Senior Principal Systems Engineer- Integration and Test Focal - Secure Systems

RTXCedar Rapids, IA
$132,400 - $251,600Onsite

About The Position

The High Assurance Devices Engineering team seeks a Senior Principal Systems Engineer- Integration and Test Lead with a passion for innovation and the drive to see new technology and capability matured into fielded solutions. The Integration and Test lead is a leader who is responsible for ensuring the successful verification and validation for High Assurance Devices across the department. This role will contribute to a team responsible for systems and cyber security engineering tasks related to our next-generation security-enabled mission computing, crypto, and cross-domain technologies, maturing products from low TRL through a program of record accreditation and factory production.

Requirements

  • Experience with the systems development process, including requirements capture, design, integration, and verification/validation
  • Experience working in air-gapped CUI or secure lab environment
  • Active and transferable SECRET clearance is required prior to start date
  • U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
  • Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience

Nice To Haves

  • Familiarity with the Scaled Agile framework
  • Experience with automated software build, test, and deployment
  • Experience with CI/CD Pipeline tools
  • Exceptionally strong communication skills, experience presenting test metrics to program leadership
  • Experienced with generating Integration and Test Plans for Embedded Systems and Digital Hardware
  • Experience with tools such as DOORS, CAMEO or similar
  • Experience working with a certification authority

Responsibilities

  • Perform analysis', architecture and design, primarily focusing on the Integration and Testing phases of systems development
  • Perform functional analysis', trade studies, requirements allocation for Integration and Test
  • Perform technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total system solutions
  • Lead Test Readiness Reviews with Customer and Certification Agencies
  • Collaborate with Systems Architects, Product Owners, Chief Engineers, to generate Integration and Test Environments and Plans
  • Lead Verification, Validation, and Qualification efforts in both Unclassified and Classified environments
  • Support multiple programs simultaneously, mentoring junior engineers on Integration, Validation, Verification, and Qualification

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
  • Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
  • Tuition reimbursement program
  • Student Loan Repayment Program
  • Life insurance and disability coverage
  • Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
  • Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
  • Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
  • Adoption Assistance
  • Autism Benefit
  • Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
  • Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
  • Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
  • Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
  • Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
  • This position is eligible for relocation assistance
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