Technical Fellow Engineer Senior Principal III - EO/IR Architect

• Lead Remote Sensing architecture development, system designs, peer reviews, and/or audits
• Provide leadership in Payload Architecture and other disciplines by exhibiting behaviors aligned with the tenants of BAE Systems’ leadership model
• Technical development, understanding, analysis and assessment of concepts and designs for remote sensing payloads
• including performance predictions and risk assessments
• Advise and perform remote sensing concept analysis, modeling, or simulation for assessment of radiometric, image quality, detection, background discrimination, line of sight control, target tracking, and target identification performance for terrestrial and space missions
• Understand remote sensing concept’s impact and/or benefit on ground and/or space concept of operations (CONOPs) and collections as well as ground and bus architecture and/or design
• Lead assessment and communication to customers of Remote Sensing Payload’s solution ability to meet mission needs
• Identify strategic architectures, capabilities and technologies for space payloads and contribute to new IRAD/technology development concepts and roadmaps
• Support Strategic Business Unit (SBU) marketing and proposal development by providing Remote Sensing concepts and architecture solutions to customer missions and provide winning discriminators for BAE Systems, Inc
• Provide Engineering and SBU insight into industry capability and industry and/or government technology development to guide technology roadmap, engineering resource planning, program capture and proposal development
• Lead program’s technical maturation with a focus on early identification of issues and their mitigation
• Support new and ongoing program resource planning (people, equipment, and infrastructure)
• Foster knowledge database for common architectural approaches, design reuse, shared efficiencies, product development/reuse/evolution, incorporation of lessons learned, design to cost, and supplier continuity
• Provide technical team leadership in accordance with BAE System, Inc.’s leadership model
• Guide and mentor engineering staff from all levels to maintain and grow internal technical development skillsets
• 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
• Perform other duties as necessary

• BS degree or higher in Engineering or a related technical field is required plus 12 or more years related experience
• A current, active Top Secret security clearance is required with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI
• Extensive successful space-based EO/IR program experience, preferably spanning multiple customer organizations
• Expertise in at least one fundamental engineering discipline (opto-mechanical, electrical, detector science, thermal, software, systems engineering, geospatial information science, etc.) and substantial knowledge of all the others
• Understanding of Remote Sensing solution’s attributes and requirements that impact Payload's cost/schedule, development, operation, and performance
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills including the ability to communicate using nominal systems and architecture languages and diagrams
• Knowledge of, and experience in a program’s gated lifecycle and system engineering cycle with a strong experience in program’s risk assessment and mitigation by planning embedded tasks, participation and/or leadership in milestone audits/reviews, and participation and/or Leadership in anomaly/failure reviews
• New business development experience, including successful customer interaction
• briefing and whitepaper development
• direct discussions or briefings
• and exceptional proposal writing
• Extensive knowledge of missions and customers across core technologies areas. Knowledge/experience working with critical customer base, established successful relationships with key personnel within customer communities
• The ability to estimate program component, box, and subsystem level cost and schedule in support of new proposals, basis of estimate (BOE) development, program make/buy decisions and improvement of engineering estimating tools and/or capabilities

Knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) to support definition and design of architectures, systems, and remote sensing payload is desired, as well as the use of DOD and/or Industry standard architecture languages, formats, and frameworks

• health, dental, and vision insurance
• health savings accounts
• a 401(k) savings plan
• disability coverage
• life and accident insurance
• employee assistance program
• legal plan
• discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance
• paid time off
• paid holidays
• paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave
• company recognition program
• other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics
• Is Relocation Available: Yes