Hardware Development Lead

Job Description
Looking for an exciting career that utilizes your boundless creativity, technical innovation, and leadership skills? “We Protect Those Who Protect Us®” is our mission, and we’re looking for engineers who share our passion in developing first-of-its-kind technologies and equipment to protect our warfighters on all fronts. From our modern Huntsville, AL facility, our Electronic Systems Hardware Engineering organization welcomes an energetic and motivated senior-level engineering lead to help drive our multi-discipline project teams and our record of product excellence. Have a background in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering developing hardware solutions for customers? Willing to learn and collaborate with an expansive team of world class professionals? Fantastic! With a flexible work environment including a 9/80 work schedule and competitive benefits, come join us today and see the opportunities in store for you!

From around the globe, our employees work on the world’s most advanced electronics – from detecting threats for F-35 pilots to illuminating the night for soldiers. Spanning air, land, sea, and space, we are developing the technology of tomorrow, delivered today. Drawing strength from our diversity, we’re innovating for the future. And you can, too. Our engineers are the staple of our company and we’re more than 5,000 strong. With our robust offering of educational and career development opportunities, your chances to grow are limitless. Our work culture provides you a chance to change the world without giving up your personal life. Sound like a team you want to be a part of? Come build your career with BAE Systems.

Within our growing Hardware Engineering community, you’ll have the opportunity to work on technology focused programs within our Precision Strike and Countermeasure & Electromagnetic Attack Solutions (CEMA) businesses. Here, we turn ideas into products ranging from electro-optic and laser technologies to state of the art RF solutions that protect our nation’s airborne platforms. As a Hardware Lead, you’ll have opportunity to own the engineering technical, cost, and schedule aspects of our projects with the freedom to lead and shape teams consisting of talented electrical, mechanical, optical, RF, as well as firmware engineers and designers. You’ll actively partner with a wider team of dedicated program engineers and business leads to develop and deliver truly amazing hardware solutions designed to survive the harshest of environmental conditions. Embracing a “design it right the first time” philosophy, we focus on factors including affordability, manufacturing, quality, and reliability in order to exceed our customer expectations every day.

So apply today and join us for an engineering career full of technical challenges, diversity, and satisfaction and see for yourself why our employees proudly average more than 12 years of service!“

This role involves a combination of collaborative/in-person and independent work, it will take the form of a hybrid work format, with time split between working onsite and remotely.

"Please note that pursuant to a government contract, this specific position requires US citizenship”


Required Education, Experience, & Skills
As a Hardware Engineering Lead, you will provide project level leadership to ensure successful execution of program plans and accomplishment of engineering department goals. You’ll guide teams performing research, development, and consulting assignments of a professional technical nature where extensive and diversified knowledge of hardware engineering principles and practices are necessary to successfully accomplish objectives.

Required Job Skills, Responsibilities, & Experience includes:

• BSEE or BSME with 10 years and commensurate experience leading engineering teams
• Possess solid technical leadership practices for multi-disciplinary engineering teams engaged in the design and development of state-of-the-art electro-mechanical products
  • Team sizes may range from small to large (5, 10, to 20 )
  • Team disciplines include Mechanical (ME), Electrical (EE), Optical (EE), RF (EE), Firmware (FW), & Design Drafting (DD)
• Proven experience in developing, implementing, and monitoring project schedules, budgets, and productivity metrics to ensure efficient team performance
• Implementing established Hardware Engineering design processes to achieve product quality and consistency
• Possesses sound interpersonal communication skills involving interfacing with company personnel, customers, and suppliers
• Experience supporting new business capture and proposal teams with development of hardware engineering cost/schedule estimates
• Capable of exercising independent discretion and judgment in the performance of engineering duties
• Utilizes computer skills to prepare appropriate reports, documents, and presentations for internal/external distribution
• Ability to develop and implement design solutions, processes, and systems within budget and schedule requirements
• Experience with design and develop of products and services using state-of-the-art engineering technologies, principles, theories and concepts
• The ability to obtain a DoD Security Clearance

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

• Knowledge/experience with opto-mechanical designs & developments
• Knowledge/experience with missile seeker development
• Experience with lasers, optics, and/or related IR technologies
• Design of RF technologies
• Designing for manufacturability
• Experience with Model Based Engineering (MBE)
• Certification for Earned Value Management System (EVMS) project management techniques
• Current DoD Security Clearance

Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $133333 - $226667

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 Electronic Systems
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.

Salary : $133,333 - $226,667