Technical Fellow Engineer Senior Principal III - EO​/IR Architect Security Clearance

Position: Technical Fellow Engineer Senior Principal III - EO/IR Architect with Security Clearance
Job Description This position is for a very experienced engineer or scientist to provide engineering leadership for remote sensing payload development programs and new business pursuits in support of Civil, Military, and National Space programs. The Payload Architect ensures continuity and balance between the scientific or warfighter mission needs, the acquisition community, and the BAE Systems, Inc. technical solution. This position will report to the Payload Engineering - Payload Architects department manager.

The responsibilities of this position include architecture definition, detailed design, analysis, modeling, and performance verification of systems and payloads in their mission context. The Engineering, Science and Analysis (ESA) Strategic Capabilities Unit (SCU) comprises the technical talent and organizational leadership that enables the successful delivery of high-impact discriminating technologies for our customers' missions. Our collaborative, cross-functional teams are committed to innovation, integrity, continual learning and strong execution.

What You'll Do:
* 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. These behaviors would include providing a unifying vision, understanding the diverse needs of others to meet business challenges and acting with humility and a collaborative spirit.

* 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, to include leadership and/or participation in the following:
* Architectural Review Board (ARB)

* Independent Review Team (IRT)

* Anomaly Review Team (ART, MRB, FRB)

* Milestone Gate Reviews (SRR, SDR, PDR, CDR, HSR, PSR, etc.)

* Ad hoc program health and risk assessments

* All program phases from initial conceptualization to operational support

* 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 technical team leadership in accordance with BAE System, Inc.'s leadership model. These behaviors would include providing a unifying vision, understanding the diverse 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…