Senior Electrical Engineer

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Sterling Heights, MI
Hybrid
95K-162K Annually
Senior level
Aerospace • Hardware • Information Technology • Security • Software • Cybersecurity • Defense
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The Role
As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you will design and validate electrical systems, manage interface controls, and ensure compliance with military standards while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
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Job Description
How does it feel to work on a team driven to make a big impact? Empowering. At BAE Systems, our Engineering teams are the root of our success in delivering life-saving products to our nation's military. Our Combat Missions Systems business is looking for a skilled Electrical Engineer. This position will be an integral part of a diverse team of professionals and subject matter experts fulfilling challenging technical requirements in a dynamic environment.
Here, we value our workforce, and their well-being. We prioritize safety, work life balance, and offer competitive benefits. Whether it's a flexible work schedule or career development opportunities, you'll find it with us. Make a difference doing work you can be proud of, challenged, and part of a team that shares a passion of helping to protect our nation.
As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you will:
  • Develop detailed design and integration of electrical/electronic systems, sub-systems and components
  • Support validation and verification activities at component, sub-system, and system test events
  • Conduct Systems Engineering activities including requirements definition and electrical architecture development
  • Provide engineering support to system production in manufacturing environment
  • Research, plan, design, develop, modify, and evaluate electronic and electrical systems
  • Perform complex calculations and develop complex engineering models and representations
  • Prepare and approve engineering drawings
  • Conduct or lead portions of requirements development, architecture development, interface management, verification, and validation
  • Work with stakeholders to ensure products meet cost, schedule, performance and quality requirements
  • Contribute to internal and external technical reviews
  • Use advanced modeling and analysis tools to develop product specifications, models, simulations, technical data packages, and integration and verification procedures
  • Evaluate vendor capabilities, technologies, services and ability to deliver required products or services
Recommend design approaches for new or improved products and processes
  • Provide engineering consultation to other technical groups
  • Conduct and support subsystem and system integration and verification activities, manufacturing and test planning, and failure analysis
  • Analyze and interpret design specifications, drawings, documentation, models, and/or test results to ensure technical designs comply with applicable engineering standards, military specifications and product requirements

Required Education, Experience, & Skills
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or closely related field and four years relevant experience or two years relevant experience with master's degree
  • Experience in creating, reading, and comprehending schematics and interconnect drawings
  • Ability to create and manage interface control documents
  • Ability to solve complex technical problems
  • Organizational skills to successfully manage the release of drawings, author engineering orders, and track changes
  • Ability to operate in cross-functional engineering tasks (electrical, mechanical, systems)
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills to convey data, information, and technical results to customers
  • Leadership abilities and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to travel to military test sites to support testing

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
  • Systems Engineering and manufacturing knowledge
  • Low voltage (28Vdc) power distribution and management (Solid State Power Controller/Programmable Power Controller)
  • Working knowledge of design for environmental qualification including EMI/EMC design and qualification principles
  • SAEJ1939, CANBus, MIL-STD-1553, 10/100 and Gigabit Ethernet Protocols and equipment
  • Vehicle Signal management (Sensor/Transducer Input/Output signal management) including support for diagnostics and prognostics
  • Integration of military communication/antenna systems including BFT, SINCGARS, DAGR, CREW2
  • Experience using lab test equipment (oscilloscopes, network analyzers, CANbus analyzers, data acquisition) for test and verification
  • Experience with engineering design of wiring harnesses and cable assemblies for military vehicles
  • Experience interfacing with and/or managing suppliers

Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $95106 - $161680
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 Platforms & Services
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.
The Platforms & Services (P&S) sector under BAE Systems, Inc does the big stuff: the armored combat vehicles, naval guns, missile launchers, and naval ship repair...just to name a few. Our employees take pride in the work they do and why they do it. They are on the front lines every day, building our products to protect the lives of those who serve. We may be biased, but we think P&S does some of the coolest work around, and we think you will too.
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.

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HQ: Falls Church, VA
40,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1999

What We Do

Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it’s what we do. As a leading aerospace, defense, and security company, we work together to deliver a full range of products and services for air, land, space, and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services.

How we work is rooted in purpose – a purpose to protect those who protect us, to unite our community of colleagues and customers, and to drive forward the growth and development of our exceptional team members. It's where purpose connects.

Why Work With Us

We believe your career should be filled with innovation and discovery. And that's exactly what you'll find at BAE Systems. As you work to develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills and expand knowledge. On a sharp and collaborative team, you will be challenged – and supported – at every turn.

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