Senior Principal Systems Engineer - Lead Systems Engineer (Onsite)

RTX•Tucson, AZ

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Systems Engineering and Test Capabilities (SETC) organization is looking to hire a Senior Principal Systems Engineer to serve as the SM-2 Lead Systems (LSE). The SM-2 production program has several multi-year contracts with both FMS and Domestic customers. The LSE is responsible for technical guidance and mentorship of multi-disciplined engineering teams. The LSE is also one of the senior technical interfaces with internal and external customers, industry partners, contractors, suppliers, and other stakeholders. The SM-2 LSE is responsible for supporting the Chief Engineer (CE) in helping define and maintain the appropriate level of technical rigor and coordination across functions and engineering disciplines across the various production and sustainment efforts within the program. The candidate will also need prior multidiscipline engineering knowledge and experience, as well as production experience. The LSE is expected to mentor engineers both technically and with their career. The primary focus of the LSE will be supporting current Production and Sustainment contracts, as SM-2 has several multi-discipline efforts, including missile performance assessments, flight test and flight failure investigations, and factory test requirements investigations and optimization projects. The LSE is expected to also lead a small technical team of Systems Engineers and to collaborate with CEs, Production Managers, and engineering leadership for any current and upcoming technical projects on multiple All Up Round (AUR) configurations.

Requirements

Typically requires a Bachelor’s in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM preferred) and a minimum of 10 years of prior engineering experience.
Experience leading full systems engineering lifecycle.
Experience in producing and testing guidance electronics systems or electronics subsystem products in the Defense Industry
Experience leading cross-functional teams
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
Secret - Current Security Clearance
Active and existing security clearance required on day 1

Nice To Haves

An advanced degree in Engineering, Science, Mathematics, or related discipline
Raytheon Level 4 (or higher) Certified Lead Systems Engineer
12 or more years of relevant work experience including prior experience in a technical leadership role and including experience across the development and production lifecycle
Experience with / Understanding of RF electronics system performance
Experience in Naval Power missile system architectures and products
Excellent communication, technical writing, oral presentation, and interpersonal skills
Experience across the product lifecycle, including concept development, architecture, design, integration, verification, production
Experience with test/support equipment
Ability to develop effective internal and external customer/stakeholder relationships to ensure customer/stakeholder satisfaction and continued business
Experience with Engineering Risk and Opportunity (R&O) and FRACAS Management

Responsibilities

Protect the system technical integrity to ensure we deliver a product that meets the customers’ and warfighters’ needs while working through challenges to accelerate
Coordinate efforts across multiple disciplines and program efforts, to include coordination with external customer entities
Communicate to Raytheon leadership to provide technical program status, accomplishments, issues, and help needed, while influencing the IPTs/CPTs to ensure appropriate and effective program alignment and teamwork.
Provide guidance to multiple teams of multi-disciplined engineers in support of product production.
Interact and coordinate with program stakeholders, including program customers, government organizations, industry partners, contractors, suppliers, and other stakeholders to influence and guide program production efforts.
Drive hardware obsolescence verifications, manufacturing qualifications, test optimization and yield improvement efforts.
Rapidly assimilate and apply knowledge in varied and disparate technical fields to achieve balanced system performance.
Accurately interpret internal and external customer requirements and objectives, effectively decomposing such into actionable direction to the program team and stakeholders.
Identify and mitigate both immediate and strategic risks by making decisions that balance required and desired technical capabilities against the Missile Performance Specification (MPS) and Weapon Specification requirements.
Support incremental break-in of upgrades and system improvements
Help drive positive change within the production environment as a key stakeholder in Failure Review Boards, FRACAS activities, and other continuous improvement efforts
Core Team Lead of the ERB/CCB activities