Principal Systems Engineer

Date Posted:

Country:

United States of America

Location:

RI201: 127 John Clarke Road Middletwn 127 John Clarke Road Suite 3 Middletown RI 02842 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

U.S. Citizen U.S. Person or Immigration Status Requirements:

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

Security Clearance:

DoD Clearance: Secret

RTX Corporation is an Aerospace and Defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses Collins Aerospace Systems Pratt & Whitney and Raytheon. Its 185000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics electric propulsion directed energy hypersonics avionics and cybersecurity. The company formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses is headquartered in Arlington VA.

The following position is to join our BBN Technologies team:

RTX BBN Technologies a noted high-tech research & development company seeks a creative organized and people-centered candidate to fill the role of Principal HW/SW Systems Engineer in our Physical Sciences & Systems business unit.

BBN Technologies has a dynamic opportunity for an experienced professional in hardware or software systems engineering who is able to navigate technical challenges facilitate team action plans provide inputs to integrated master schedules champion process improvements and interface with customers. You will possess strong organizational skills offering the aptitude to manage and track multiple parallel technical activities. This is an onsite position but offers the ability to work one day of the week remotely.

What You Will Do:

• Be the program lead for managing system requirements
• Capture program requirements baseline in a requirements database
• Maintain through configuration management processes the requirements database
• Analyze develop and decompose Level 1 requirements to Levels 2 through 4 through collaborating with leads across engineering disciplines
• Develop and execute the requirements verification strategy
• Coordinate with the Design and Test leads to ensure validation/verification plans and procedures are robust and satisfy system sell-off requirements
• Ensure the system meets performance and non-performance requirements
• Champion process improvement initiatives
• Lead various system development and troubleshooting tasks
• Interface and collaborate with external customer scientists engineers and program management
• Work within program leadership team to ensure program success
• Communicate through oral presentations and written reports on program status issues and success
• This position may require some domestic travel (less than 10%)

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a degree in Science Technology Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience or in absence of a degree 12 years of relevant experience.
• 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

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Experience in a technical leadership role e.g. Lead Engineer Senior Systems Engineer etc.
• Experience in multidiscipline system design and testing
• Experience in requirements analysis development decomposition and maintenance
• Experience developing and maintaining requirements traceability matrices and in configuration control boards (CCBs) as well as expertise with a requirements database tool such as DOORS

What We Offer

Whether youre just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional we offer a robust total rewards package with compensation; healthcare wellness retirement and work/life benefits; career development and recognition programs. Some of the benefits we offer include parental (including paternal) leave flexible work schedules achievement awards educational assistance and child/adult backup care.

• Relocation Assistance available
• This position is Onsite at our Middletown RI office

To help you achieve your goals BBN will provide:

• A strong leadership team well-versed in government R&D.
• A collaborative and collegial environment to push state-of-the-art research.
• A technically competent pool of research scientists who are willing to mentor listen and help you refine your research vision and goals.
• Business development programmatic contracting finance and HR support.
• Access through RTX to opportunities that help transition your research and ultimately see it fielded.

As part of our commitment to maintaining a secure hiring process candidates may be asked to attendselect steps of the interview process in-person at one of our office locations regardless of whether the role is designated as on-site hybrid or remote.

The 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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