Sr Principal Electrical System Engineer – Mechanisms Lead - $40K Sign On Bonus
BAE Systems · Westminster, CO · Engineering & Technology
About this role
BAE Systems is hiring a principal-level Hardware Engineer in the software engineering function based in Westminster, CO. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent. Compensation is listed at $132,962–$226,035 per year.
- Role
- Hardware Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- principal
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Westminster, CO
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Visa
- Not sponsored
- Department
- Engineering & Technology
- Posted
- May 1, 2026
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Job description
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US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED
Minimum $40,000 Sign-On Bonus being offered for external hires.
BAE Systems is expanding our expertise to provide exciting and challenging solutions to our customers. Our precision mechatronics and exquisite sensing solutions team works in a fast paced, highly collaborative development environment to provide continuously evolving capabilities in mechanisms. As electrical engineering lead, you will lead a team of electrical engineers through the program life cycle to develop electronic controls systems for various complex, high precision, and high reliability applications.
The Engineering, Science and Analysis (ESA) Strategic Capabilities Unit comprises the technical talent and organizational leadership that enables the successful delivery of high-impact discriminating technologies for our customers’ missions. Our collaborative, cross-functional teams are committed to innovation, integrity, continual learning and strong execution.
What You’ll Do:
- Provide technical leadership for multidisciplinary system team (optical, mechanical, focal plane, power, thermal, RF, software) including suppliers to create, influence and define discriminating electronics solutions involving scan mechanisms, fast steering mirrors, spin mechanisms, cryo coolers, and other mechatronic systems.
- Provide subject matter expertise in space-based electronics systems and components to include motor control theory, closed loop stability analysis, embedded algorithm implementation, 2 and 3 phase BLDC motors, stepper motors, voice coils, resolvers, encoders, power electronics, motor drives, and other sensing methodologies.