Senior Principal RF Mechanical Engineer

RTX•Tucson, AZ

9h•Onsite

About The Position

The Effector RF Design Team at Raytheon is seeking a talented Senior Principal Engineer to join our team in Tucson, AZ. The candidate will be responsible for providing innovative design solutions for the packaging of antennas, RF Circuit Card Assemblies, radomes, and RF test equipment. The selected candidate will be expected to participate on multidiscipline programs, provide technical oversight, delegate tasks, and work with the Engineering organization to establish technology roadmaps, enable modernization, and contribute to general innovation. In addition, the candidate will work with customer personnel and program leadership to define and refine requirements to validate hardware compliance. The candidate will be responsible for providing guidance, coaching, mentoring, and training to other employees across the business within the candidate’s areas of expertise. This position is an onsite role, located in Tucson, AZ.

Requirements

Bachelor’s in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 10 years of prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 8 years of experience
Performing design and analysis for the packaging of RF products (e.g. Circuit Card Assemblies, antennas, radomes, RF test equipment, harnesses and interconnects) throughout the product life cycle to include three dimensional (3D) Computer Aided Design (CAD) software
Creation of Technical Data Packages (TDPs) using Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) for RF products
Ability to obtain INTERIM U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date with the ability to obtain special program access after start.

Nice To Haves

Design experience with RF-specific products such as antennas, missile bodies, circuit card assemblies, and/or RF test chambers
Master of Science (MS) in mechanical engineering or electrical engineering
Experience serving as a Responsible Engineering Authority (REA), Control Account Manager (CAM), and/or Integrated Product Team Lead (IPTL)
Supplier management for built to print or build to specification RF products
Experience in creating and presenting professional level design documentation to company leadership and program customers
Creo Simulate or ANSYS Workbench for preliminary structural and thermal analysis of design concepts
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Failure investigation, root cause identification, and corrective action implementation
Familiarity or direct experience with RF Printed Circuit Board (PCB) material stack ups and Circuit Card Assembly (CCA) layout
One dimensional tolerance analysis for complex mechanical assemblies
Development of technical proposals, engineering project estimates, and/or white papers
Requirements verification test planning and execution

Responsibilities

Guide mechanical design activities involving RF hardware
Guide others by understanding group dynamics and capitalizing on multi-disciplined strengths while mitigating gaps
Orchestrate trade studies to determine the best solution for complex and multifaceted problems and developing a plan forward.
Convey the highest quality work while ensuring cost, schedule, and performance expectations are consistently met or exceeded.
Regularly convey task status on complex issues and influences strategic plans across multiple groups, programs, engineering and customer leadership
Seek opportunities to fill any role necessary to help ensure business unit success