Because this role involves a combination of collaborative/in-person and independent work, it will take the form of a hybrid work format, with time split between working onsite and remotely. See what you’re missing. Our employees work on the world’s most advanced electronics – from detecting threats for F-35 pilots to illuminating the night for soldiers. Spanning air, land, sea, and space, we are developing the technology of tomorrow, delivered today. Drawing strength from our differences, we’re innovating for the future. And you can, too. Our flexible work environment provides you a chance to change the world without giving up your personal life. We put our customers first – exemplified by our mission: “We Protect Those Who Protect Us®.” Sound like a team you want to be a part of? Come build your career with BAE Systems. In Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Systems, you’ll help develop systems that sense, control, exploit and disseminate actionable information to warfighters supporting a variety of missions. The Advanced RF (ARF) product line is seeking an experienced and energetic Chief Engineer (CE) to lead our ARF product area. This is a unique Chief Engineer opportunity spanning a highly diverse portfolio of commercial and defense products – from open-architecture hardware and software and emerging RF technologies to signals intelligence, signal exploitation, and weapon data link capabilities. A key element of this role is maturing and transitioning capabilities from Fast Labs and other advanced development organizations through integration, demonstration, testing, certification, production, and ultimately fielded systems. It requires a broad systems thinker who can connect diverse technical disciplines, navigate technology transition, and provide strong technical leadership across the full product lifecycle. This portfolio is a highly diverse and evolving set of products, with a strong emphasis on transitioning emerging technologies into operational capabilities. This portfolio includes commercial products and developing commercial offerings, subsystems, RF technologies, signals intelligence and signal exploitation products, and emerging-threat capabilities, offering a particularly unique opportunity to connect emerging technology with real customer needs and support the full lifecycle from development and integration through production and operational use. Responsibilities Include: • Serve as the technical advocate across a diverse portfolio, guiding engineering teams, influencing customer discussions, and supporting strategic business growth. • Lead system architecture design and optimization activities, including trades and analyses, ensuring technical rigor, interoperability, performance, and mission effectiveness. • Ensure system design and implementation meet technical requirements and customer/mission needs within allocated engineering cost & schedule. • Drive technical risk and opportunity definition, identification, and mitigation/realization. • Act as the primary technical interface to the Customer, Program Management Office, and executive leadership, translating evolving customer and emerging-threat needs into practical technical strategies and product roadmaps. • Foster collaboration and alignment of technical strategies across engineering teams – including Fast Labs, business-area engineering organizations. • Develop and drive a cohesive technology roadmap across the Advanced RF portfolio, balancing sustainment of legacy products with modernization initiatives, emerging mission capabilities, and future customer requirements. • Maximize technical leverage and reuse across products by driving common architectures, shared processing capabilities, and scalable engineering solutions that improve affordability and execution. • Lead continuous improvement initiatives, including engineering process maturity, technology reuse, design standardization, risk reduction, and cross-product collaboration to accelerate development and transition to production.