Engineer Senior Principal II - Ground Systems

What You’ll Do

• Support design, development, integration and testing of an enterprise ground system.
• Apply technical expertise, and knowledge of ground systems.
• Fully competent in core systems engineering skills, contributing to effective producibility of designs, and managing cost, budget, and schedule constraints over program lifecycle.
• Work is performed with limited direction; completed work is reviewed from a relatively long‑term perspective for desired results.
• Develop technical solutions to complex problems, regularly using ingenuity and creativity.
• Interface effectively with people at all levels and from different areas, seek out responsibilities and opportunities to contribute, regularly meet with customers, provide leadership to groups and teams, and guide less experienced employees.
• Support the development of ground segment system engineering architecture/design.
• Perform requirements decomposition, use‑case development, and trace artifacts to architecture constructs.
• Support requirements decomposition activities including the establishment of verification attributes (Verification Test method, level, approach, success criteria, and Test Requirements).
• Oversee and guide the management of ground segment requirements – allocation, verification, and validation.
• Support interface definition development and documentation in the form of ICD.
• Analyze and implement key program interface documents by tracing to ground requirements and design.
• Support trade studies, performance analyses, risk and opportunity assessments.
• Prepare and give presentations to peers/management/customers.
• Support program gates as defined by customer (SRR, PDR, CDR).
• Maintain a regular and predictable work schedule.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships within the department, Strategic Business Units, and across the Company.
• Perform other duties as necessary.

On‑Site Work Environment

• This position requires regular in‑person engagement by working on‑site five days each normally scheduled week in the primary work location.
• Travel and local commute between company campuses and other possible non‑company locations may be required.

Working Conditions

• Work is performed in an office, laboratory, production floor, or cleanroom, outdoors or remote research environment.
• May occasionally work in production work centers where the use of protective equipment and gear is required.
• May access other facilities in various weather conditions.

Short‑Term Incentive

Subject to business performance and recommendations of management, this role may be eligible to participate in an incentive compensation plan.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• BS degree or higher in Engineering or a related technical field is required plus 10 or more years of related experience.
• Each higher‑level degree, i.e., Master’s Degree or Ph.D., may substitute for two years of experience. Related technical experience may be considered in lieu of education. Degree must be from a university, college, or school accredited by an agency recognized by the US Secretary of Education, US Department of Education.
• A current, active TS/SCI security clearance is required.
• Knowledge of related disciplines in software engineering, hardware engineering, integration, test engineering, quality engineering, configuration/data management.
• Knowledge of systems engineering roles and functions, including operations concept development, requirements management, functional analysis, interface definition and control, synthesis, and/or verification and validation.
• Experience in developing SEMP, specifications, ICDs, architecture, use case, and other ground CDRLs and artifacts.
• Knowledge of and support various test milestones like Test Readiness Review (TRR), Factory or Site Acceptance Test (FAT/SAT); Security milestones like Interim Authority to Test (IATT), Authority to Operate (ATO); Ground sell‑off milestones like Ground Completion Review (GCR).

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

• Any experience in mission management, command & control, mission data processing, ground terminal and infrastructure domains.
• Any experience with any ground or mission integration including operations readiness activities, rehearsals and launch support activities.
• Any experience with Risk Management Framework (RMF) and Information Assurance (IA) in developing ground systems.
• Knowledge of ground HW like FEPs, Cryptos along with various platforms or infrastructure to host ground system.
• Experience with Agile EVM and Agile software development methodologies.
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CICD) principles with security requirements as part of practicing DevSecOps on programs.
• Experience in cloud development environment.
• Experience with requirements management tool like Jama or DOORS.
• Experience with Model Base Systems Engineering (MBSE) SysML diagrams (Block Diagrams, Inner Block Diagrams, State Machines, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams) and UML diagrams (Class Diagrams, Sequence of Events Diagrams, and Activity Diagrams).
• Experience with Atlassian Tools such as Confluence and Jira.

Pay Information

Full‑Time Salary Range: $149,603 - $254,317

Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. Individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.

Employee Benefits: Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, and other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non‑monetary recognition awards.

Equal Opportunity Employer

BAE Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all employees.