Senior Principal Engineer - Mission Chief Engineer

Job Description
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The Mission Chief Engineer (MCE) is the senior technical leader responsible for setting the technical vision, guiding cross-functional teams, and ensuring the delivery of compliant and organizationally efficient solutions that meet the end-customer's needs. This role comes with high expectations of technical excellence and organizational savvy. The MCE must understand and interact with each element of the TCPED chain (F2T2EA & BMC3 for Defense systems). The MCE must have a high EQ and the ability to empower others to maximize the success and output of the individuals working within the team.
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 systems engineering leadership of technical teams to define architectures for complex systems including spacecraft, instruments, ground, and missions.
• Objectively define, execute, and report on trade studies that provide data for decision making to our customers.
• Leverage Model Based Systems Engineering.
• Creatively apply our heritage and expertise to solve customer problems in novel and cost-effective ways.
• Lead technical proposal development.
• Maintain a regular and predictable work schedule.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships within the department, the Strategic Business Units, Strategic Capabilities Units and the Company. Interact appropriately with others in order to maintain a positive and productive work environment.
• 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 use of protective equipment and gear is required.
• May access other facilities in various weather conditions.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• BS degree or higher in Engineering or a related technical field is required plus 8 or more years related experience.
• Each higher-level related degree, i.e., Master's Degree or Ph.D., may substitute for two years of related experience. Related technical experience may be considered in lieu of education. Degree must be from a university, college, or school which is accredited by an agency recognized by the US Secretary of Education, US Department of Education.
• A current, active Top Secret security clearance is required with ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI.
• Recognize the need for Enterprise communication - driving conversation and narratives outside scope and into users, operators, other stakeholders to benefit the mission's success
• Navigate the documented SOW vs the mission needs, bringing things into conversations with externals where scope doesn't match expectations, or where other efficiencies and benefits may be realized.
• Problem-solve across multiple simultaneous domains, people, team, tech, environment, and tools.
• Ability to mature strategy and then apply it across the execution lifecycle.
• Solid, strategic awareness of cost and schedule from quick-turn studies to LCM Phase reviews.
• Span Of Control and Force Multiplication to empower others for the team's success. The Mission CE must make room for others to lead.
• Experience working the full program Lifecycle beyond PSR, launch, and SV checkout.
• Able to lead systems engineer on an effort where the SE Lifecycle is executed.
• Experience leading a Systems Integration and Test team through several phases of a program lifecycle including staffing, costing, and planning.
• Experience in Systems Engineering disciplines including: Requirement creation, allocation, and verification validation.
• Exposure to hardware and/or software test processes, challenges, problem resolution, allocation to test then test through requirement sell-off efforts, and test infrastructures required across space, ground, and the larger enterprise into which the system integrates.
• Architecture design experience: Take concepts through trade studies and into an implementable solution including identifying connections between design, performance, and lifecycle cost.
• Exposure to MBSE and Agile Systems Engineering.

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Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

• Extensive knowledge of missions and customers across core technologies areas. Knowledge/experience working with critical customer base, established relationships with key personnel within customer community.
• Superb presentation skills with documented presentation experience to senior decision making and technical audiences.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and analyzing mission concepts, including space, launch, and ground components.

Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $130355 - $221603
Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, 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: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. 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 things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
About BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems
BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it's what we do at BAE Systems. Working here means using your passion and ingenuity where it counts - defending national security with breakthrough technology, superior products, and intelligence solutions. As you develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills on a team-making a big impact on a global scale. At BAE Systems, you'll find a rewarding career that truly makes a difference.
Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, Space & Mission Systems is a leading provider of national defense and civil space applications, advanced remote sensing, scientific and tactical systems for the U.S. Intelligence, Department of Defense and scientific communities. We continually pioneer ways to innovate spacecraft, mission payloads, optical systems, and other defense and civil capabilities. Powered by endlessly curious people with an unwavering mission focus, we continually discover ways to enable our customers to perform beyond expectation and protect what matters most.
This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days. The posting will remain active until the position is filled, or a qualified pool of candidates is identified.