Ci2 Chief Engineer

RTX•Richardson, TX

3d•$145,600 - $276,800•Onsite

About The Position

RTX is seeking an experienced Chief Engineer to serve as a program Chief Engineer for Ci2. The role directly supports program leadership in developing and executing the program’s technical, schedule, and financial baseline. The Chief Engineer leads engineering teams—including infrastructure, software, systems, and specialty disciplines—to achieve program and technical success aligned with customer and mission needs across one or more Ci2 programs. The position drives and prioritizes technical approaches and coordinates with internal and external stakeholders. The Chief Engineer ensures issues are understood and technical solutions and corrective actions are coordinated and implemented promptly. The role communicates risks and issues involving system performance, availability, or security to program leadership while maintaining the overall effort’s cost and schedule. The Chief Engineer also provides engineering leadership for capture activities, ensuring technical volume development complies with the Statement of Work, design-to-cost, performance, and schedule targets are met, and bid packages are vetted with manageable scope, risks, and opportunities identified. This is an onsite position in Richardson, Texas. An active, transferable U.S. government Top Secret/SCI clearance with Polygraph is required before starting; U.S. citizenship is required. The successful candidate must also be able to obtain special program access after starting, if applicable.

Requirements

Typically, a bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and at least 10 years of relevant experience, unless prohibited by local laws or regulations.
Engineering leadership experience.
Experience managing, driving, and prioritizing technical approaches that deliver on customer commitments.
Experience with Collection Orchestration systems and associated cloud-based processing architectures, technologies, interfaces, and external system interactions.
Experience supporting key decisions that affect product integrity, system performance, and system functionality.
Experience partnering with Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) to establish and report engineering metrics and Technical Performance Measures (TPMs), and provide engineering-approved inputs for Estimates at Completion (EACs) and/or proposals as required.
Experience communicating with all levels of management and individual contributors on a program team.
Active and transferable U.S. government-issued Top Secret/SCI clearance with Polygraph before the start date.
U.S. citizenship, as required for eligibility for a security clearance.
Ability to obtain special program access after the start date, if applicable.

Nice To Haves

15 or more years of industry experience.
Experience in a technical leadership role for a large, multidisciplinary engineering team.
Experience preparing and delivering briefings to customers, stakeholders, and internal management.
Systems Engineering experience with requirements decomposition to software subsystems, software use-case development, and software feature development.
Ability to troubleshoot complex software systems and develop issue-closure plans with coordinated solutions across internal teams and external stakeholders.
Experience supporting program technical review boards, including risk and opportunity management, engineering, and architecture review boards.
Experience communicating status, results, and recovery plans, if needed, to program leadership.
Experience creating technical presentations for internal and external customers.
Familiarity with cloud architectures and deployment requirements for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Experience working with program management to develop high-value, low-cost, quick-turn customer solutions.

Responsibilities

Lead engineering teams across infrastructure, software, systems, and specialty disciplines to achieve program and technical success aligned with customer and mission needs.
Drive and prioritize technical approaches and coordinate across internal and external stakeholders.
Ensure technical issues are understood and solutions and corrective actions are coordinated and implemented promptly.
Communicate risks or issues involving system performance, availability, or security to program leadership.
Maintain cost and schedule for the overall effort.
Provide engineering leadership for capture activities.
Ensure technical volume development complies with the Statement of Work and achieves design-to-cost, performance, and schedule targets.
Ensure bid packages are thoroughly vetted, with scope, risks, and opportunities identified and manageable.

Benefits

Relocation eligibility.
Medical insurance.
Dental insurance.
Vision insurance.
Life insurance.
Short-term disability coverage.
Long-term disability coverage.
401(k) match.
Flexible spending accounts.
Flexible work schedules.
Employee assistance program.
Employee Scholar Program.
Parental leave.
Paid time off.
Holidays.
Potential eligibility for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs, subject to position level, collective-bargaining coverage, and other factors.