Principal Reliability Engineer

BAE Systems has a stimulating opportunity for a Reliability Engineer to join our team. You will work on teams developing and producing a variety of electronic equipment including Countermeasure & Electromagnetic Attack Solutions, providing unparalleled electronic warfare capabilities to enhance mission survivability. BAE Systems’ Reliability Engineers are involved with every stage of the equipment lifecycle from concept through development, Integration & Test, production and field support. You will have significant interaction across the company including program office, all engineering disciplines and production functions and this will provide for a fast-paced, educational, and fulfilling experience. Your efforts will have a positive impact on front line warfighter’s effectiveness and daily quality of life.

You will have opportunities to apply your engineering skills and education to investigate digital and analog electronics, power supplies, and systems of electronic modules, to ensure Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability

are achieved. Your self-starting enthusiasm for technology, and ability to investigate and solve problems will propel you to become an integral part of our innovative teams and influence product development.

BAE Systems offers competitive pay, benefits, and important work-life balance initiatives including every other Friday Off, Flextime, and Telecommuting. BAE also believes in a culture of recognition for the extraordinary contributions of our skilled employees. Our engineers are the lifeblood of our company and we’re more than 5,000 strong. With our robust offering of educational and career development opportunities, your chances to grow are limitless.

As a Reliability Engineer you will make impacts in the following ways;

• ✓Work with a cross-functional team to ensure Reliability and Maintainability

are achieved. Perform failure trend analysis, failure investigation and root cause analysis. Coordinate failure analysis with vendors or failure analysis labs

• ✓Perform internal and external supplier interface to resolve reliability issues. Perform Design-for Reliability and Maintainability including reliability and maintainability modeling and analysis and assessments requiring the full use and wide application of engineering theories, concepts and precedents.
• ✓Prepare and review failure reports and FRACAS metrics for publication. Present findings and conclusions with recommended corrective actions to both internal management as well as our customers. Conduct research to provide solutions to a wide range of technical problems and proposals.
• ✓Present findings and conclusions with recommended corrective actions to both internal management as well as our customers. Represent the Company at customer meetings as applicable.
• ✓Make technical choices to improve the reliability & maintainability attributes of the equipment.
• ✓Lead the Reliability, Availability & Maintainability (RAM) scope activities
• ✓Perform RAM trade studies for the system design process
• ✓Define/allocate RAM

and assess RAM performance (MTBF, MTBCF, Ao)

• ✓Perform Reliability & Maintainability Predictions and MTBF Modeling
• ✓Perform Failure Modes Effects Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
• ✓Perform Testability Analysis, Maintainability Analysis
• ✓Drive the Failure reporting, Analysis & Corrective Action System (FRACAS) process
• ✓Perform failure trend analysis, failure investigation and root cause analysis
• ✓Chair/Track the Failure Review Board activities
• ✓Present R&M design and analysis of customer

at design milestone reviews

• ✓May involve supporting the design team to establish BIT functions, test interface

and diagnostic features

• ✓Bachelor’s degree in engineering, preferred Electrical, Computer, or Software, and 4 or more years of relevant engineering experience or equivalent.
• ✓Experience / awareness using ReliaSoft , Relyence and/or PTC Windchill RR software tools
• ✓Ability to obtain a US government Secret Clearance

• ✓Bachelor’s or Master’s of Science degree in electrical engineering or computer science/engineering
• ✓Proven Circuit Analysis experience
• ✓Reliability Growth software tools experience
• ✓Experience with requirement development
• ✓Experience with System Integration
• ✓Experience with MBSE (Magic Draw, SysML)
• ✓Familiarity with industry standard practices such as Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, etc.
• ✓Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment
• ✓Active Secret Clearance

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Pay Information

Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.

Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disabi