Hardware Design Quality Engineer

BAE Systems; Nashua (NH); On-site; USD 118,095 - 200,762; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Life insurance

Job summary

BAE Systems is seeking a Hardware 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 and design for manufacturability.

The role ensures product designs meet customer, quality, and reliability requirements and align to factory and supplier capabilities, with potential development support for hardware engineering teams across programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field and 4–6+ years of experience.
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Department of War (DoW) Secret security clearance
• Strong communication and collaboration with development teams and stakeholders
• Ability to influence without authority
• Experience in hardware development lifecycle including requirements capture and verification, design and development, and integration and testing

Responsibilities

• Contribute to hardware design quality assurance plan and bid estimates and tailor against contract requirements.
• Validate internal/external product requirements and ensure proper traceability to design, implementation and testing.
• Design and validate test solutions to qualify products and meet factory acceptance tests.
• Participate in design reviews and provide feedback on engineering documentation and artifacts.
• Support APQP/AS9145 activities including DFMEA and KC identification.
• Ensure design for manufacturability and supplier capability alignment.

Skills

Communication

Influence

Problem solving

Mentorship

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

JIRA

FEA software

3D CAD

Job description

Job Description 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 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 Hardware 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 and design for manufacturability. 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 and align to factory and supplier capabilities. The position will be responsible for supporting hardware designs and digital hardware architectures for all products and may also provide some development support for hardware engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Quality Planning & Execution: Contribute to hardware design quality assurance project bid estimates and tailor against contract requirements to develop and execute the hardware 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.
• Design Reviews: Participate in and influence the 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 Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (DFMEA) activities and Key Characteristic (KC) identification.
• Design Optimization: Ensure that design guidelines, process and factory capabilities, and best practices such as Design for Manufacturability (DFM) are utilized.
• Risk & Opportunity and Supply Chain Support: Provide input to technical risk and opportunity management and to part and supplier selection to ensure that they meet design, manufacturability, and quality requirements.
• Design Process Compliance and Continuous Improvement: Ensure compliance to design processes, collect and analyze design quality metrics, and cross‑pollinate hardware design best practices across programs to facilitate a culture of continuous improvement.
• Mentorship: Mentor team members in design quality assurance, processes, and regulatory requirements.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field of study and 4-6+ years of experience
• Capable of obtaining a U.S. Department of War (DoW) Secret security clearance
• Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with development teams and stakeholders and provide constructive feedback and mentorship to technical teams
• Ability to influence without authority
• Strong problem solving and risk management skills leveraged to ensure that the solutions meet the needs of the business and the warfighter
• Experience in hardware development life cycle including requirements capture and verification, design and development, and sub‑level and system level integration and testing including understanding the purpose of tests and method to validate
• Design Review experience
• Technical competency:
• Engineering experience with Printed Wiring Board (PWB) and Circuit Card Assembly (CCA) development
• Familiarity with both thermal and structural testing and analysis
• Understanding of requirements decomposition from system requirements to electrical engineering requirements
• Experience with Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software
• Understanding of environmental and ESS testing/approval/release processes and IPC/workmanship standards
• Understanding of requirements decomposition from system requirements to mechanical engineering requirements
• Understanding and use of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) and standard tolerancing schemes for mechanical prints

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
• Experience in model‑based engineering including proficiency in 3D CAD solid modeling
• Proficient in requirement management tools
• Familiarity with DO-254 (for firmware) as required
• Capable of hands‑on troubleshooting using engineering lab equipment
• Knowledge of military aerospace testing standards
• Experience with AS9145 APQP (DFMEA, PFMEA, and Control Plan development)
• Familiarity with Quality Sciences (8D/RCCA and Lean Six Sigma methodologies) and AS9100/ISO 9001 standards
• Experience with JIRA or equivalent workflow management
• Experience in aerospace and defense, automotive, or medical industry

Pay Information

Full‑Time Salary Range: $118,095 - $200,762

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; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non‑monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.