Principal Systems Engineer

Date Posted:

2024-08-07

Country:

United States of America

Location:

PA602: 302 Science Park Road, Bldg 5C 302 Science Park Road Building 5C, State College, PA, 16803-2214 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

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 today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world. 

The Principal Systems Engineer will execute multiple aspects of the systems engineering discipline, to include requirements decomposition into software functions, system performance analysis and trade studies, oversight of software development and system integration and test activities to ensure system requirements closure.  The system engineer will interact with the agile development teams, program leadership and customer regarding technical considerations, risks, and issue closure associated with our portfolio capabilities. This position is for State College, Pennsylvania.

What You Will Do:

• In this role you will work with the customer and engineering leadership to perform analysis necessary to define and document requirements for software releases; work with the Requirements Manager to ensure up to date requirements traceability matrices are in place; assist in the creation/management of a project schedule based on development and release activities.
• The candidate must also possess the ability to multi-task, adapt to rapidly changing circumstances, effectively network, and communicate to all levels of the organization and drive processes to successful completion in support of schedules
• The principal systems engineer will be responsible for contributing to the technical planning and capability / feature designs, and technical detailing for the agile development teams.
• The principal system engineer may also work on a cloud solution, where parts of the system will be on the Cloud environment and other portions remain on a hardware environment
• The principal system engineer is required to have strong working knowledge of networking, infrastructure, cyber security, software design and architectures

Qualifications You Must Have:  

• System engineering full life cycle experience and technical leadership experience in development of large software systems.
• Experience supporting agile development activities, including requirements specification and integration test and verification activities (full life-cycle)
• Experience with requirements derivation, capability development-analyze complex requirements and determine viable solutions
• Ability to decompose customer epics into capabilities that can then be decomposed by the development teams into actionable features and stories for development
• Systems design and specification experience, CONOPS development
• Experience on a large-scale distributed software system
• Experience defining acceptance criteria for capabilities that can be detail designed and developed by external teams
• Understanding and experience conducting design and/or modeling activities
• Understanding of how to interpret customer needs and convert them to achievable requirements or capabilities
• Ability to maintain technical cost and schedule for systems engineering and software integration
• Active and transferable U.S. government issued TS/SCI security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience, or An Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years’ experience

Qualifications We Prefer:

• SIGINT, GEOINT, or Multi-INT Intelligence Community (IC) background analyst with end user mission experience
• Experience in a technical leadership role of a large multi-disciplined engineering team
• Experience with cloud-based S/W architectures and systems
• Experience using Architecture Frameworks and modeling resources and methodologies like Cameo, Enterprise Architect, Rhapsody, etc. for definition of large systems with complex integration and interoperability challenges.
• Experience developing MBSE and/or DoDAF operational views for overview and details
• AWS cloud experience - AWS cloud technology knowledge and implementation
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience, as a System Engineer or working directly with in such roles

• Experience using modeling resources Experience using Agile tool sets (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.), and evaluation of COTS / FOSS applications

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.
• Not Relocation Eligible – Relocation assistance not available

Learn More & Apply Now:

• RTX solves some of the toughest challenges in aerospace and defense. That requires expansive thinking and bold innovation – and that, in turn, requires a culture that is diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We embrace individuality and diversity of thought to fuel opportunity for our employees, our customers, and our communities. We work toward progress, knowing that a more inclusive world is critical to our mission. Not just in this moment, but always.

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This role is also eligible for the Re-Empower Program. The Re-Empower Program helps support talented and committed professionals as they rebuild their capabilities, enhance leadership skills, and continue their professional journey. Over the course of the 14-week program, experienced professionals will gain paid, on-the-job experience, have an opportunity to participate in sessions with leadership, develop personalized plans for success and receive coaching to guide their return-to-work experience. Upon completion of the program, based on performance and contributions participants will be eligible for a career at RTX.

• Please consider the following role type definition 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 position requires a security clearance. DCSA Consolidated Adjudication Services (DCSA), 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: https://www.state.gov/m/ds/clearances/c10978.htm 

• This position is an onsite role – State College, Pennsylvania: https://careers.rtx.com/global/en/raytheon-state-college,-pa-location

• We Are RTX

This requisition is eligible for an employee referral award.  ALL eligibility requirements must be met to receive the referral award.

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The salary range for this role is 96,000 USD - 200,000 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 candidate’s 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 company’s 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/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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