FAST Labs - Senior Principal Engineer II – Mission Effectiveness Lead

Job Description Ready to make a difference? Our employees design, integrate, and test the world’s next generation communication and electronic warfare systems for the United States DoD and international customers. You will be among the brightest minds, working on the aerospace and defense industry’s most difficult problems. Drawing strength from our differences, we’re innovating for the future. We put our customers first – exemplified by our mission: “We Protect Those Who Protect Us®.” Sound like a team you want to be a part of? Come build your career with us.

BAE Systems’ Mission Assessments (MA) organization is revolutionizing how mission-level operational analysis is planned, executed, and delivered. The Mission Assessments organization was created to address the rapidly increasing demand for mission-level operational analysis. Our mission is to achieve excellence in multidomain (MDO), systems-of-systems (SoS) Mission Assessments and effectively communicate the value of BAE Systems products to customers, DoD leadership and the warfighter. To do this we must bring together models of advanced technologies, weapons, platforms, and threats in relevant mission simulations – and then apply our deep subject matter expertise and experience to deliver assessments that can change the world.

BAE Systems is seeking a highly motivated, experienced Mission Effectiveness Lead to join the Mission Assessments team to provide technical expertise to teams performing operational analysis. A Mission Effectiveness Lead is responsible for working with internal and external customers to understand the requirements, design the approach for an analysis study, lead technical reviews, and be responsible for the technical output. Mission Effectiveness Leads are also responsible for leading Internal Research and Development (IR&D) efforts and participating in internal working groups working to close Mission Level M&S capability gaps.

The Mission Effectiveness Lead reports to the MA Technical Director. They work with the MA Tech Director, Mission Area Study Leads, and Study Managers to design operational analysis studies executed by MA Analysts using a wide variety of DoD and BAE-developed modeling, and simulation tools. The Mission Effectiveness Lead should have a deep understanding of mission applicability of BAE Systems technology areas such as integrated Electronic Warfare (EW) systems including Electronic Attack (EA), Electronic Protection (EP) and Electronic Support (ES) for RF sensing, detection, identification, geolocation, and jamming; infrared (IR) imaging, guidance, survivability and targeting; C4ISR for actionable intelligence including SIGINT, EO/IR, Multi-INT, and hyperspectral solutions; and information technologies including fusion and dynamic mission battle management.

The ideal Mission Effectiveness Lead candidate has experience with DoD missions, operational analysis or threat analysis, modeling and simulation, and/or EW technologies. Mission Effectiveness Lead candidates should have experience providing leadership and mentoring of teams of junior engineers or analysts, experience presenting technical results to senior leaders, and have experience being responsible for a team’s technical output.



Responsibilities Include

• Interface with customers, especially product line or business area technical directors and other technical staff, as the primary POC to scope and provide technical leadership for MA studies and tasks
• Design and develop mission relevant scenarios; assess operational effectiveness of existing and/or emerging systems and capabilities in representative operational environments
• Support the design and development of visualization models for integration with a high fidelity simulation environment used for mission analysis
• Take direction from the MA Tech Director and MA Engineering Lead regarding tradecraft, prioritization, and execution of studies
• Work with Study Managers to and Study Leads to execute MA studies and tasks
• Brief study and task outputs, providing recommendations and expertise to product line and business area tech directors, other BA technical staff, and external customers to help drive technology development and adoption
• Work with MA leadership team to identify needed capabilities and set technical roadmaps to fill capability gaps
• Build and contribute to IR&D plans, identify IR&D needs and priorities, and lead IR&D technical execution
• Provide subject matter expertise to working groups made up of Analysts to solve MA hard problems and fill capability needs
• Responsible for growing MA across BAE Systems by inserting MA into external programs, and capturing MA studies from internal product lines
  
  

Because of the need for consistent, in-person collaboration and/or the requirement to perform all work onsite due to the nature of this particular role, it will be performed

full-time on site
. This means work will be conducted on location at a BAE Systems facility 100% of the time.



Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• Active Top Secret Clearance and ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI and SAP clearances
• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field and 12 years technical experience (MS and 10 years preferred).
• 10 years technical / engineering leadership experience including performance management, coaching, mentoring and inspiring a technical staff with diverse experience, technical views, and individual differences
• Critical thinking skills that will be exercised across multiple levels of detail.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong communications skills ranging from technical briefings to executive level presentations.
• Experience developing and using analysis tools such as MATLAB, Python, C/C , or similar tools.
• Experience using mission simulation tools such as NGTS, AFSIM, DIADS, JSE, BRAWLER, STK, TMAP, ESAMS, etc.
  
  
  

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

• Active Top Secret / SCI Clearance
• Expertise in Electronic Warfare, Weapons, Optics, or Communications
• Experience with DoD warfighting operations in any domain
• Experience with collaborative Modeling and Simulation environments and the DoD OA community.
• Knowledge of mission simulation driven by Model Based Systems Engineering
• Knowledge of DevSecOps and DevSecOps pipeline driven by mission simulation-enabled test environments.
• Experience with tools, infrastructure, and security constraints of DoD environments.
  
  
  

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $146670 - $249330

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 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.