Engineer Senior Principal III - RF Architect

• Support and/or lead Remote Sensing architecture development system designs peer reviews and/or audits.
• Technical development understanding analysis and assessment of concepts and designs for remote sensing payloads; including performance predictions and risk assessments.
• Remote sensing concept analysis modeling or simulation for assessment of radiometric image quality detection background discrimination item identification and item tracking performance for terrestrial and space missions.
• 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.
• Assessment and communication to customers of Remote Sensing Payload's solution ability to meet mission needs.
• Assessment of impact and/or ability to integrate Remote Sensing Payload solution into customer's existing or planned infrastructure.
• 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 SMS.
• 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.
• Support and/or lead program(s) execution with a focus on early identification of issues and their mitigation to include leadership and/or participation in the following:
  • Independent Review Team (IRT)
  • Anomaly Review Team (ART)
  • Milestone Gate Reviews - Documentation briefings and participation
  • Program Health and Risk Assessment
  • Development through assembly integration and test
  • Functional and Physical Configuration Audits (FCA/PCA)
  • Technical Performance Assessment
  • Assessment for Ready to Ship Review
  • Application of best practices and lessons learned
• 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 leadership and functional/career direction by exhibiting behaviors aligned with the tenants of BAE Systems SMS leadership model. These behaviors would include providing a unifying vision understanding the needs of others to meet business challenges and acting with humility and a collaborative spirit.
• 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. Interact appropriately with others in order to maintain a positive and productive work environment.
• Perform other duties as necessary.

• 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.

• BS degree or higher in Engineering or a related technical field is required plus 12 or more years 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 which is accredited by an agency recognized by the US Secretary of Education US Department of Education.
• Expertise in RF payloads to include sub-systems (aperture front-end software define radios processing basic exploitation etc.) and phenomenologies (radiometry imaging sounding altimetry scatterometry radio occultation SAR etc.); knowledge should include Remote Sensing solution's concept and requirements that impact Payload's cost/schedule development operation and performance.
• Knowledge and demonstrated experience in defining payload Remote Sensing solutions for systems and architectures as well as assessing developing and documenting their requirements (specifications interfaces CONOPs environment constraints functions information etc.); architecture should include assessment of focused and distributed remote sensing architectures.
• A capability to communicate using nominal systems and architecture languages and diagrams is required.
• Knowledge of and experience in a program's gated lifecycle and system engineering cycle with 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.
• Knowledge of and the ability to estimate program component box and subsystem level cost and schedule with a goal to support new proposals basis of estimate (BOE) development program make/buy decisions and improve 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 DoW and/or Industry standard architecture languages formats and frameworks.

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