Principal Systems Engineer - TS/SCI + Poly

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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 have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Systems Engineer to support one of our premier programs within the Air & Space Defense Systems (ASDS) business unit. Your expertise in large-scale system agile software development as well as system capability and feature development will be highly valued. In addition your experience with systems engineering analyses requirements definition and derivation and interface definition will be critical to the programs success. You will also play a key role in developing acceptance criteria for validation and verification with a particular focus on system-level interfaces.

What You Will Do

• Conduct technical analyses to define system functionality through detailed use cases customer capabilities and feature breakdowns

• Address software system integration and initialization challenges

• Provide technical direction to development teams through CONOPS and systems design artifacts

• Demonstrate strong communication skills to effectively explain complex topics to development teams

• Deliver engineering support and technical guidance during the programs development integration and test phasesincluding acceptance criteria development and architecture design

• Participate in and contribute to technical reviews and technical interchange meetings throughout the program lifecycle

• Identify integration challenges across ground system segments and translate technical issues into mission-level impacts

• Provide mission readiness assessments based on technical integration progress risks and interdependencies

• Communicate emerging risks and concerns to leadership and stakeholders offering clear pathways for awareness and resolution

• Recommend defect prioritization across system segments to support effective integration and achieve enterprise test objectives

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a Bachelors Degree in Science Technology Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience

• Experience development of large software data processing system architectures with a focus on system-level interfaces

• Experience with systems engineering lifecycles roles and functions with specific experience in some of the following areas: operations concept development requirements management functional analysis/synthesis interface definition and control and/or verification and validation

• Development experience on a government contract

• Experience with Agile and/or DevSecOps development methods

What We Offer

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

• Relocation assistance is available

Qualifications We Prefer

• Communication skills experience particularly in translating complex technical issues into mission readiness impacts

• Experience with Agile tool sets (JIRA Confluence BitBucket etc.)

• Experience working with requirements in DOORS or other requirements repositories

• Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps in an Agile development environment

• Good oral and written communication skills as well as good collaboration skills and the ability to work in a cross functional team environment

• Experience leading cross-functional teams

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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.

• This is a full-time onsite position based in Richardson TX: salary range for this role is 101000 USD - 203000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer including but not limited to the role function and associated responsibilities a candidates work experience location education/training and key skills.

  Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits including but not limited to medical dental vision life insurance short-term disability long-term disability 401(k) match flexible spending accounts flexible work schedules employee assistance program Employee Scholar Program parental leave paid time off and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.
  Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including but not limited to individual performance business unit performance and/or the companys performance.
  This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.
  RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

  RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability or veteran status or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act.

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