Jobs at BAE Systems, Inc.

Develop RF algorithms and embedded firmware for advanced sensing hardware. Integrate hardware and software, conduct laboratory and field testing, support RF system architecture, and communicate technical results to customers and decision-makers. Contribute to technical solution development, customer-needs translation, opportunity capture, and future technical leadership. Work involves RF isolation, antennas, signal processing, electromagnetic structures, and MBSE-based digital twins using tools such as MATLAB, SystemVue, and MagicDraw.

Develop automated test software and hardware/software integration solutions for electronic warfare systems. Responsibilities include designing test solutions, integrating test software with production test stands, supporting product lifecycle activities, diagnosing RF measurement anomalies, troubleshooting hardware, and resolving production test issues. The role also provides technical leadership, communicates status to program management, collaborates across engineering disciplines, and may lead engineers across multiple projects.

Lead complex facilities capital projects involving building infrastructure, new construction, renovations, tooling installations, and operational improvements. Coordinate executives, engineering, operations, safety, security, finance, supply chain, contractors, suppliers, and regulators. Manage project scope, cost, schedule, risk, lifecycle financial planning, and performance reporting. Mentor project managers, establish best practices, and drive enterprise-wide project management capabilities across multi-site initiatives.

Develops complex avionics control-system architectures and manages hardware, software, and system requirements. Leads embedded electronic control-system design, integration, verification, and validation across the full development lifecycle. Produces technical documentation, supports proposals and cost estimates, presents to customers, and coordinates with internal teams and suppliers. The role may also support reliability, maintainability, availability, integrated logistics, safety-critical development, and MBSE activities for commercial and military aircraft systems.

Leads FPGA design verification for electronic warfare systems by architecting SystemVerilog/UVM or VHDL testbenches, developing constrained-random test plans, analyzing coverage, creating reusable verification IP, and improving verification methodologies. The role leads small to medium teams, mentors junior engineers, manages schedules and task completion, and collaborates with distributed engineering teams. Work is full-time onsite and requires a current Secret clearance or eligibility to obtain one.

Supports industrial engineering initiatives for a defense manufacturing group by analyzing and optimizing production processes, reducing operational costs, tracking performance, and delivering data-driven improvements. Collaborates with experienced engineers and cross-functional teams in a high-stakes onsite production environment. The intern applies classroom knowledge to real-world projects, uses continuous-improvement and lean principles, analyzes process flows, and contributes to efficiency improvements for national security technology.

Manufacturing Engineering Intern supporting BAE Systems’ Countermeasure & Electromagnetic Attack Solutions group. The role involves analyzing and optimizing production processes, reducing costs, interpreting process data, supporting continuous improvement using lean principles, and collaborating with industrial engineers and cross-functional teams. The intern will apply engineering theory to improve manufacturing efficiency for defense technology in a full-time onsite environment.

Develop and demonstrate next-generation EO/IR sensors, lasers, optical systems, algorithms, and prototypes for military and commercial applications. Responsibilities include modeling, simulation, laboratory and field testing, technical analysis, proposal development, and leading interdisciplinary teams. The role requires expertise in optical systems, infrared applications, systems engineering practices, customer interaction, and defense product development, with full-time onsite work in Merrimack, New Hampshire.

Creates schematic symbols, PCB footprints, board outlines, schematic diagrams, intermediate PCB layouts, and fabrication outputs using Cadence tools. Supports library parts, geometries, 3D models, and customer issues; collaborates with electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, and process engineering teams. Uses ENOVIA, AutoCAD Mechanical, Creo, and related tools while ensuring designs meet BAE Systems, IPC, factory, fabrication, and assembly requirements.

Develop and verify FPGA design environments for electronic warfare systems using SystemVerilog/UVM and/or VHDL. Create constrained-random test plans, self-checking testbenches, reusable verification IP, and coverage-driven test cases. Analyze verification metrics, improve methodologies, execute tasks to schedule, and collaborate with engineers across multiple U.S. locations.

Manages a team of designers, drafters, and checkers supporting product definition from concept through production release. Oversees staffing, recruiting, employee development, performance management, and conflict resolution. Provides technical leadership in CAD, Creo, Windchill, GD&T, ASME standards, military drawings, 3D modeling, bills of materials, change management, and Model Based Definition. Coordinates staffing strategies and business initiatives while serving as the recognized leader of the design community.

Leads architecture, design, testing, verification, integration, and production transition for high-reliability digital circuit cards and modules. Responsibilities include FPGA and microprocessor circuit design, schematic and layout capture, signal integrity analysis, environmental testing, troubleshooting, documentation, defect resolution, customer and supplier coordination, and mentoring junior engineers.

Leads the design, development, integration, testing, and production support of opto-mechanical military systems for EO/IR products. Responsibilities include mechanical design and analysis, hardware engineering team leadership, packaging lasers, receivers, sensors, fiber optics, and gimbals, engineering documentation, multidisciplinary collaboration, and production support. The role requires CAD, FEA, GD&T, defense electronics experience, and eligibility for a Department of Defense security clearance.

Designs, tests, qualifies, and supports high-reliability DC/DC and AC/DC power electronics for military and commercial aerospace applications. Responsibilities include circuit architecture, component selection, schematic capture, PWB layout, simulation, verification testing, requirements compliance, troubleshooting, root-cause correction, EMI/EMC design, and lifecycle support. The role also advances power electronics technology through research and development and collaborates with systems, hardware, software, test, and operations teams.

Develop real-time embedded software for electronic defense systems, collaborating with systems, hardware, and test engineers across the software development lifecycle. Responsibilities include software development in Linux, C/C++ and Python programming, integration testing, Agile development, CI/CD, and potentially kernel, driver, containerization, and automated unit testing work. The role supports aircraft protection, radar warning, and electronic attack products.

Leads the common EO/IR threat-warning sensor product across development, qualification, production, and fielding. Owns product performance, roadmap, governance, cost, schedule, risks, customer commitments, and business success. Directs cross-functional teams spanning engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, finance, contracts, business development, and program management. Supports captures, proposals, investment strategies, production readiness, and executive reporting while balancing customer-specific needs with product commonality, scalability, and affordability.

Leads and develops Systems Engineering staff supporting flight, engine, mission, and propulsion control systems. Provides technical oversight, manages staffing and resource allocation, mentors engineers, establishes engineering processes, and ensures compliance with quality, reliability, and regulatory standards. Oversees requirements, architecture, integration, verification, design reviews, planning, and risk mitigation across aerospace projects.

Leads development of advanced aircraft engine controls systems, including customer requirements, technical solutions, product and technology roadmaps, proposals, safety-critical lifecycle development, competitive analysis, and technology maturation. Provides technical leadership, mentors engineering talent, balances resources across projects, and collaborates with customers and business leadership to advance FADEC capabilities.

Leads the design, development, integration, testing, and production support of optomechanical military systems. Provides technical leadership for hardware engineering teams developing EO/IR products involving lasers, receivers, fiber optics, sensors, and beam directors. Performs mechanical design and analysis, documentation, GD&T, and multidisciplinary collaboration while supporting DoD product development and manufacturing. Uses CAD and FEA tools and contributes to engineering presentations and processes.

Leads the design, development, integration, testing, and production support of opto-mechanical military systems. Works with EO/IR technologies including lasers, receivers, fiber optics, sensors, and beam directors. Provides technical leadership for hardware engineering teams, performs mechanical design and analysis, develops engineering documentation, and collaborates across multidisciplinary teams. Requires experience with DoD electronics, CAD/FEA tools, engineering processes, and eligibility for a Department of Defense security clearance.