Electrical Hardware Design Engineer

Job Description

Are you an experienced hardware engineer looking to design next-generation technology for aerospace and defense applications? Join BAE Systems' Space & Mission Systems team and work on advanced RF, LiDAR, antenna, and electronic systems supporting mission-critical platforms across the air, land, sea, and space domains.
In this role, you'll have the opportunity to take hardware from concept and circuit design through simulation, prototype development, laboratory testing, environmental qualification, and integration. You'll work across analog, digital, mixed-signal, FPGA, power, and control circuitry while collaborating with systems, PCB, software, and other engineering disciplines.

Our Electrical & Electronic Solutions team develops innovative technologies that give warfighters the ability to detect, identify, communicate, and respond to evolving threats. If you enjoy solving complex hardware problems and seeing your designs move from the lab into real-world mission applications, we'd like to hear from you.

The Engineering, Science and Analysis (ESA) Strategic Capabilities Unit comprises the technical talent and organizational leadership that enables the successful delivery of high-impact discriminating technologies for our customers’ missions. Our collaborative, cross-functional teams are committed to innovation, integrity, continual learning and strong execution.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and develop digital, analog, and mixed-signal hardware for advanced RF, LiDAR, antenna, and electronic systems.
• Develop board- and system-level circuits, including FPGA-based architectures, microprocessors, ADCs/DACs, power supplies, and control circuitry.
• Perform circuit modeling, simulation, power analysis, signal integrity, stability, reliability, and risk assessments.
• Partner with Systems Engineering to translate system requirements into hardware architectures and detailed designs.
• Collaborate with PCB/PWB engineers on schematic development, layout, packaging, and design for manufacturability.
• Bring designs from concept through prototype development, laboratory testing, environmental testing, and qualification.
• Use laboratory equipment including oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, DMMs, pulse generators, and current probes to troubleshoot and validate hardware.
• Support rapid R&D and technology-development efforts, helping transition innovative concepts into mission-ready products.
• Design hardware capable of operating in demanding tactical environments, including temperature, shock, vibration, and EMI/EMC constraints.
• Work alongside multidisciplinary engineering teams developing technologies for aircraft, ground vehicles, ships, and space platforms.