About this role
BAE Systems is seeking a senior technical leader to join our team in Austin, Texas! “We Protect Those Who Protect Us®” is our mission, and we’re looking for engineering leaders who share our passion in developing a full range of first-of-its-kind technologies and equipment to protect air, land, and naval warfighters on all fronts. At our Austin, Texas site, the Countermeasure & Electromagnetic Attack Solutions team provides next-generation threat detection and countermeasure solutions that provide unparalleled electronic warfare capabilities to enhance mission survivability. If you are an individual who thrives in Agile hardware development environments, then we are interested in hearing from you! This exciting role spans the full product lifecycle - business capture, development, production, testing, sustaining - for a variety of complex defense products and technologies. Here, we turn ideas into products ranging from electro-optics to state of the art laser technology solutions that protect our nation’s airborne and land-based platforms. As a Hardware Engineering Lead, you’ll have opportunity to own the engineering technical, cost, and schedule aspects of our projects with the freedom to lead and shape teams consisting of talented electrical, mechanical, optical, as well as firmware engineers and designers. You’ll guide teams performing research, development, and consulting assignments of a professional technical nature where extensive and diversified knowledge of hardware engineering principles and practices are necessary to successfully accomplish objectives. You’ll actively partner with a wider team of dedicated program engineers and business leads to develop and deliver truly amazing hardware solutions designed to survive the harshest of environmental conditions. Embracing a “design it right the first time” philosophy, we focus on factors including affordability, manufacturing, quality, and reliability in order to exceed our customer expectations every day. So apply today and join us for an engineering career full of technical challenges, diversity, and satisfaction and see for yourself why our employees proudly average more than 12 years of service! “ Typical duties assigned to this position: Lead multi-discipline, state-of-the-art hardware teams of 20+ people through Agile hardware engineering design and development Employ your expertise, decision skills, and independent judgment in technical areas Lead Design Review activities to achieve program success Communicate essential information and coordinate with engineering disciplines, Procurement, Operations, and Program Management Develop program schedules, earned value criteria, and productivity metrics for efficient performance Ensure the established Hardware Development Process is implemented successfully Support important program capture and proposal teams with hardware baselines that include development and cost/scheduling estimating Work with Discipline Section Leads to determine program staffing needs and “right person/right job”