Jobs at BAE Systems, Inc.

Design and test power electronics for military and commercial aircraft, conducting research, troubleshooting, and ensuring compliance with specifications.

Leads engineering execution for electronic warfare programs, serving as the engineering focal point across proposals, staffing, risk management, technical planning, schedules, budgets, and requirements. Coordinates multidisciplinary engineering teams, program managers, customers, subcontractors, and factories. Requires defense hardware development experience, complex electronic systems expertise, Design to Cost knowledge, and an active Secret clearance.

Leads engineering execution for defense electronic warfare programs, including strategic planning, proposals, staffing, risk management, technical scope, schedules, budgets, and project plans. Coordinates multidisciplinary engineering teams, program managers, subcontractors, customers, and factories. Requires experience with complex electronic systems, hardware development, defense programs, product verification, Design to Cost, and active Secret clearance. Preferred qualifications include EVMS, cost account management, and military EO/IR product development.

Develops advanced ASICs from concept through deployment, focusing on physical design, synthesis, constraints, timing analysis, EMIR, and layout verification. The role requires scripting, revision-control, and Linux/Unix experience, with opportunities to lead design teams and work on advanced technology nodes, radiation-hardened designs, custom timing libraries, and post-silicon debug. The position is hybrid in Manassas, Virginia, supporting aerospace, defense, space, and electronic warfare applications.

Develop and verify FPGA designs for electronic warfare systems using SystemVerilog/UVM and/or VHDL testbenches. Create constrained-random test plans, analyze coverage metrics, develop reusable Verification IP, improve verification methodologies, and collaborate with engineers across multiple locations. The role requires executing tasks to schedule, supporting multiple projects, and working full-time onsite.

Leads the CEMA Supplier Quality team and supplier quality strategy, managing 6–8 engineers. Oversees supplier performance, quality metrics, risk mitigation, corrective actions, regulatory compliance, and AS9145 deployment. Partners with engineering, supply chain, operations, and program quality teams to resolve technical issues and drive zero-defect performance. Provides technical guidance, develops team members, and implements quality training. The role requires approximately 25% local and overnight travel.

Design and develop complex battery, high-voltage, and high-power electronic packaging systems. Conduct thermal and structural analyses, resolve complex design challenges, and establish finalized designs. Collaborate with manufacturing, engineering teams, customers, and suppliers on materials, components, production, cost, schedules, and technical requirements. Support lightweight structures, thermal management, thermal runaway mitigation, and design-to-cost objectives while coordinating multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Design, develop, validate, integrate, test, and debug embedded software for safety-critical avionics systems. Translate customer and system requirements into technical solutions, collaborate with systems and hardware engineers, follow software lifecycle and coding standards, conduct code reviews, maintain configuration control, produce engineering documentation, and improve legacy code. Work within an integrated product team while ensuring compliance with avionics safety standards including DO-178C.

Develop and maintain embedded software and firmware for mission-critical flight and avionics systems. Collaborate with systems, hardware, and test engineers across requirements development, low-level design, implementation, hardware-in-the-loop integration, and system testing. Create safety-critical design and project artifacts, perform software validation and verification, troubleshoot hardware-software issues, and use embedded architectures, testing tools, and engineering processes.

Leads and manages a team of hardware engineers while serving as a technical contributor on defense and electronic warfare programs. Responsibilities include recruiting, mentoring, staffing, goal setting, hardware development process oversight, product design, design reviews, verification, integration, trade studies, proposals, and production support.

Leads and mentors a team of 4–10 software engineers while serving as a technical contributor across the full software development lifecycle. Responsibilities include performance management, recruiting, technical oversight, program execution, cost and schedule management, metrics tracking, and collaboration with functional managers and discipline leads. The role supports defense systems involving aircraft protection, radar warning, and electronic attack.

Leads logistics improvement initiatives, including point-of-use inventory redesign, RFID implementation, min-max auditing, time studies, Lean process improvement, CAD layout design, and creation of manufacturing procedures and technical guides. The intern analyzes supply-chain performance, improves replenishment processes, supports operational transformation, and collaborates with experienced professionals through BAE Systems’ LEAP Internship Program.

Leads the design, development, integration, and testing of electro-optical/in infrared pointing and tracking systems. Develops stabilization, control, estimation, filtering, and tracking algorithms; models system performance; integrates sensors, actuators, motion-control hardware, and embedded software; analyzes accuracy, stability, latency, jitter, and dynamics; and leads laboratory, hardware-in-the-loop, environmental, and field testing. Directs engineering teams and supports requirements, architecture, risk management, integration, and verification activities.

Leads receiving inspection operations, supervising and developing the inspection team while ensuring compliance with customer requirements, quality policies, industry standards, and regulatory obligations. Oversees incoming defect detection, process improvement, staffing, performance management, training, and personnel assignments. Partners with product lines, quality organizations, and supply chain teams to reduce costs, improve inspection performance, resolve technical and staffing issues, and support strategic initiatives.

Lead and mentor FPGA design engineers through requirements generation, architecture, RTL coding, synthesis, simulation, lab testing, debugging, and product support. The role requires expertise in FPGA or ASIC development, VHDL or Verilog, timing-driven design, clock-domain crossing, high-speed interfaces, revision control, and Linux scripting. The engineer will provide technical oversight, develop test benches, support legacy and new designs, and collaborate across defense electronics programs.

Design, analyze, integrate, test, and transition complex digital, analog, and power supply circuit cards and electronic modules into production. Responsibilities include circuit design and simulation, hardware verification, troubleshooting, documentation, defect resolution, test methodology improvements, and collaboration with layout, manufacturing, quality, suppliers, and customers. The role also mentors junior engineers, supports technicians, and presents designs during milestone reviews.

Design and develop FPGA systems through architecture, RTL coding, synthesis, place-and-route, timing closure, simulation, lab testing, product support, and FPGA security. The role requires debugging high-speed interfaces, clock-domain crossings, and digital designs, while supporting testing and mentoring engineers. Preferred experience includes DSP, MATLAB/Simulink, legacy hardware, UVM/SystemVerilog, radar, video/IR processing, stepper motor control, and C/C++.

Develop high-quality real-time embedded software for electronic defense platforms. Collaborate with systems, hardware, and test engineers across the software development lifecycle, including integration testing, automated unit testing, Linux development, and Agile delivery. Work on aircraft protection, radar warning, and electronic attack solutions while applying technologies such as C/C++, Python, CI/CD, and embedded computing platforms.

Leads engineering activities for defense electronic warfare and countermeasure programs. Responsibilities include strategic planning, proposal support, engineering staffing, integrated plans, technical team leadership, risk management, project execution, requirements and budget oversight, and collaboration with program managers, customers, subcontractors, and factories. The role also leads multidisciplinary hardware development projects and ensures technical solutions meet affordability and producibility requirements.

As Technical Director, lead the development of engine control systems for advanced aircraft, engaging with customers, managing technology roadmaps, and mentoring teams.