Engineer II - Electronic Warfare Systems

RTX•Fort Wayne, IN

21h•$68,900 - $131,100•Onsite

About The Position

The Electronic Warfare and Airborne Sensors department within the Space and Air Sensors organization has an immediate opening for an Engineer II - Electronic Warfare Systems to support the design, development, and testing of cutting-edge Electronic Warfare (EW) technology and sensor systems for a suite of products across multiple programs. This position supports a variety of activities including but not limited to concept development, requirements management, and design oversight for RF systems, production support, failure analysis, supplier engagement, test planning and implementation, and/or system integration, verification, and validation (IV&V). This is an ONSITE Position in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Requirements

Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline (preferably Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or Physics) and 2 years of prior relevant systems engineering, RF system design, digital and/or analog signal processing, waveform and signal modulation analysis, and/or algorithm implementation and testing experience
Experience producing and presenting system design information and/or system test results to internal or external customers, demonstrated through past roles, deliverables, or project responsibilities
Willingness to complete occasional business travel, up to 20%
The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Nice To Haves

Experience with development, implementation, and test of RF jamming algorithms
MATLAB, PathWave ADS, and/or PathWave EMPro for simulation and design of RF systems
Experience writing software in C, C++, and/or Python, as demonstrated through prior engineering roles, project work, or technical deliverables.
RF receiver/exciter product design, development, and/or test experience in the Electronic Attack (i.e., signals jamming) sub-domain of Electronic Warfare
Embedded systems and embedded programming. Experience with design/implementation of embedded systems on FPGA hardware.
Familiarity with Model‑Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) principles and documented experience using MBSE tools such as Cameo or comparable modeling environments
Experience working within Agile development frameworks, including use of tools such as Jira and Confluence for task management, documentation, or workflow tracking
DOORS for requirements management

Responsibilities

Understand the customer’s functional/operational needs and participate in requirements decomposition, overseeing proper allocation of technical elements
Support system integration, test, design verification, fault identification, failure resolution, and/or acceptance of production hardware
Provide engineering support to lab test and qualification activities, providing engineering oversight to the test, evaluation, and analysis of issues pertaining to system hardware and firmware functionality and performance
Provide support for situations including (but not limited to) customer inquiries, field failures, product obsolescence, system enhancements, new product development, integration, and transition to production
Evaluate and assess the performance of developmental electronic warfare systems, including signal processing subsystems
May be called upon to support bid and proposal efforts by providing labor estimations and/or material cost estimations
Able to balance multiple, varying commitments, exercising discretion and with moderately low direct oversight