Principal Mechanical Engineer - Test Equipment, Onsite (Tucson, AZ)

RTX•Tucson, AZ

1d•$107,500 - $204,500•Onsite

About The Position

This position is for a Principal Mechanical Engineer with a minimum of eight (8) years of professional experience. If you’re energized by designing, developing, documenting, and sustaining innovative test environment systems, the Test Equipment Engineering Directorate (TEE) would love to hear from you! This position is 100% onsite in Tucson, AZ. Tucson has a friendly, caring and laid-back atmosphere, combined with the innovation and energy of a metropolitan region and recognized as one of America’s 10 Best Small Cities. Surrounded by beautiful mountains, colorful Sonoran Desert landscape and majestic saguaro cacti, Tucson is blessed with some of nature’s best work. Tucson is known for its bright blue skies, and with more than 310 sunny days per year, Tucson’s fantastic weather lets residents enjoy the outdoors year-round. At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling – to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world. The Test Equipment Engineering (TEE) Directorate is a multi-discipline organization responsible for developing test solutions for all Raytheon Missile Defense (RMD) products. We are hands-on, designing with the latest technology and tools, and integrate state of the art test solutions with the most advanced engineering systems in the world. TEE products are located in engineering labs, in the field, and in production environments utilized for weapon system product verification, qualification, test data analysis, and production test solution development. TEE has job opportunities across all phases of the engineering lifecycle, including demonstrations, early engineering tests, design verification tests, production, and sustainment.

Requirements

Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM)
Minimum of eight (8) years of technical / engineering experience in mechanical design and/or production support
Minimum of five (5) years experience with CAD solid modeling tools and analysis tools with an emphasis on ProE / CREO Parametric
Experience with geometric dimensioning and tolerance analysis
Experience creating mechanical drawing packages
Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.
U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Nice To Haves

Design experience with mechanical and electronic packaging
Experience with Configuration Management processes, application, and tools (e.g., Windchill / cPDM)
Experience in Model Based Engineering or Model Based Design
Experience in mechanical sub-systems packaging, materials, thermal analysis, structural analysis, control systems, electrical hardware design, or large assembly development
Experience with environmental stress screening of hardware (e.g., vibration, shock, thermal, etc.)
Systems engineering experience
Knowledge of basic management approaches such as work scheduling, prioritizing, coaching and process execution
Experience in proposal development and the first four gates within the Integrated Product Development System (IPDS)
Experience with providing guidance and assistance to less experienced professionals and/or support employees

Responsibilities

Research, plan, design and develop mechanical test systems in areas including, but not limited to, vibration, thermal, hydraulic, radio frequency, and electro-optical for production testing environments
Integrate and validate test systems against stringent accuracy and reliability requirements
Evaluate production installations and recommend design modifications to eliminate malfunctions