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Senior Principal Reliability Engineer

BAE Systems
BAE Systems Salary
Nashua, NH Part Time
POSTED ON 12/5/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/4/2026

Job Description
See what you’re missing. 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 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 mission: “We Protect Those Who Protect Us®.” Sound like a team you want to be a part of? Come build your career with BAE Systems.

BAE Systems has a stimulating opportunity for an energetic well-qualified Reliability Engineer to join our team. You will work on teams developing and producing a variety of electronic equipment including Countermeasure & Electromagnetic Attack Solutions, providing unparalleled electronic warfare capabilities to enhance mission survivability. BAE Systems’ Reliability Engineers are involved with every stage of the equipment lifecycle from concept through development, Integration & Test, production and field support. You will have significant interaction across the company including program office, all engineering disciplines and production functions and this will provide for a fast-paced, educational, and fulfilling experience. Your efforts will have a positive impact on front line warfighter’s effectiveness and daily quality of life.

We are seeking a Senior Principal Engineer with an earned degree in a electrical engineering discipline to join our Reliability Science engineering team. You will have opportunities to apply your engineering skills and education to investigate digital and analog electronics, power supplies, and systems of electronic modules, to ensure Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability requirements are achieved. Your self-starting enthusiasm for technology, and ability to investigate and solve problems, will propel you to become an integral part of our innovative teams and influence product development.
In this role, you will:
  • Perform reliability and maintainability analyses on Small Form Factor, Lo TAC and AEWS systems.
  • Engage in and drive reliability testing assignments, including HALT and RGT
  • Perform sneak circuit analysis tasks
  • Perform FRACAS including leading FRBs and RCAs, when required
  • Promote the growth of Reliability Lab activities
  • Perform life consumption data analyses
  • Perform Fault Tree Analysis on Small Form Factor, Lo TAC and AEWS systems.




Required Education, Experience, & Skills
Proven Background History of Required Skills:
  • Perform RAM trade studies
  • Define/allocate RAM requirements and assess RAM performance (MTBF, MTBCF, Ao)
  • Perform Reliability Predictions and MTBF Modeling
  • Perform Failure Modes Effects Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
  • Perform Testability Analysis
  • Perform Maintainability Analysis
  • Perform Sneak Circuit Analysis
  • Perform reliability testing


Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
Prefer to hire a proven Senior Principal Reliability Engineer with over 15 years exposure to ECS products from the SFF EW, AEWS and Lo TAC product lines

Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $130355 - $221603

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 : $130,355 - $221,603

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