Principal Systems Engineer with AF Weather Experience

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At Raytheon the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of todays mission and stay ahead of tomorrows threat. Our team solves tough meaningful problems that create a safer more secure world.

• We are seeking a Senior Systems/Software Engineer to join our Engineering team in Omaha Nebraska with a Meteorological background in Air Force Weather to join the AFW (Air Force Weather) Enterprise programs and expand our distinguished team to develop a stateoftheart network of meteorological data and applications.

• The development of this national asset will provide global coverage monitor environmental conditions collect disseminate and process data about the Earths weather atmosphere oceans land and nearspace environment.

• The AFW Enterprise software provides a cloud migration implementation of the 2nd largest data repository in the Department of Defense.

• The teams work in a DevSecOps cadence deploying meteorological microservices to Air Force Weather and the Department of Defense.

• The AFW Enterprise programs are looking for a qualified systems/software engineer to join the AFW enterprise team as a Principal Systems/Software Engineer with a Meteorological background in Air Force Weather.

• This position can be Onsite or Remote

What You Will Do

• You will be responsible for shaping a vision of where Air Force weather enterprise needs to pivot based on changing requirements and operational needs.

• Supporting the requirements analysis meteorological testing meteorological verification design and integration of software.

• Responsible for meteorological accuracy supporting software validation and verification qualification configuration control and documentation at the component level.

• Involved with most phases of the software development life cycle including SW requirements analysis use case support detailed design generating test plans and ensuring code meets requirements through unit testing updating technical documents software integration support problem detection and resolving discrepancy reports.

• Works in an Agile development team (e.g. Sprints Scrums Backlogs).

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a Bachelor of Science in Meteorology IT related field preferred or (STEM) focused Science Technology Engineering or Mathematics and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant Meteorology Systems/Software Engineering experience or 6 years of relevant experience with a Masters degree in Meteorology IT or (STEM).

• Requires 3 years experience in Air Force Weather operations Experience with numerical models that support Air Force Weather: Galwem LIS GEPS Advect Cloud DCF4 ODLA WW3 FAROP OSAA OSAD. This includes practical experience working with the supported data formats netcdf GRIB1 GRIB2 and Zarr.

• Experience with pointbased/Alphanumeric products that support Air Force Weather: Observations (IWXXM and BUFFR) TAFS Mareograms Skewt MicroWx Sensors Solar data Chemical downwind messages Cloud free forecasting drop zone winds downwind messages forecast vertical profile and metadata schemas and historical textbased products.

• Experience with the Air Force Weather and the ability to understand how technology integrates with Air Force Weather capabilities.

• Experience with Air Force weathers enterprise vision to include how operational technological capability will drive effectiveness for military forecasters. Experience working as a member of small team using the Scrum methodology (e.g. Sprints Scrums Backlogs). Experience with meteorological and technical information and concerns to management verbally and in writing.

• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Qualifications We Prefer

• Experience with AI models and other emerging meteorological technologies.

• Experience using programming languages such as Python in an Agile environment.

• Experience with Cloud Services in a Commercial Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) or Platform as Service (PAAS) environment.

• Prefer an Active and transferable U.S. government issued Secret security clearance prior to start date.

What We Offer

• Our values drive our actions behaviors and performance with a vision for a safer more connected world. At RTX we value: Trust Respect Accountability Collaboration and Innovation.

• Relocation Eligibility

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• Please consider the following role type definitions as you apply for this role:

• Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees as they are essential to the development of our products.

• Remote: This position currently is designated as remote. Employees who are working in remote roles will work primarily offsite (from home) but may be expected to travel to the site location as successful candidate for this role will be required to reside and work from one of the 50 U.S. states (excluding U.S. territories).

• This position requires a security clearance. DCSA Consolidated Adjudication Services (DCSA CAS) an agency of the Department of Defense handles and adjudicates the security clearance process. More information about Security Clearances can be found on the US Department of State government website here: Omaha NE

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