SEIT Hardware Engineering Lead

Job Title:

SEIT Hardware Engineering Lead Job Code: 47036

Job Location:

Palm Bay, FL;
Millersville, MD;
Camden, NJ

Job Schedule:

9/80:
Employees work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked - and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

Lead the hardware engineering vision behind mission-critical Maritime products. The SEIT (System Engineering Integration & Test) Hardware Engineering Lead provides technical leadership across Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering, connecting functional expertise with system integration, verification, and test execution across the Power Systems, Acoustics and Imaging Systems, and Integrated Systems and Encryption divisions.

This highly visible leadership role is ideal for a technical leader who enjoys solving complex integration challenges, shaping consistent engineering practices, and working directly with engineers, program teams, Chief Engineers, and senior leaders. You will improve how Maritime hardware is designed, integrated, verified, and sustained while helping teams deliver reliable products for demanding customer missions.

The SEIT Hardware Engineering Lead serves as the Maritime technical focal point for mechanical and electrical engineering design, integration, verification, and test. This role has no direct reports and achieves results through technical credibility, collaboration, influence, and disciplined engineering leadership across a matrixed organization. The role establishes practical, repeatable approaches that improve hardware engineering consistency across Maritime divisions while preserving the flexibility required by individual programs and product lines.

The Lead identifies systemic technical risks, drives root-cause resolution, and strengthens upfront engineering rigor to reduce downstream rework, integration issues, and test delays. This position partners closely with Maritime SEIT, functional engineering leaders, Division Chief Engineers, Program Management, and program teams.

Essential Functions:

Provide technical leadership for mechanical and electrical engineering design, integration, verification, validation, and test across Maritime programs.

Develop and improve common hardware engineering processes, methods, standards, tools, and metrics that support consistent execution across Power Systems, Acoustics and Imaging Systems, and Integrated Systems and Encryption.

Partner with Maritime SEIT and program teams to define and review hardware design strategies, technical baselines, and readiness criteria.

Evaluate cross-program hardware engineering performance, identify systemic risks and capability gaps, and lead actions that improve quality, predictability, and first-time-right execution.

Apply broad mechanical and electrical engineering knowledge to resolve complex system-level issues involving interfaces, environmental requirements, reliability, producibility, manufacturability, testability, and lifecycle support.

Lead technical reviews and influence design decisions to ensure hardware solutions meet customer requirements, safety, mission assurance, schedule, and cost objectives.

Support proposal, capture, program startup, and execution-planning activities, including hardware engineering scope definition, technical risk assessment, staffing inputs, cost estimates, and basis-of-estimate development.

Coach and mentor hardware engineering technical leaders and teams, sharing best practices and strengthening technical depth across the Maritime organization.

Communicate technical status, risks, trade studies, recommendations, and improvement opportunities clearly to engineering leadership, program leadership, customers, and other stakeholders.

Technical Leadership and Influence:
Demonstrated ability to lead through…