Power Supply Electrical Engineer

Job Description
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.

At BAE Systems, we deliver a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions, and customer support services. If you are an individual that enjoys a cohesive team environment and is interested in a variety of challenges across a variety of products, then we are interested in hearing from you!

This role will be supporting engineering development, integration, test, and transition to production efforts on complex electronic modules. Candidate will provide power supply electrical engineering support to a dynamic engineering development team, leading first unit test, design verification test, integration, and transition to production tasks on complex analog, digital, RF, and optical circuit cards and modules.

The successful candidate must possess strong technical aptitude, communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally within the hardware organization and with other engineering disciplines/functions. Must be able to exercise discretion and independent judgment in technical areas.

This position may include the following activities:

• Design of complex analog circuits
• Design of point of load power supply circuits
• Agile hardware development, risk-reduction prototyping, and requirements-driven design and verification
• Knowledge of engineering development processes for aero/defense industry, including designing and testing to MIL-STD-704, MIL-STD-461
• State-of-the-art electrical engineering design/analysis/sim tools
• Familiarity with design, analysis and manufacturing standards associated with complex multilayer rigid and rigid-flex CCAs
• Strong “hands-on” laboratory experience with instrumentation, equipment, and processes
• Working experience with Interface standards including military/avionics communication buses (i.e. RS-485, Mil-Std-1553B, Ethernet)
• Lead/Mentor a team of junior engineers
• Support test and troubleshooting of systems, modules and sub-assemblies of digital modules, working directly with program engineering personnel as required
• Interface with Engineering, Operations, Quality and other supporting functions to drive defect resolution to root cause