Engineer Senior Principal II – Program Chief Engineer

Job description

BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems is seeking a Chief Engineer for a new, high-priority radar program delivering advanced capabilities to DoW and Intelligence Community customers.

This is a mission-critical leadership role responsible for establishing and maintaining the technical baseline, system architecture, and engineering execution strategy across the full lifecycle from concept through development, integration, production, and sustainment.

The Chief Engineer will operate as the single-point technical authority for the program, partnering with program leadership and customers to drive performance, reduce risk, and ensure successful delivery.

Impact You'll Have:

• Lead development of a next-generation radar system.
• Establish and control the technical baseline and architecture.
• Drive disciplined systems engineering and execution.
• Influence customer decisions at senior levels.
• Enable development-to-production transition.

The Engineering 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.

• Serve as Chief Engineer and technical authority.
• Manage technical baseline and configuration control.
• Lead architecture and integration trades.
• Guide program through SRR, PDR, CDR, PRR.
• Drive risk management and technical decisions.
• Oversee modeling and simulation.
• Align SEIT, test, manufacturing, and mission assurance.
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