Principal Hardware RF Electrical Engineer
Huntsville, ALFull-time$121–205K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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BAE Systems seeks a Principal RF Electrical Engineer for its Hardware Engineering organization in Huntsville, Alabama. The role designs hardware solutions for Precision Strike programs and works with colleagues across disciplines to meet customer requirements in demanding environments. The position focuses on RF and microwave design, testing, and validation, with collaboration and leadership responsibilities. The posting describes a flexible work environment and a 9/80 schedule.
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Job Description
Looking for an exciting career that utilizes your boundless creativity, technical innovation, and leadership skills? We Protect Those Who Protect Us is our mission, and we re looking for engineers who share our passion in developing first-of-its-kind technologies and equipment to protect our warfighters on all fronts. From our state-of-the-art facility in Huntsville, AL, our Electronic Solutions Hardware Engineering organization welcomes an energetic and motivated Principal RF Electrical Engineer. Have a background in RF electrical engineering developing hardware solutions for customers? Willing to learn and collaborate with an expansive team of world class professionals? Fantastic! With a flexible work environment including a 9/80 work schedule and competitive benefits, come join us today and see the opportunities in store for you!
From around the globe, our employees work on the world s most advanced electronics from detecting threats for F-35 pilots to illuminating the night for soldiers. Spanning air, land, sea, and space, we are developing the technology of tomorrow, delivered today. Drawing strength from our diversity, we re innovating for the future. And you can, too. Our engineers are the staple of our company and we re more than 5,000 strong. With our robust offering of educational and career development opportunities, your chances to grow are limitless. Our work culture provides you a chance to change the world without giving up your personal life. Sound like a team you want to be a part of? Come and continue building your career with BAE Systems.
Within our growing Hardware Engineering community, you ll have opportunity to work the technology focused programs within our Precision Strike (PS) businesses. Here, we turn ideas into products ranging from guidance systems for smart munitions to electro-optic and laser technologies that protect our nation s airborne platforms. In this role, you will be designing truly amazing hardware solutions to meet challenging customer requirements in order to survive the harshest of environmental conditions. Embracing a design it right the first time philosophy, we focus on factors including affordability, manufacturing, quality, and reliability in order to exceed our customer expectations every day.
At BAE Systems, our engineers interact with colleagues and peers of various disciplines and backgrounds to arrive at innovative solutions to problems. We encourage collaboration and foster an environment of knowledge sharing and continuous learning. Take the first step towards achieving your career goals with us and apply today!
Required Education, Experience, & Skills
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Bachelor s degree in Electrical Engineering with 8 years experience
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Experience with testing and troubleshooting RF and Microwave component/subsystem such as up-converters, down converters, power amplifiers, waveform generators, RF modulators, and limiters.
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Experience with designing between C-band through Ka-band
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Experience with designing RF Circuit Card Assemblies (CCA)
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Experience with RF principles and test methodologies.
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Experience in RF testing and validation.
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Experience with automated test scripts and software tools.
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Experience with any of the following tools: MATLAB, Python, Computer Simulation Technologies (CST), Microwave Design Studio, High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS) and Advanced Design System (ADS).
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Leadership experience of small design teams
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Experience in the development of engineering documentation and presentations
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Eligible to obtain a DOD Security Clearance
Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
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Master s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering
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Knowledge of design for manufacturing (DFM) principles
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Active DoD security clearance
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $120874 - $205486
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.
Principal Hardware RF Electrical Engineer
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How this job compares
Set against the 1,110 open Hardware Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$121–205K/yr
- US median$146–245K/yr795 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $163K, is 19% below the US median midpoint ($202K) — in the lowest quarter of Hardware Engineering salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 19 open Hardware Engineering jobs in Alabama and 1,110 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Hardware Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (689 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 358 of the 1,110 open Hardware Engineering jobs (32%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 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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