Sr. Engineer, Captive Flight Test Lead

RTX•Tucson, AZ

6d•$86,800 - $165,200•Onsite

About The Position

Raytheon’s Systems Engineering & Test Capabilities organization integrates, verifies, and validates products by exercising systems in laboratories and field environments, analyzing performance, and ensuring products meet requirements. The Sr. Engineer, Captive Flight Test Lead performs integration, verification, and field qualification testing, including laboratory, van, tower, and manned flight testing as part of an engineering flight test crew. The role leads up to 10 flight test engineers across multiple programs and supports test planning, execution, data collection, analysis, reporting, and coordination with customers and specialized performance and navigation experts. The position is based onsite in Tucson, Arizona, with support across multiple Tucson sites and 25% travel. It involves frequent direct interaction with government customers, coordination of off-site flight tests, and preparation or modification of documentation for formal test reviews. An active and transferable U.S. government security clearance is required before starting; U.S. citizenship is required for clearance eligibility. Candidates must have an active or be able to obtain and maintain up to Class III FAA flight clearance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline, such as Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Physics, or Math, typically with at least five years of relevant experience.
Active U.S. government-issued security clearance, or ability to obtain and maintain one; an active and transferable clearance is required prior to the start date, and the posting states ability to obtain an interim clearance is required prior to the start date. U.S. citizenship is required for security-clearance eligibility.
Active or ability to obtain and maintain up to Class III FAA flight clearance.
At least one year of experience with captive carriage or flying test bed flight testing.
Experience with van and tower testing and hardware systems integration, including design and build of sensor pods and aircraft test racks.
Experience with design methods and approvals from lash-up through engineering release artifacts.
Platform integration experience in fixed-wing or rotary configurations, with verification and validation methods and experience evaluating requirements and designing tests to satisfy them.
Experience coordinating multiple team members’ schedules for critical program needs and coordinating with customers and subcontractors to plan and execute off-site flight tests.
Cost account manager experience with minimum Raytheon PM level 7 certification or equivalent.

Nice To Haves

Experience integrating hardware systems and a high-level understanding of digital signal processing algorithms, advanced waveforms, antenna patterns, and techniques used in resource-constrained missile systems.
Experience with spectral and temporal effects for sensors and backgrounds, including clutter, multipath, self-interference, grounding and shielding, and mitigation factors.
Experience integrating RF sensor output, including modulated waveforms or streams of digital samples used for real-time representation of RF scenes, and data collection or analysis including telemetry.
Test systems design experience and collaboration across electrical, electronics, mechanical, software, and computer engineering disciplines.
Experience integrating test equipment, telemetry data analysis tools, and missile systems host platforms.
Experience managing and presenting technical data to stakeholders and customers in design reviews and technical interchange meetings.
Experience troubleshooting and with failure processes.

Responsibilities

Perform integration, verification, and field qualification testing to confirm systems meet specifications and requirements, including lab, van, tower, and manned flight testing.
Lead a team of up to 10 flight test engineers executing work across multiple test programs.
Collect, review, and analyze test data and provide detailed reports of results.
Work with performance and navigation experts to design test events.
Trace and/or correct faults in mechanical or electronic systems; apply failure reporting, analysis, corrective action, and/or fault tree analysis methods.
Create or modify documentation supporting formal testing reviews, including Test Plans and Procedures, Test Readiness Review (TRR), Consent to Ship (CTS), and Test Data Review (TDR) packages.
Interact directly and frequently with government customers.
Coordinate team-member schedules to meet program needs and coordinate with customers and subcontractors to plan and execute off-site flight tests.
Support multiple Tucson locations and travel approximately 25% of the time.

Benefits

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Life insurance
Short-term disability insurance
Long-term disability insurance
401(k) match
Flexible spending accounts
Flexible work schedules
Employee assistance program
Employee Scholar Program
Parental leave
Paid time off
Holidays
Potential annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation, subject to eligibility and program conditions