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Mission Engineer

BAE Systems

Sterling, VAFull-time$133–226K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$133–226K/yr
Location
Sterling, VA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

BAE Systems seeks a Mission Engineer to support a new enterprise lab across multiple classification levels. The role uses multi-source intelligence analysis to address national security issues and support customer missions, including intelligence production, emerging methodologies, and AI/ML capabilities. The engineer will develop customer-focused plans and recommendations, validate work against real and simulated data, and brief stakeholders and potentially customers.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Multi-Source Intelligence Analysis, requiredGIS Tools, requiredImagery Exploitation, requiredCommunication, requiredCross-Disciplinary Collaboration, requiredOrganizational Skills, requiredFollow-Through, requiredProblem-Solving, requiredMicrosoft Office, requiredData Analytics, nice to haveInterpersonal Skills, nice to haveCreative Innovation, nice to have

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience, required8 Years Work Experience, requiredIntelligence Mission Support, required

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave

Full job description

Job Description

BAE Systems, a top ten prime contractor to the U.S. Department of War, enables the U.S. government to transform data into intelligence and provides engineering, integration and sustainment support for critical military platforms and systems. Intelligence & Security provides services and products to the Department of War, the intelligence community, federal law enforcement officials, and troops deployed around the world.

We are looking for a Missions Engineer experienced in delivering comprehensive multi-source analysis, reporting, and intelligence production supporting a new Enterprise lab environment across multiple classification levels. The lab supports new and emerging paradigms to support and enhance customer capabilities and tradecraft. The enterprise lab environment will encompass multi-intelligence data infusion to enable innovative tradecraft development modeling and simulation to provide solutions for customer problems and needs. The Mission Engineer will utilize intelligence and information from multiple sources to assess, interpret, forecast, and explain a broad range of national security issues and developments, both regional and functional in nature.

As the Mission Engineer you will:

  • Develop plans and approaches to support customer activities that advance tactical or strategic objectives

  • Aggregate and distill complex data and relationships into succinct and effective language to inform customer decisions

  • Assess and provide recommendations on emerging intelligence methodologies and tools

  • Generate supporting research and products to advance the customer s mission

  • Gather, synthesize, and analyze intelligence information in support of objectives related to the customer mission

  • Support AI/ML mission capabilities by creating, reviewing, validating, and refining data.

  • Support intelligence production, reporting, briefings, and customer-facing analytic requirements.

  • Perform analyses against system performance requirements to verify compliance and/or make recommendations about proposed requirements changes.

  • Validate work against real and simulated data making corrections for non-ideal data artifacts.

  • Brief internal stakeholders, internal subject matter experts, and potentially customers.

  • Build collaborative relationships with key leaders and peers, both internally and externally, across the organization.

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Required Education, Experience, & Skills

  • Bachelor's Degree and 8 years work experience or equivalent experience

  • Experience supporting Intelligence Community, national-level, or military intelligence missions.

  • Demonstrated experience conducting analysis using intelligence and information from multiple sources to assess, interpret, forecast, and explain a range of national security issues and developmentsincluding both regional and functional topics.

  • Proficiency with GIS or imagery exploitation tools such as SOCET GXP, ArcGIS, QGIS, RemoteView, ERDAS, ENVI, Google Earth, or similar platforms.

  • Strong communication skills with the ability to work across engineering disciplines

  • Excellent organizational and follow through skills.

  • Strong communication (written and verbal) skills.

  • Detail oriented with problem-solving skills.

  • Proficient in Microsoft Office

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

  • Knowledge of data analytics

  • Strong analytical, organizational, and interpersonal skills; ability to creatively innovate and tenaciously seek solutions

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $132962 - $226035

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.

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How this job compares

Set against the 770 open Intelligence Analyst jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$133–226K/yr
  • Virginia median$100–153K/yr186 salary ranges
  • US median$91–150K/yr592 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $179K, is 41% above the Virginia median midpoint ($127K) — in the top quarter of Intelligence Analyst salary ranges in Virginia.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 219 open Intelligence Analyst jobs in Virginia and 770 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Virginia
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Intelligence Analyst postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (651 postings).
Education
216 of the 770 open Intelligence Analyst jobs (28%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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