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. BAE Systems' reputation is built on delivering quality products that meet our customer's standards and help protect our U.S. service members. We rely on our team of engineers to make this possible, and we are now hiring several Software Engineers to join our team.

We have openings for up to 4 individuals with experience and a passion for real-time, embedded software development. The Principal Software Engineer plans, leads, and performs 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.

At BAE Systems, we value our workforce. We offer competitive salary and benefit packages, and we work a 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off. We also offer a hybrid option to work remotely up to 50%, which helps our employees achieve a balanced life. With at least 50% of engineering work occurring on site, there is also plenty of support for new staff onboarding and project team collaboration.

In addition, the Principal Software Engineer:

• Plans, leads, and executes efforts to architect, design, develop, maintain, upgrade, port, and verify/qualify embedded product software and/or product support software to enhance, implement and support project/system functionality.

• Mentors less experienced software engineers to help develop their software development and test capabilities and troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

• Collaborates across the other engineering disciplines such as Mechanical, Electrical, Controls, and Systems.

• Ensures that technical approach is consistent with established engineering principles and practices.

• Ensures that cost and schedule targets are met, product outcomes meet customer needs, and customer and company technical, system, performance, process, and quality requirements are met.

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Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• Bachelor s degree in STEM field

• Minimum of 6 years of 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

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

• Experience developing and troubleshooting communications, device drivers, and IO interfaces

• Experience integrating or testing software on bare metal and with various real-time operating systems such as vxWorks and Linux/Unix derivatives

• Experience in requirements analysis, software design, implementation (code and unit test) and authoring of formal deliverable documentation

• Experience using Magic Draw, Enterprise Architect, or similar model-based engineering tool

• Experience either standing up or extending software verification environments in support of automated software verification testing

• Familiarity with weapon systems, munitions, and/or combat vehicle functionality and capability

• Experience using GitLab or other CI / CD tools

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $112420 - $191070

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.

Principal Embedded Software Engineer

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