Principal Software Engineer - Gen4 Radar / Ground Station

RTX•El Segundo, CA

19h•Onsite

About The Position

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. Raytheon Space and Air division in El Segundo, CA is seeking a Principal Software Engineer [Embedded / Radar] to be part of their product development teams for the Gen4 Tactical Airborne Radar group.

Requirements

Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience.
Development experience coding in C/C++/ReactJS, ESRI ArcGIS, AMQP, Google protobuf, docker, Java, PostgreSQL or related languages/tools in radar-development software is required.
Experience working on UNIX, Red Hat Linux, Windows or other RTOS.
Experience as an Agile Product Owner, Scrum Master, and ability to work multiple software baselines overseeing a team of 7-8 developers.
Active and transferable U.S. Government issued Top Secret security clearance is required prior to start date.
U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
Must be able to obtain "special access programs" (SCI/SAP/SAR) for continuation of employment.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in an agile/scrum team hyper-collaborative team environment using typical agile oriented tool suite.
Experience leading a Test Readiness Review for a Factory Acceptance Test.
Experience with ground station sensor pre-mission planning, ad-hoc mission planning, radar Command & Control (C2), radar health & status monitoring, and image product screening.
Supported and presented at quarterly Program Increment (PI) customer meeting reviews.
Mentors team members and have performed new hire onboarding.
Experience performing classified Data Transfers as a Data Transfer Agent (DTA), works with DT/IA to get SW/HW approvals for deployment onto classified systems.
Experience with implementing software changes to resolve Fortify findings, providing inputs and updates to the Plan Of Action & Milestones (POA&M), and assembled all required artifacts onto media and working a Certificate to Field (CtF) with the Delegated Authorizing Official from 16th AF cyber team.
Experience with JUnit and user Interface Eggplant automated test tools to support regression & automated testing.
Experience with design, code, integration, and test of software into a large software baseline and large system.
Experience developing Ground station Software applications.
Direct experience with Agile methodologies.
Proven analytical skills with the ability to troubleshoot tool and system operation performance issues.
Experience with large complex systems such as ground stations and airborne sensors.
Support deployment and integration and test of ground software at CONUS & OCONUS sites.

Responsibilities

Work on complex technical problems and provide highly innovative solutions.
Lead agile software development team as a SME and product owner for ASARS-2A.
Perform software development in support of ground station software for ASARS-2A.
Mentor team members and onboard new hires.
Facilitate and run weekly customer meetings.
Effectively contribute at all phases of the SW development lifecycle, including SW/HW integration.
Develop RT SW, specifically pertaining to various radar mode independent functions and capabilities, using various languages, tools, applications.
Strong investigation and troubleshooting skills to assess issues and develop solutions.
Work effectively with team across multiple disciplines, internal and external.
Effectively contribute to program and customer meetings/reviews.
Support the program leads as needed regarding technical decision making, problem resolution.
Help to ensure performance to technical, cost, schedule, quality.
Support of system and software requirements and architecture generation and analysis as needed.
Contribute to the successful completion of program milestones and customer deliverables.