Senior Mechanical Engineer with Security Clearance

Job Description Thank you for your interest in BAE Systems! This opening is included as part of our June 2026 Countermeasure & Electromagnetic Attack Solutions 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 southern NH or Austin, TX areas, virtual interviews will be accommodated. Are you a Mechanical Engineer with 2 to 20+ years of experience looking for the next step to grow your career? Does a career that stretches your imagination and pushes the bounds of technical possibilities excite you? Seeking to surround yourself with innovation and opportunities to be part of a collaborative design team with common visions? Come experience our passion in developing leading technologies and equipment to protect our defense interests on all fronts. "We Protect Those Who Protect Us®" is our guiding mission, and we're looking for engineers who thrive on developing first-in-the-field technologies and achieving excellence at every turn. About BAE Systems Our employees work on the world's most advanced electronics. Spanning air, land, sea, and space, we are developing the technology of tomorrow, delivered today. Drawing strength from our differences, we're innovating for the future. And you can, too. At BAE Systems, we promote a strong, collaborative culture and provide our employees with the tools, skills and training they need to succeed and grow. We are all about trust, camaraderie, and a shared ambition to lead the world in defense technologies and national security services. When you join our engineering group, you will be an integrated team member collaborating with Systems, Software, and Test engineers in one or more of the phases of the hardware design cycle. We offer a flexible work environment and 9/80 work schedule. Our company is part of the community and driven to improve our future and protect our freedom. Job Description CEMA provides next-generation EO/IR and RF/electronic warfare products in support of our warfighters and user base across the land and up into the skies. As a CEMA mechanical engineer you will have the opportunity to support engineering activities spanning the product lifecycle including design & development, verification & validation, transition to production, test equipment design and development, as well as production sustainment for complex electronics, electro-mechanical, and optomechanical designs. Candidates will work within dynamic engineering development teams collaborating and sharing knowledge with colleagues and experts from around the country in the effort to deliver the most advanced products our customers require to do their jobs! Successful candidates must possess strong technical aptitude, communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally within the hardware engineering organization and with other engineering disciplines/functions. You will be expected to exercise discretion and independent judgment in technical areas based on mechanical engineering principles and practical design & development experience. Job Responsibilities * Leading or participating in multi-discipline hardware teams through the engineering design, development, build, and test of product * Performing mechanical modeling, analyses, prototyping, build/assembly, as well as environmental testing to ensure design requirements are achieved * Developing test equipment and solutions necessary for production environments * Applying your expertise, decision making skills, and engineering judgment to progress technical designs * Implementing hardware design processes and driving design review activities to ensure program success * Generating and reviewing the technical content of test procedures, drawings, engineering specifications, reports, Change Orders, and other documentation * Communicating essential information and coordinating with other engineering disciplines, Procurement, Operations, and Program Management * Supporting Root Cause and Corrective Action activities * Interfacing with customers and suppliers as required to communicate technical information * Working in engineering labs in support of build, test, and verification efforts * Developing or supporting program schedules, earned value criteria, and productivity metrics for efficient performance * Supporting program capture and proposal teams with hardware baselines that include development and cost/scheduling estimating * Mentoring and sharing knowledge with colleagues Required Education, Experience, & Skills * Ability to obtain a Secret Clearance * Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or related field, and a mi