Senior Principal Software Engineer

Job Description:

Job Description
What’s it like to work on a team driven to make a big impact? Empowering. Our reputation is built on delivering quality products that meet our customers standards and help protect our U.S. service members. We rely on our team of Engineers to help make it possible. We are seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer to lead the development and maintenance of a military vehicle platform software baseline.

As a Senior Principal Software Engineer, you will plan, lead and perform a variety of tasks across the areas of software requirements analysis, software architecture and design, implementation (code and unit test), documentation, hardware-software integration, troubleshooting, problem solving, and software verification testing. You will guide a technical team, communicate with internal and external stakeholders, support presentations and development of proposals, and develop statements of work to both customer and vendors. You must be highly self-motivated, have strong analytical and creative troubleshooting experience, as well as solid communication and interpersonal skills. You must be able to find order with ambiguous requirements and be comfortable adapting to developing customer and business objectives.

This is an onsite or hybrid on-site position working a 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off.

Position Responsibilities:

Ensure technical, performance, cost, schedule, and quality requirements are met
Ensure project outcomes are consistent with established engineering and management practices
Oversee engineering requirements analysis, design, development, test, product assurance and/or configuration management to meet cost, quality, performance, and schedule requirements
Develop and implement project plans to include detailed task definition, resource requirements, schedule, quality, and cost parameters
Assess project risk areas and develops risk mitigation plans
Prepare, monitor, and control budgets and schedules, reporting on technical, cost, and schedule status
Define and guide the technical approaches and architectures for projects
Conceptualize, create, and evaluate designs to ensure technical outcomes are consistent with customer and company requirements
Apply knowledge of multiple engineering concepts and disciplines, including customer understanding as well as in-depth knowledge of assigned product or technology area in guiding and reviewing project direction and outcomes
Resolve conflicts between subsystems or disciplines to the benefit of system performance, quality, reliability, and cost
Plan and manage internal and external resources ensuring all project obligations and objectives are met. This includes identifying and acquiring resources, providing project leadership, and anticipating and resolving inter/intra-group conflict
Continuously drive to maintain and enhance the technical reputation of BAE Systems with customers and industry
Regularly prepare, present, and defend project technical results and recommendations to external customers and internal high-level management
Participate in formal technical reviews with customers and internal technical reviews with peers and subordinates
Maintain state-of-the-art familiarity with industry practices, trends, and applications to enhance the organization’s technical capabilities
Advise senior management on new developments and evolving organizational needs and required technical knowledge

Job Requirements:

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field
8+ years relevant experience including:
- Real-time embedded software development or testing
- Use of version control and issue tracking tools
- Object-oriented software architecture, software design, C++ coding and unit testing of embedded software with knowledge of requirements-based software verification and traceability
Practical knowledge and experience with applicable engineering processes
Contemporary design/development program experience
Two or more years as a Project Lead Engineer or equivalent with supervisory experience
Excellent teamwork, technical writing, written communication, and oral communication skills
Technical leadership and management including project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and closeout

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

Master’s or PhD degree in Engineering
Familiarity with the Bradley Fighting Vehicle Program and Architecture
Expertise in a relevant technical discipline within the functional domain
Working knowledge of CMMI
Ada and/or C++ development experience
Experience in vehicle networking protocol tools such as CAN, Ethernet and their associated diagnostic tools
Experience in 1553 Serial Data Communication bus
Experience in combat vehicle design, operation and testing
Experience with developing safety critical code
Hold a Cyber Security Certification

Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $130355 - $221603

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.

Job Ident #: 111082BR

Company Details

BAE Systems

1601 Research Blvd
Rockville, Maryland 20850 USA
www.baesystems.jobs

BAE Systems is a premier global defense and security company with approximately 100,000 employees delivering a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions...

Benefits:
Competitive

Supported Manufacturers:
Various

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Job Info

Location

Sterling Heights, Michigan, United States

Type

Permanent

Company Details

BAE Systems

1601 Research Blvd
Rockville, Maryland 20850 USA
www.baesystems.jobs