Principal SW Engineer - SW Technical Lead - F18 Gen Radar Job El Segundo area,California USA,Software Development

About the Role

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.

Raytheon Space and Air division in El Segundo, CA is seeking a Principal Software Engineer [Embedded / Radar] to be part of their product development teams for the Gen4 Tactical Airborne Radar group, and take on the role of Technical Software Lead in the F18 Program area.

What you will do

Provide technical guidance to the software team and serve as the liaison between the software team, other engineering counterparts, program leadership, and the customer.
Hold the team accountable and drive progress to meet deadlines and technical milestones.
Design, develop, and test software based on software trouble reports in an agile/waterfall, collaborative environment, delivering builds for the APG-79 radar.
Support system integration of software on hardware.
Consult on Development and Production software development for our F/A-18 roadmap activities.
Demonstrate critical thinking skills, the ability to thrive in small, empowered teams, and an intense desire to directly enable our customers’ success.
Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize existing code for performance and efficiency in complex environments.
Write and maintain comprehensive documentation for software applications, including system architecture and design specifications.
Work collaboratively with multiple engineering disciplines to analyze, implement, and test system modification requests to the existing system baseline.
Work Location:

Onsite at our El Segundo, CA Campus.
Must be able to obtain "special access programs" (SAP/SAR) for continuation of employment.

Qualifications you must have

Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant software development experience.
Experience serving as a Software REA and/or Software Technical Lead for software, with experience interfacing with customers.
Experience with Dev Sec Ops Software methodologies.
Development experience coding in C, C++, ADA or related languages/tools across phases of Software Development Life Cycle.
Experience working on UNIX, Linux, Windows, VxWorks, Green Hills or other Real Time Operating Systems.
Active and transferable U.S. Government issued Secret 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

Current Top Secret Clearance.
Development experience in Ground or Airborne Sensors (Radars, EO/IR, EW, etc.).
Experience designing & implementing radar modes & algorithms, signal processing, target detection, and tracking.
Experience with Networks (software and hardware).
Experience developing near-real-time, embedded SW.
Experience with git.
Experience with embedded or low-level software development, including OS-adjacent or hardware-interfacing work.
Experience with CI/CD tools and infrastructure such as Jenkins, Subversion, or similar.
Familiarity with Agile lifecycle process including Scrum, Continuous Integration, and Test-Driven Development Methodologies.
Experience developing embedded software for sensors, algorithm development, signal or data processing preferred.
Experience with DoD & related System/SW Architectures and messaging standards (e.g. OMS, SOSA, Link-16, etc).
Experience with production-level SW development & deployment, including Continuous Integration/Continuous…