Vision Systems - Senior Systems Engineer

What You Will Do

• Work with the Program Chief Engineer (PCE), Lead Systems Engineer (LSE), and Integrated Program Team Lead (IPTL) to ensure products meet cost, schedule, technical quality, and performance requirements
• Provide systems engineering leadership for RVS EO/IR, focal plane array (FPA) programs, including tasking such as requirements management, authoring performance specifications, defining verification plans, performing data analysis, etc.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams across Systems, Test, Software, Firmware, Mechanical, Electrical, and Integrated Circuit engineering
• Manage engineering risks and opportunities with the IPTL, LSE, and PCE to support proactive program execution
• Coordinate engineering inputs for proposals and present bid summaries to management
• Guide technical support efforts for production and development activities
• Lead and present trade studies and technical analyses to stakeholders
• Communicate technical findings and recommendations to leadership and customers
• Lead teams in resolving hardware, software, and system issues through detailed data analysis and debugging
• Oversee development and maintenance of requirements, concepts of operations, and system interfaces
• Prepare documentation for formal reviews including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, CTSR, and test data packages
• Develop product specifications and manage requirements, including derivation of lower-level subassembly and component requirements

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience or an advanced degree in a related field and minimum 3 years’ experience with airborne and space electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) surveillance and targeting sensor systems
• Factory production and direct experience with IR FPA design and testing for tactical and/or space environments
• System experience with EO/IR subsystems, IR FPA technology, semiconductor fabrication processes, photonics, optics manufacturing, or related industry experience airborne and space electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) surveillance and targeting sensor systems
• Vacuum packaging, dewar design, cryogenic cooling, and/or opto-mechanics Requirements
• Organization via DOORs
• Experience creating analytical models and scripting for data analysis (MATLAB preferred)
• Plan, lead, and execute root-cause and corrective-action (RCCA) efforts
• ROIC wafer probing, fabrication, integration, verification, and validation for a complex EO/IR system
• Earned Value Management, EVMS Certification

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. As part of our commitment to maintaining a secure hiring process, candidates may be asked to attend select 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.

Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world.

At RTX we value:
Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.

Relocation Eligible – relocation assistance available for this position.

• 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
• Holidays
• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it…