Hardware Design Quality Engineer

Job Description
What's it like realizing your potential at an innovative company that takes on some of the world's most important challenges? Rewarding. As part of our Precision Strike Quality Organization, you'll join a diverse group of driven professionals who design the products and systems that support enhanced military capabilities, protect national security, and keep critical information and infrastructure secure. With us, you'll be able to make an impact while you hone your skills and grow in your career.

BAE Systems is looking for a Hardware Design Quality Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will serve as an assurance partner with engineering by influencing and providing technical guidance on design quality assurance and design for manufacturability. Through early engagement in the design and development phase, the successful candidate will influence the adoption of engineering best practices to identify and eliminate defects early in the product lifecycle. This person will ensure product designs meet customer, quality, and reliability requirements and align to factory and supplier capabilities. This position will be responsible for supporting hardware designs and digital hardware architectures for all products and may also provide some development support for hardware engineering teams.
A Hardware Design Quality Engineer will typically fulfill the following responsibilities:

• Quality Planning & Execution: Contribute to hardware design quality assurance project bid estimates and tailor against contract requirements to develop and execute the hardware design quality assurance plan.
• Requirements Validation: Ensure internal and external product requirements are understood, validated, and properly traced to design, implementation, and testing and support qualification testing inclusive of system test set-up conformity, test monitoring, and review of qualification test reports and failure investigation reports.
• Test Solution Design and Validation: Ensure test strategies/solutions are properly designed to qualify products while ensuring factory acceptance tests meet the customer intent.
• Design Reviews: Participate in and influence outcome of design reviews and provide constructive design related feedback on engineering documentation including engineering models, test plans, and other development artifacts.
• Change Control: Ensure proper implementation and validation of design changes.
• APQP/AS9145: Support Advance Product Quality Planning (APQP) activities such as Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (DFMEA) activities and Key Characteristic (KC) identification.
• Design Optimization: Ensure that design guidelines, process and factory capabilities, and best practices such as Design for Manufacturability (DFM) are utilized.
• Risk & Opportunity and Supply Chain Support: Provide input to technical risk and opportunity management and to part and supplier selection to ensure that they meet design, manufacturability, and quality requirements.
• Design Process Compliance and Continuous Improvement: Ensure compliance to design processes, collect and analyze design quality metrics, and cross-pollinate hardware design best practices across programs to facilitate a culture of continuous improvement.
• Mentorship: Mentor team members in design quality assurance, processes, and regulatory requirements.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in a technical field of study and 4-6+ years of experience
• Capable of obtaining a U.S. Department of War (DoW) Secret security clearance
• Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with development teams and stakeholders and provide constructive feedback and mentorship to technical teams
• Ability to influence without authority
• Strong problem solving and risk management skills leveraged to ensure that the solutions meet the needs of the business and the warfighter
• Experience in hardware development life cycle including requirements capture and verification, design and development, and sub-level and system level integration and testing including understanding the purpose of tests and method to validate
• Design Review experience
• Technical competency:
• Engineering experience with Printed Wiring Board (PWB) and Circuit Card Assembly (CCA) development
• Familiarity with both thermal and structural testing and analysis
• Understanding of requirements decomposition from system requirements to electrical engineering requirements
• Experience with Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software
• Understanding of environmental and ESS testing/approval/release processes and IPC/workmanship standards
• Understanding of requirements decomposition from system requirements to mechanical engineering requirements
• Understanding and use of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) and standard tolerancing schemes for mechanical prints

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering
• Experience in model-based engineering including proficiency in 3D CAD solid modeling
• Proficient in requirement management tools
• Familiarity with DO-254 (for firmware) as required
• Capable of hands-on troubleshooting using engineering lab equipment
• Knowledge of military aerospace testing standards
• Experience with AS9145 APQP (DFMEA, PFMEA, and Control Plan development)
• Familiarity with Quality Sciences (8D/RCCA and Lean Six Sigma methodologies) and AS9100/ISO 9001 standards
• Experience with JIRA or equivalent workflow management
• Experience in aerospace and defense, automotive, or medical industry

Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $118095 - $200762

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 Electronic Systems
BAE Systems, Inc. is a defense, aerospace, and security company headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, with more than 40,000 employees worldwide. We serve, supply, and protect those who protect us. As one of the most geographically diverse international defense companies, we deliver a full range of products and services spanning air, land, maritime, space, and cyber, including advanced electronics, intelligence solutions, and dedicated customer support.

Our culture is performance-driven and values-led, built on curiosity, creativity, and collaboration. Purpose isn't a tagline here. It's what drives us. We're developing breakthrough technologies that defend national security and make a lasting impact on our communities and our planet. When you join BAE Systems, you're not just building a career. You're contributing to a mission that truly matters.

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.