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Systems Engineering Requirements Lead - Seeker Programs

BAE Systems
BAE Systems Salary
Huntsville, AL Full Time
POSTED ON 12/16/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/16/2026

Job Description
See what you’re missing. Our employees work on the world’s most advanced electronics –from providing the latest in missile seeker innovations, to autonomous smart munitions. 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 us.

BAE Systems, Precision Guidance and Sensing Solutions (PGSS) Product Line within the Precision Strike (PS) Business Area is seeking an experienced Systems Engineering Requirements Management lead to support our RF, and EO/IR Seeker Development Programs. With facilities in Huntsville AL and Hudson NH, the successful candidate will plan, develop, and manage Systems Requirements with a geographically distributed team through the product development lifecycle of our next generation advanced missile seekers. The ideal candidate would be self-motivated, good at planning, and have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

The selected candidate will be responsible for managing system-level requirements modules in DOORS, to include activities such as, but not limited to: deriving requirements from parent and reference specifications, managing allocations of requirements to subsystems, performing impact and traceability assessments including suggested corrective actions, engaging with system architecture and verification teams to ensure satisfaction and verification of requirements, and generating and presenting views of requirements to leadership and stakeholders for review and approval. The selected candidate will also be responsible for leveraging DOORS Extension Language activities.


This role will be staffed in Huntsville, AL. In Huntsville, our Engineering team is working in a recently opened state of the art facility and operating in a unique environment where we have the power and resources of BAE Systems behind us while working in a dynamic and flexible model. At BAE Systems, we are looking for team players who have demonstrated experience working successfully in group settings.

Because 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 primarily onsite with some remote potential. Travel is estimated at 10%.


Required Education, Experience, & Skills
  • Hold an active Secret security clearance
  • Advanced knowledge of Requirements and their purpose in systems engineering
  • Proficient with DOORS
  • Significant experience with missile or guided projectiles design, development, and fielding
  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or Computer Science


Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Experience in identifying and tracking technical risks
  • Ability to communicate effectively with senior leadership and other engineering disciplines
  • The candidate should enjoy problem solving and have the ability to produce concrete results despite significant ambiguities in the problem space
  • Comfortable in a lab setting working with a combination of both hardware and software, and HWIL
  • Understanding any of the Electro-Optical Infra-Red (EOIR), Laser, and Radio Frequency (RF) domains
  • Experience in any of the following is a plus:
    • Aerodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, Semi-autonomous decision awareness
    • Model Based Agile Engineering (Value Driven Digital Threads) and Agile Mindset principle, practices & processes and tools & techniques
    • Developing and using analysis tools such as MATLAB, Simulink, Python, VBA, C/C , Linux, or similar tools is required
    • Jira
  • MS Systems Engineering


Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $118504 - $201457

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 : $118,504 - $201,457

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