Senior Principal Systems Engineer - Secure Systems; Clearance

Position:
Systems Engineer – Mission Systems Secure Systems Department

Location:

Cedar Rapids, IA, USA

Job Type: Onsite

Required U.S. Citizenship and active Secret security clearance.

This position is for an experienced Systems Engineering professional. Join the Mission Systems Secure Systems Department to shape, define, and design communication solutions that connect militaries around the world. As a Systems Engineer, you will design and develop military products ensuring safe and protected communication. You will interface with multi‑discipline engineering teams to create total system solutions, addressing both domestic and international customer needs.

• Perform analysis, architecture, and design at all levels of the system product, including concept, design, fabrication, modeling, test, installation, operation, maintenance, and disposal.
• Perform functional analyses, trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
• Provide analyses for decomposing customer specifications and system‑level requirements into subsystem and piece‑part requirements, develop verification criteria and plans.
• Perform technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total system solutions.
• Support daily tasks in a classified and controlled lab environment.

• Technical leadership experience.
• Mentorship opportunities.
• Exposure to security and crypto certification specialists, cross‑functional integrated product teams.
• Research in security‑hardened products and evolving business areas.

• Degree in STEM or advanced degree with 3–5 years of relevant experience.
• Active, transferable Secret U.S. government‑issued security clearance required prior to start date.
• Familiarity with the Scaled Agile framework.
• Exceptional communication skills; experience presenting technical data to program management and executive leadership.
• Experience with Cryptographic Hardware architecture/design, Network Encryption specifications, and test methodologies.
• Experience with tools such as DOORS, CAMEO or similar.
• Proficiency in software languages such as Rust and Python.
• Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering.
• Experience with Hardware and Software Integration, Validation & Verification Testing, and Qualification Testing.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees.
• Generous 401(k) plan with employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option.
• Tuition reimbursement program.
• Student loan repayment program.
• Life insurance and disability coverage.
• Optional coverage for pet, home, auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance.
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits;
  Ovia Health, fertility and family planning; adoption assistance; autism benefit.
• Employee Assistance Plan with up to 10 free counseling sessions.
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program.
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits.
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services.
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program.
• Eligibility for relocation assistance.

Range: $86,800 – $165,200 USD.

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.