Chief Engineer - EO/IR Systems
About The Position
What is it like working for a company whose mission is “We Protect Those Who Protect Us®”, with some of the most brilliant technical minds, developing the world’s most advanced airborne Electro-Optical Infrared (EO/IR) systems? Rewarding. As part of our Advanced Optical Systems team, you’ll join a diverse group of driven professionals who architect, design, develop, build, integrate, test, and support products and systems that enable our service men and women to execute their missions and return home safely. We are looking for a self-motivated engineering leader to join our Countermeasures and Electromagnetic Attack Solutions (CEMA) business area as a Chief Engineer on cutting edge, next generation EO/IR systems. As a Chief Engineer on a project or product family, you are the technical conscience of the program, ensuring the system(s), product(s), and service(s) being developed and delivered are viable, fit for purpose, and will satisfy customer needs, product/system requirements, and the mission and/or application. The Chief Engineer is the primary owner of the technical solution and the technical interface to Program, Engineering, Functional and Executive leadership. See what you’re missing. CEMA develops and fields world class active and passive optical electronic warfare systems. We welcome all those who have big ideas, crave innovation, want to drive fielding velocity, and have the passion to bring the warfighter home safe. With a 9/80 work schedule, our flexible work environment provides you a chance to change the world without giving up your personal life. We put our customers first – exemplified by our mission: “We Protect Those Who Protect Us®.” Sound like a team you want to be a part of? Come build your career with BAE Systems.
Requirements
- US Citizenship
- Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent experience in a relevant field) with a minimum work experience of: 10+ Years with BS 8+ Years with MS/PhD
- Possess an active US Government security clearance, Secret or higher, SCI eligible
- Minimum 5 years of technical experience with EO/IR systems
- Leadership skills and experience directing and mentoring engineers on programs
Nice To Haves
- 10+ years of experience as an engineering leader in the development of EO/IR systems
- Experience with technical performance measurements
- Model based systems engineering experience with tools such as MagicDraw
- Experience with EO/IR systems such as passive sensors, precision pointing devices, and lasers, and their associated concepts
- Active US Government security clearance, Top Secret, SCI eligible
- Expertise in System Architectures
- Expert in effectively documenting, communicating, leading and working with a team on designs, results, reports, and presentations.
- Experience performing systems engineering activities across the development cycle (analysis/decomposition/derivation/allocation of requirements, system modeling & simulation, system design & development, system integration & test) through production
- Experience developing viable concept solutions, identifying and tracking technical risks, and leading technical teams
Responsibilities
- Understand requirements, missions, use cases, and constraints
- Define the technical solution, viability, and adequacy
- Lead system architecture design and optimization activities, trades and analyses
- Ensure system design and implementation meet technical requirements and customer / mission needs within allocated engineering cost & schedule
- Ensure system design is realizable, maintainable, supportable and testable
- Drive technical risk and opportunity definition, identification, and mitigation/realization
- Be the technical interface to our customer, PMO and executive leadership
- Collaborate with our FAST Labs R&D organization to plan and transition new technologies into the business area.
Benefits
- health, dental, and vision insurance
- health savings accounts
- a 401(k) savings plan
- disability coverage
- life and accident insurance
- employee assistance program
- a legal plan
- discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance
- paid time off
- paid holidays
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
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