principal software engineering Principal Engineer tech_leadership Bachelor's · Posted May 1, 2026
$132,962 – $226,035
USD per year

About this role

BAE Systems is hiring a principal-level Principal 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
Principal Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
principal
Track
Tech leadership
Employment
Full-time
Location
Westminster, CO
Education
Bachelor's degree
Visa
Not sponsored
Department
Engineering & Technology
Posted
May 1, 2026
AI Summary
Lead electrical engineering team developing space-based electronics for payloads and power systems. Manage multidisciplinary teams through full program lifecycle, provide technical expertise in power electronics, focal plane interfaces, and thermal control, and drive system-level design trades and risk mitigation for high-reliability space applications.

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Job description

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Job Description
US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED

Minimum $10,000 Sign-On Bonus being offered for external hires.

BAE Systems is expanding our expertise to provide exciting and challenging solutions to our customers. Our spacecraft solutions team works in a fast paced, highly collaborative development environment to provide continuously evolving capabilities in space payloads and bus power products. As electrical engineering lead, you will manage a team of electrical engineers through the program life cycle to develop electronic products 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 a multidisciplinary system team (optical, mechanical, focal plane, power, thermal, RF, software) including suppliers to create, influence and define discriminating electronics solutions involving electro-optical imaging, mechanisms, thermal conditioning, payload control, mission data processing and power including DC-DC converter designs and products for power distribution.
  • Provide subject matter expertise in space-based electronics systems and components to include focal plane interface electronics, power electronics and power conversion, single board computers, high precision thermal control including cryo systems, and FPGA based controllers.
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