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 & Sensing Solutions 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 Software 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. 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. This position will be responsible for supporting software designs and architectures for all products and may also provide some development support for software engineering teams. A Software Design Quality Engineer will typically fulfill the following responsibilities: • Quality Planning & Execution: Contribute to software design quality assurance project bid estimates and tailor against contract requirements to develop and execute the software 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. • Product Factory Acceptance Test Support: Support software testing and verification including automated testing and validation procedures for software integration and modular architecture that focus on repeatability and reliability. • 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 Software Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (SWFMEA) activities and Key Characteristic (KC) identification. • Design Optimization: Ensure software coding standards and best practices that focus on systematic and holistic approaches to software development are utilized. • Risk & Opportunity Management Support: Provide input to technical risk and opportunity management. • Design Process Compliance and Continuous Improvement: Ensure compliance to design processes, collect and analyze design quality metrics, and cross-pollinate software design best practices across programs to facilitate a culture of continuous improvement. • Mentorship: Mentor team members in design quality assurance, processes, and regulatory requirements.