Thank you for your interest in BAE Systems! This opening is included as part of our September 2026 Defense Electronics Engineering Hiring Event. While we encourage all interested professionals to apply, please note that this is a selection-based interview event for candidates whose skills and experience match our hiring needs. If your background and skill set match these needs, we will reach out with next steps. If selected for an interview, specific opportunities based on your interests, experience, and skill set will be discussed with the hiring team. For candidates not local to the northern New Jersey area, virtual interviews will be accommodated. What’s it like working for a company whose mission is “We Protect Those Who Protect Us®” that develops the world’s most advanced airborne Electronic Warfare equipment? Rewarding. As part of our Electronic Combat Solutions Systems Engineering team, you’ll join a diverse group of driven professionals who architect, design, develop, build, integrate, test, and support products and systems that enable our service men and women to execute their missions and return home safely. We are looking for a self-motivated engineering leader to join our Electronic Combat Solutions business area as a Chief Engineer. As a Chief Engineer on a project or product family, you will be the technical conscience of the program, ensuring the system(s), product(s), and service(s) being developed and delivered are viable, fit for purpose, and will satisfy customer needs, product/system requirements, and the mission and/or application. The CE is the primary owner of the technical solution and the technical interface to Program, Engineering, Functional and Executive leadership. In this Chief Engineer position you will make impacts in the following ways; • Technical Solution Definition, Viability and Adequacy: • Leads (system) architecture design and optimization activities, trades and analyses • Ensures system design and implementation meet technical requirements and customer/mission needs within allocated engineering cost & schedule​ • Ensures system design is realizable, maintainable, supportable and testable • Drives technical risk and opportunity definition, identification, and mitigation/realization • Technical interface to Customer, PMO and executive leadership: • Extensive outside contact with customers, other contractors, and government officials • Prepare and deliver customer and technical presentations • Understand requirements, missions, use cases, and constraints • Technical risks and issues including impact assessment, mitigation, minimization and closure plans Because of the need for consistent, in-person collaboration and/or the requirement to perform all work onsite due to the nature of this role, it will be performed full-time on site. This means work will be conducted on location at a BAE Systems facility 100% of the time.