Senior Principal Engineer, Radar Systems Engineering **Minimum $50K Sign On Bonus**

Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RIS) is the provider of advanced electrical scanned antenna (AESA) radar sensor systems for multiple platforms including:  the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 Aircraft, the Air Force’s F/A-15 Aircraft, and the Gen 5.x Family of Systems (FOS) Radars for multiple platforms.  These AESA Radar Systems provide the war fighter with the most accurate and timely information available for the network-centric battlefield.  The Secured Sensor Solutions Mission Area within the Systems Engineering Center is seeking committed engineering leaders who are passionate about creating innovative and cost-effective solutions for the warfighter. This highly dynamic environment requires both speed and efficiency in addition to maintaining product quality, functionality and traceability. Applicants are expected to be self-motivated, detail oriented and a demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with all levels of management and individual contributors on the program team through strong written and verbal communication skills.

The Future Aircraft Systems and Technology Department within SEIT supports the development of new capabilities for existing radar systems as well as development of Next-Generation Radar Systems for the US Government.  We are a growth oriented organization committed to and passionate about supporting our nation’s warfighters. This is your chance to join a dynamic team working across multiple disciplines with opportunities to further expand your knowledge and grow your career.  This department provides the full range of systems design, analysis, integration, verification, and validation activities in support of SAS radar programs.

Primary Responsibilities:

• The section manager (SM) performs direct line management activities for 10-20 engineers responsible for System Engineering, Mode Development, Design Architecting, Requirements Development, Analysis, and Test for airborne Radar programs. 

• The SM is a key technical contributor to the programs supported by the section, as well as a central contributor to new business development activities. The SM activities include career development,  performance evaluation, and management of their people, resource acquisition and allocation, championing best engineering practices, actively engaging with programs to facilitate and ensure proper execution, and development of proposals.

• The SM ensures two-way communication for section members, serves as a liaison to the programs ensuring technical, cost and schedule parameters, as well as overseeing section member job assignments, performance and recognition.

• The SM’s technical contributions to programs may include:

  • Technical team leadership to perform requirements development, mode development, analysis, or integration and test activities.

  • Technical team leadership for a team of engineers in the development and implementation of Software Analysis tools applied to Radar Sensor products

  • Participation in peer reviews throughout the product lifecycle of design, development, integration and test, and requirements verification

  • Lead Root Cause Analysis utilizing Raytheon Technologies Best Practices (R6Sigma) and Tools to identify and analyze Radar System anomalies

  • Design and development of mathematical algorithms for mode/sensor implementation

  • Design and development of radar waveforms for imaging, target search, track and identification

  • Lead development and maturation of fault tabulation and prediction tools utilizing Matlab, Python, Excel, etc.

  • Perform technical and programmatic presentations to both internal and external customers

  • Develop and maintain all program requirements for airborne Radar Sensor Programs

  • Lead/support the development and flow down of systems requirements, error budget trees, and performance modeling, simulation and analysis

  • Lead/support design reviews, test/production readiness reviews, gate reviews, trade studies and other program/customer reviews, as required, to keep the team on track

  • Lead/support business proposals and ROMs, as required by the programs

  • Provide cost and schedule estimates/impacts for proposed engineering changes or BOEs

  • Support the professional development of team members and ensure senior technical personnel "pass on" knowledge to more junior personnel

Required Skills:

• • Minimum of 10 years of Systems Engineering experience

  • Understanding of Airborne Radar systems and their principles of design, development, requirements verification, test planning, test execution, data analysis, and operations support

  • Experience in preparing and delivering briefings to management and customers

  • Capable of effectively working in a team environment, often under tight deadlines

  • Demonstrated desire to successfully pursue new challenges, improve and broaden technical skills, seek greater responsibilities, and increase individual value to the organization

  • Familiarity with the execution of technical reviews (SRRs, PDRs, CDRs, TIMS) and Independent Reviews (IRs) for gates

• Leadership

  • Communication, integrity, judgment, coordination, influence

  • Actively engages, drives change to achieve execution excellence and solve critical issues

  • Examples of leading a technical team in development efforts

  • Mentoring and providing career development direction to junior engineers

• Must have an existing Active Secret and have ability to readily obtain Special Access security clearances

• U.S. Citizenship status is required as this position needs an active U.S. Security Clearance as of day one of employment

Desired Skills: 

• Radar system architecture, Design, Hardware Integration, and Test.

• Analysis which predicts overall system performance, error margins and performance budgets (link budget)

• Experience in hardware and software integration of embedded, real-time complex systems

• Proposal development and authoring technical volumes

• Technical mentoring as subject matter expert in Radar Systems

• Experience as a IV&V Lead or Technical Lead on a previous program

Required Education: BS Degree in Engineering, Physics, Math, System Engineering or related discipline.
Desired Education: MS Degree in Engineering, Physics, Math, System Engineering or related discipline.

U.S. Citizenship status is required as this position needs an active U.S. Security Clearance as of day one of employment. 

This position requires a U.S. person or the ability to obtain an Export Authorization from the appropriate government agency for non-U.S. persons

Relocation Eligible - Relocation assistance available provided final candidate meets eligibility requirements

Employee Referral Award Eligibility: Only employees currently within RMD and RI&S have the potential to receive a Referral Award for submitting a referral to RMD and RI&S roles.  ALL eligibility requirements must be met to receive the Referral Awarding

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