Senior Electrical System Engineer – Payloads - $10K Sign On Bonus
BAE Systems · Westminster, CO · Engineering & Technology
About this role
BAE Systems is hiring a senior-level Systems Engineer in the operations function based in Westminster, CO. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent. Compensation is listed at $97,008–$164,914 per year.
- Role
- Systems Engineer
- Function
- operations
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Westminster, CO
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Department
- Engineering & Technology
- Posted
- May 1, 2026
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Job description
from BAE Systems careersJob Description
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. As an electrical system engineer, you will work with 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, SoCs, mechanisms, thermal conditioning, payload control, mission data processing and power including DC-DC converter designs and products for power distribution.
- Work with subject matter experts to define 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.