Principal Systems Engineer (Modeling & Simulation)

RTX•Tewksbury, MA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Systems Engineering Integrated Systems department is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer (Modeling & Simulation). The Integrated Systems team leads all aspects of systems engineering that drive the development of complex systems supporting the Raytheon Land and Air Defense Systems (LADS) mission area from our Tewksbury, MA location. The department supports Raytheon by cultivating a world-class group of systems thinkers who collaborate to architect technical solutions to some of the world’s toughest challenges. This is a full-time onsite position based in Tewksbury, MA.

Requirements

Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience.
Experience with Digital Signal Processing, including development or application of time-domain signal models to support system design and requirements analysis.
Experience with system modeling, algorithm development, test vectors, or analysis tools
Experience with MATLAB, Python, C/C++, and/or Fortran.

Nice To Haves

Experience reading and interpreting technical design drawings and electrical schematics, including application to system understanding and analysis.
Proven ability to take ownership of tasks and lead technical efforts across multiple stakeholders, with strong communication skills across all organizational levels.
Experience with system requirements capture, design, and decomposition, supporting end-to-end system development.
Strong background in radar system concepts including detection, discrimination, track and signal processing algorithms, and associated behaviors and performance analysis.
Experience with data analysis and statistics using large datasets, conducting studies (definition and execution), MATLAB-based model development, and producing credible analytical results for customer-facing presentations.

Responsibilities

Contribute and collaborate in a team environment receiving input from the program or team experts and contributing your knowledge to advance the discussions.
Communicate with cross-functional engineering teams to coordinate design plans and requirements analysis.
Contribute your knowledge of performance engineering practices and procedures to evaluate work across a wide range of intriguing subject areas.
Manage program technical risks by evaluating requirements and design aspects.
Develop models to validate proposed architectures and designs against requirements as well as help shape future tech growth.
Develop and maintain modeling tools incorporating Digital Signal Processing (DSP) with complex time domain elements.
Analyze data to understand performance and perform root cause analysis.
Incorporate radar system concepts including detection, discrimination, track and signal processing algorithms to model their behaviors and analyze performance.
Incorporate effector system concepts to model their behaviors and analyze performance.