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BAE Systems System Engineering Lead EW / EA in Totowa, New Jersey

Job Description

Ready to make a difference? Our employees design, integrate, and test the world s next generation communication and electronic warfare systems for the United States DoD and international customers. You will be among the brightest minds, working on the aerospace and defense industry s most difficult problems. This role is for a combined Technical Leadership and Engineering Manager Role.

Our Systems Engineering group is a high-performance technical organization comprised of Electronic Attack (EA) Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) with backgrounds spanning the Engineering Disciplines. The focus of our group is to provide customers a wide range of services and products as the Center of Excellence for EA solutions

We welcome all those who have big ideas, crave innovation, and want to develop, build and work on the world s most advanced electromagnetic spectrum operations systems detecting, locating and countering threats for joint and international aircrew. We develop highly sophisticated digital Electronic Warfare (EW) systems and we are looking for motivated and positive minded engineers highly skilled in Electronic Attack to join cross-functional, multi-disciplinary teams. We put our customers first exemplified by our mission: We Protect Those Who Protect Us. Come build your career with us.

Roles and Responsibilities (Technical):

Key EW program objectives are to improve/enhance air vehicle survivability, through the abilities to detect, deny, deceive, degrade and/or disrupt adversaries Integrated Air Defenses. This position will involve developing new EA capabilities for application in EW systems and performing systems engineering functions such as developing and managing systems level requirements, developing operational systems concepts, performing system architecture trade studies, originating design concepts or performing systems level integration and test for highly complex systems, and preparing and/or delivering basic customer and technical presentations.

  • Track program execution through metrics and technical reviews

  • Provide support to program proposal cost estimates by developing or reviewing Basis of Estimates that including quantified risks and opportunities

  • Participate in independent design reviews, architecture review boards and other technical reviews

  • Develop Roadmaps

Roles and Responsibilities (Functional Manager):

You will manage a small group of staff and hold a technical advisor role on our Tech Advisory Panel. In this role you will promote and help realize the Electronic Attack Capability Group objectives as you lead and build a High-Performance Systems Engineering team.

  • Recruit, retain, train, recognize, develop and assign team members as appropriate to meet business area needs

  • Develop individual and group goals and objectives

  • Communicate flow-down

  • Collect and provide performance feedback

  • Mentor careers by development of career and training plans

  • Ensure group members adhere to BAE Systems' cultural principals, policies and vision

  • Hold position in the EA capability groups Technical Advisory Board

Because of the need for consistent, in-person collaboration and/or the requirement to perform all work onsite due to the nature of this particular role, it will be performed full-time onsite. This means work will be conducted on location at a BAE Systems facility 100% of the time.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

  • Bachelor s Degree and 10 years work experience or equivalent experience

  • Experience with offensive (stand-off/escort) and/or defensive (self-protection) EA systems.

  • EW system design knowledge as it relates to the detection and countering of radar and missile system engagements.

  • Understands EA/ESM systems architectures

  • Experience with systems engineering activities across the development cycle (analysis/decomposition/derivation/allocation of requirements, system modeling & simulation, system design & development, system integration & test).

  • Team Leadership / Functional Manager Experience a plus

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

  • M.S. in either Systems, Software, or Electrical Engineering.

  • Active United States Top Secret security clearance

  • Additional skills within the Electronic Attack (EA)/Electronic Warfare Support (ES) divisions of Electronic Warfare (EW) to include:

  • In-depth understanding of radar signal processing techniques including Electronic Protection (EP).

  • Understands radar operation and employment including cooperative engagements.

  • Understands digital signal processing concepts including FFT and DRFM.

  • Understanding of advanced antenna technologies and performance. Ability to model antenna impacts on received and transmitted signals. Understanding of antenna patterns, polarization, bandwidth, beamwidth etc.

  • Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) Experience

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $147300 - $250400

Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.

Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20 hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including 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.

System Engineering Lead EW / EA

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