
Senior Principal II Software Engineer - Lead
Merrimack, NHFull-time$150–254K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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Job overview
BAE Systems is seeking a Software Engineering Lead to develop high-quality, high-performance software for fielded electronics platforms supporting defense customers. The role leads software teams and design activities, coordinates across engineering disciplines, and supports program planning, capture, and staffing. Candidates need a qualifying engineering or computer science degree and related experience, Agile development experience, and a current Top Secret/SCI clearance.
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Job Description
BAE Systems in NH is currently undergoing an exciting period of growth. We are looking for talented Software professionals to help us create the world s most advanced solutions in areas including Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Aircraft Protection, Radar Warning and Electronic Attack for our defense related customers. For this position, we are looking for a Software Engineering Lead to apply their skills to developing high-quality, high-performance software for fielded electronics platforms.
Typical duties assigned to this position:
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Lead a software team through Agile software engineering design and development
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Employ your expertise, decision skills, and independent judgment in technical areas
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Lead Design activities to achieve program success
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Communicate essential information and coordinate with engineering disciplines and functions
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Develop program schedules, earned value criteria, and productivity metrics for efficient performance
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Ensure the established Software Development Process is implemented successfully
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Support important program capture and proposal teams with software baselines that include development and cost/scheduling estimating
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Work with Discipline Section Leads to determine program staffing needs and right person/right job
Required Education, Experience, & Skills
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Bachelor s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Software Engineering with 8 years of related experience, or a Master of Science with 6 years of related experience
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Agile Development experience
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Must have a current Top Secret / SCI clearance
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Experience developing software using CI/CD in a Linux development environment utilizing containers with C, C and Python.
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Experience with CUDA development
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Experience developing applications that cover distributed processing, signal processing, multi-threaded, real time, embedded, low latency, device control, and Software Defined Radio applications.
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Motivated individual with strong problem-solving abilities
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Willingness to perform a wide variety of related tasks
Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
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Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, ActiveMQ, RHEL, Elastic Stack / Kibana tools.
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Experience in EVM, Performance metrics, STIG evaluations, Risk and Opportunity management
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Experience in Git, GitLab, CI/CD software delivery
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Software Architect training / certificate.
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Provide, directly or indirectly, top level technical leadership for the assigned design discipline(s) including selection and exploitation of promising new technologies, long-term goals, etc.
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $149603 - $254317
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 40,581 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$150–254K/yr
- New Hampshire median$115–210K/yr270 salary ranges
- US median$135–217K/yr32,282 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $202K, is 27% above the New Hampshire median midpoint ($159K) — in the middle half of Software Engineer salary ranges in New Hampshire.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 302 open Software Engineer jobs in New Hampshire and 40,581 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New Hampshire
- Oracle84 open
- BAE Systems (this employer)73 open
- Meta27 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 6 years of experience; Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (32,915 postings).
- Education
- 14,143 of the 40,581 open Software Engineer jobs (35%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 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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