Job Description
BAE Systems seeks a Lead Mechanical Engineer with substantial Gun Hardened experience. This will be a HYBRID position and we welcome applicants from across the country.

In this role, you will lead design activities as well as teams within our Precision Strike & Sensing Solutions business area. This role will require an engineer with proven technical and leadership skills, who will mentor more junior members of the team. It is essential that this individual be capable of working in a diverse, remote work environment.

In this highly dynamic and fluid environment, we develop cutting edge mechanical, optical, and electronic solutions to survive within challenging, high-G environments associated with our smart munition technologies. We partner closely with our customers and drive towards delivering products and solutions of unmatched performance. Embracing a “design-it-right-the-first-time“ mentality. We focus on factors including affordability, manufacturability, quality, and reliability in order to exceed our customer’s expectations.

Within the wider span of our Precision Strike & Sensing Solutions business, we provide affordable and highly accurate precision-guided munition, helmet-mounted and head-up displays for fighter aircrafts, and advanced electro-optical/laser technologies that detect and defeat threats for air and ground based platforms.

Apply today and join us for an engineering career full of technical challenges, collaboration, diversity, and satisfaction.

“Please note that pursuant to a government contract, this specific position requires US citizenship.”

Because this role involves a combination of collaborative/in-person and independent work, it will take the form of a Hybrid Work Format, with time split between working onsite and remotely.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills
As an engineer, you will provide project and discipline guidance to ensure successful execution of program plans and accomplishment of departmental goals. You’ll execute research, development, and consulting assignments of a professional technical nature where extensive and diversified knowledge of mechanical engineering principles and practices is necessary to successfully accomplish general goals and objectives.
Required Job Skills Include:

• Defining and driving design/test strategy for team on gun launched munition
• Gun launch munition design and testing expertise, high-G loading
• Structural design experience/background and experience with nonlinear explicit dynamic structural analysis
• Solid leadership and understands balance of technical & schedule along with team coordination/motivation skills
• Track record of driving to closure with exceptional organization skills
• Strong technical communication to execution team, company leaders, and with customers
• Eligible to obtain a DOD Security Clearance

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
As a Mechanical Engineer within Precision Strike & Sensing Solutions business area, you will be involved with the design of hardware for gun-launched, guided projectile programs. You will have the opportunity to lead the design of innovative solutions that will be used in the challenging artillery gun launched environment. You will be integral in the mechanical design for projectiles as the designer/selector of components for structures, radomes, bearings and electronic/electro-mechanical/opto-mechanical components and devices including but not limited to:

• Processors
• Crystal Based Devices (i.e., Oscillators)
• Discrete Components
• Antennas
• Motors
• Sensors
• Batteries

Skills should also include:

• Proven Lead Mechanical Engineer on gun launched munition programs
• Experience with artillery gun-launch design verification test methods
• Experience in thermal design for survivability including aero-thermal loading
• Experience designing for manufacturability including automated assembly
• Active DoD security clearance

About BAE Systems Electronic 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. Electronic Systems (ES) is the global innovator behind BAE Systems’ game-changing defense and commercial electronics. Exploiting every electron, we push the limits of what is possible, giving our customers the edge and our employees opportunities to change the world. Our products and capabilities can be found everywhere – from the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of space. At our core are more than 14,000 highly talented Electronic Systems employees with the brightest minds in the industry, we make an impact – for our customers and the communities we serve.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:
At BAE Systems, we work hard every day to nurture an inclusive culture where employees are valued and feel like they belong. We are conscious of the need for all employees to see themselves reflected at every level of the company and know that in order to unlock the full potential of our workforce, everyone must feel confident being their best, most sincere self and be equipped to thrive. We provide impactful professional development experiences to our employees and invest in social impact partnerships to uplift communities and drive purposeful change. Here you will find significant opportunities to do meaningful work in an environment intentionally designed to be one where you will learn, grow and belong.