Senior Mechanical Engineer - RF and Airborne Sensors

What You Will Do

• Provide technical oversight and guidance to small work groups.
• Lead the development of common and mature RF product packaging solutions.
• Serve as a technical resource and subject‑matter expert across the organization.

You Must Have:

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience to include any combination of the following:
• Experience performing design and analysis for the packaging of RF products (e.g., Circuit Card Assemblies, antennas, radomes, RF test equipment, harnesses and interconnects) throughout the product life cycle to include three dimensional (3D) Computer Aided Design (CAD) software.
• Experience with creation of Technical Data Packages (TDPs) using Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) for products.
• Ability to obtain a U.S. government‑issued security clearance is required after the start date.

We Prefer:

• Master of Science (MS) in mechanical engineering or electrical engineering.
• Experience serving as a Responsible Engineering Authority (REA), Control Account Manager (CAM), and/or Integrated Product Team Lead (IPTL).
• Supplier management for built‑to‑print or build‑to‑specification RF products.
• Experience creating and presenting professional‑level design documentation to company leadership and program customers.
• Proficiency with Creo Simulate or ANSYS Workbench for preliminary structural and thermal analysis of design concepts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Failure investigation, root‑cause identification, and corrective‑action implementation.
• Familiarity or direct experience with RF Printed Circuit Board (PCB) material stack‑ups and Circuit Card Assembly (CCA) layout.
• One‑dimensional tolerance analysis for complex mechanical assemblies.
• Development of technical proposals, engineering project estimates, and/or white papers.
• Requirements verification, test planning and execution.

Security clearance:
DoD Secret clearance required; U.S. citizenship required for eligibility.

This position requires a security clearance and is onsite.

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.