senior operations Systems Engineer tech_leadership · Posted May 14, 2026
$145,049 – $246,584
USD per year

About this role

BAE Systems is hiring a senior-level Systems Engineer in the operations function based in Totowa, NJ. The posting calls out experience with Security, React. Compensation is listed at $145,049–$246,584 per year.

Role
Systems Engineer
Function
operations
Level
senior
Track
Tech leadership
Employment
Full-time
Location
Totowa, NJ
Department
Engineering & Technology
Posted
May 14, 2026

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Job description

from BAE Systems careers

Job Description Our Charter: Deter. Prevent. Detect. Respond. Our Mission: Safeguard the United States' most critical technologies from exploitation to maintain our battlefield pre-eminence. Our Need: Creative and innovative engineers with prior systems, hardware, or software engineering experience with the potential to outthink world class reverse engineers. In a modern approach to “Spy vs Spy,” BAE Systems uses state-of-the-art technology, advanced mathematics, and physics in novel ways to protect our systems and provide our customers with capability that endures. Our engineers design solutions that achieve the optimum balance between product capability and defense-in-depth security. They apply all the lessons learned to our model-based design approach and frequently advance security state-of-the-art. They take their creative and innovative spirit to the extreme by playing the part of adversary through their identification of attack vectors. They propose countermeasures that provide the greatest protection at the best value for the system’s entire lifecycle. BAE Systems is currently seeking creative, innovative problem solvers who are able to analyze, assess, anticipate, defend, and react to current and future attacks. Candidates should be capable of working in a team environment designing and implementing innovative protection schemes with rapidly evolving technologies used in various applications throughout the company.…

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