Designs and integrates complex RF circuit cards and modules across development, testing, troubleshooting, verification, and production transition. Leads and mentors engineers, supports root-cause investigations, improves manufacturability and test processes, prepares technical documentation, and collaborates with engineering, quality, operations, suppliers, technicians, and government customers. The role includes vendor support and training for manufacturing personnel.
Job Description
At BAE Systems, our employees work on the world's most advanced electronics - from saving emissions in the City of Lights to powering the Mars Rover to protecting the F- 35 fighter jet. At Electronic Systems, you'll be among the brightest minds, working on the aerospace and defense industry's most difficult problems. Drawing strength from our differences, we're innovating for the future. And you can, too.
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 missions: "We Protect Those Who Protect Us®" and "We Innovate For Those Who Move The World™." Sound like a team you want to be a part of? Come build your career with BAE Systems.
In Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Systems, you'll help develop systems that sense, control, exploit and disseminate actionable information to warfighters supporting a variety of missions.
At BAE Systems, we deliver a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. If you are an individual that enjoys a cohesive team environment and is interested in a variety of challenges across a variety of products, then we are interested in hearing from you!
BAE Systems is seeking a Senior Principal RF Engineer to support multiple engineering development, integration, test and transition to production efforts on complex electronic modules. Candidate will provide electrical engineering support to a dynamic engineering development team, working first unit test, design verification test, integration and transition to production tasks on complex RF circuit cards and modules.
The successful candidate must possess strong technical aptitude, communication skills and the ability to independently work cross-functionally within the hardware organization and with other engineering disciplines/functions.
This position may include the following activities:
Design of complex RF circuit card assemblies
Lead/Mentor a team of junior engineers
Mentor peers and junior engineers in areas of expertise
Support test and troubleshooting of systems, modules and sub-assemblies of RF modules, working directly with program engineering personnel as required
Interface with Engineering, Operations, Quality and other supporting functions to drive defect resolution to root cause
Generate and implement improvements in product and test design and methodologies to reduce cost, increase yield, and improve throughput
Generate and review the technical content of test procedures, drawings, engineering specifications, reports, Engineering Change Orders, and other documentation
Interface with governmental customers and suppliers as required
Onsite visits to vendors to provide technical support to subcontracts
Provide training and support to technicians and manufacturing personnel as required
Support Root Cause and Corrective Action activities
Required Education, Experience, & Skills
Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $153377 - $260743
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.
About BAE Systems, Inc.
BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it's what we do at BAE Systems. Working here means using your passion and ingenuity where it counts - defending national security with breakthrough technology, superior products, and intelligence solutions. As you develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills on a team-making a big impact on a global scale. At BAE Systems, you'll find a rewarding career that truly makes a difference. Electronic Systems (ES) is the global innovator behind BAE Systems' game-changing defense and commercial electronics. Exploiting every electron, we push the limits of what is possible, giving our customers the edge and our employees opportunities to change the world. Our products and capabilities can be found everywhere - from the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of space. At our core are more than 14,000 highly talented Electronic Systems employees with the brightest minds in the industry, we make an impact - for our customers and the communities we serve.
This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days. The posting will remain active until the position is filled, or a qualified pool of candidates is identified.
At BAE Systems, our employees work on the world's most advanced electronics - from saving emissions in the City of Lights to powering the Mars Rover to protecting the F- 35 fighter jet. At Electronic Systems, you'll be among the brightest minds, working on the aerospace and defense industry's most difficult problems. Drawing strength from our differences, we're innovating for the future. And you can, too.
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 missions: "We Protect Those Who Protect Us®" and "We Innovate For Those Who Move The World™." Sound like a team you want to be a part of? Come build your career with BAE Systems.
In Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Systems, you'll help develop systems that sense, control, exploit and disseminate actionable information to warfighters supporting a variety of missions.
At BAE Systems, we deliver a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. If you are an individual that enjoys a cohesive team environment and is interested in a variety of challenges across a variety of products, then we are interested in hearing from you!
BAE Systems is seeking a Senior Principal RF Engineer to support multiple engineering development, integration, test and transition to production efforts on complex electronic modules. Candidate will provide electrical engineering support to a dynamic engineering development team, working first unit test, design verification test, integration and transition to production tasks on complex RF circuit cards and modules.
The successful candidate must possess strong technical aptitude, communication skills and the ability to independently work cross-functionally within the hardware organization and with other engineering disciplines/functions.
This position may include the following activities:
Design of complex RF circuit card assemblies
Lead/Mentor a team of junior engineers
Mentor peers and junior engineers in areas of expertise
Support test and troubleshooting of systems, modules and sub-assemblies of RF modules, working directly with program engineering personnel as required
Interface with Engineering, Operations, Quality and other supporting functions to drive defect resolution to root cause
Generate and implement improvements in product and test design and methodologies to reduce cost, increase yield, and improve throughput
Generate and review the technical content of test procedures, drawings, engineering specifications, reports, Engineering Change Orders, and other documentation
Interface with governmental customers and suppliers as required
Onsite visits to vendors to provide technical support to subcontracts
Provide training and support to technicians and manufacturing personnel as required
Support Root Cause and Corrective Action activities
Required Education, Experience, & Skills
- A bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering is required
- 25 years of work experience or experience in RF and analog engineering is required
- Working knowledge of the full life cycle of a product from Proposal to Design to Production is required
- Communicates clearly and works well in teams is a must.
- Eligible to obtain a DOD Security Clearance
Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
- Active Secret Clearance
- Designing to cost (DTUPC) constraints
- Designing for manufacturability
- Experience developing compact embedded systems for harsh environments
- Experience with requirements development
- Familiarity with AS9145 compliant processes
- Experience with Electronic Warfare systems, radar systems
- Chip and wire, SMT, and module level design and integration experience
- L-Band through V-Band design and integration experience
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $153377 - $260743
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.
About BAE Systems, Inc.
BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it's what we do at BAE Systems. Working here means using your passion and ingenuity where it counts - defending national security with breakthrough technology, superior products, and intelligence solutions. As you develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills on a team-making a big impact on a global scale. At BAE Systems, you'll find a rewarding career that truly makes a difference. Electronic Systems (ES) is the global innovator behind BAE Systems' game-changing defense and commercial electronics. Exploiting every electron, we push the limits of what is possible, giving our customers the edge and our employees opportunities to change the world. Our products and capabilities can be found everywhere - from the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of space. At our core are more than 14,000 highly talented Electronic Systems employees with the brightest minds in the industry, we make an impact - for our customers and the communities we serve.
This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days. The posting will remain active until the position is filled, or a qualified pool of candidates is identified.
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