Hiring: Hardware Section Lead (People Manager and Technical Leader) Company: BAE Systems, Inc. Location: Austin, TX Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 11:17:08 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : Security Clearance, Systems Engineering About the job Experience: •8+ years of work experience Required Skills: •BAE Systems has recently been awarded new programs and is currently undergoing an exciting period of growth. •Are you an experienced hardware engineer looking for the next step to grow your career in a lead role? Do you have a background as a hardware engineer as a subject matter expert in Mechanical or EO/IR Engineering and leading teams of engineers through the development and transition to production process? •Then, help us protect those that protect us by developing next generation of electronic systems products and solutions. We need your talent, motivation, and vision to join our growing teams. •This role is a dual role where you will perform in the player-coach model, where some of your time is allocated to being a team manager of engineers and part of your time as an individual contributor. This managed balance enables you to work on programs as a technical contributor/leader and manage your systems engineering team. •Roles And Responsibilities (Section/People Manager) •As a member of the hardware engineering staff, help to shape the future of hardware engineering to optimize performance •Recruit, retain, train, recognize and develop hardware engineers to achieve their highest potential in alignment with the business needs •Assign team members as appropriate to programs, IRADs and proposals Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!