Senior Principal Systems Engineer

About the Role

Senior Principal System Engineer – Safety Lead (Onsite, Huntsville, AL)

• Create and update the strategy for the program to meet all milestones with system safety features integrated into the product in compliance with contract and funding.
• Create a schedule and integrate safety tasks and activities into the program Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).
• Plan and manage the safety program effort within the Program IMS.
• Coordinate safety budget and tasking with the responsible CAM / IPTL / product owner, including EACs.
• Mentor junior safety engineers.
• Remove barriers impacting team members.
• Actively engage in engineering review boards and configuration control boards to stay on top of design changes and assess impacts to the established safety program.
• Establish an ongoing feedback loop with functional and program management.
• Lead and coordinate System Safety Working Groups between key Raytheon and customer representatives.
• Escalate risks to the appropriate level and follow through on corrective actions.
• Interpret system requirements, customer specifications and military standards to recommend compliance strategies to program leadership.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across engineering functions to identify and mitigate risks (Systems, Software, Firmware, Electrical, Hardware, Environmental Safety & Health, Human Systems Interfaces, Test Engineering).
• Manage safety related interactions with suppliers and/or subcontractors.
• Innovate better safety solutions.
• Identify best practices to improve overall safety culture at Raytheon.
• Understand and shape system safety/Human System Interfaces postures across the lifecycle (design, integration/ test, flight test, production, field, returns).

• Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 10 years of prior relevant experience.
• Subject‑Matter Expert experience in developing and implementing MIL‑STD‑882E System Safety Program tasks and analyses (management, analysis, evaluation, and verification, including hardware and software safety related tasks).
• Presentation skills to brief safety status to safety approval authorities at technical reviews, safety review boards, and other approval processes.
• Experience managing a safety program with multiple direct reports.
• Experience collaborating with stakeholders across engineering functions to identify and mitigate risks.
• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Secret U.S. government issued security clearance is required.

• Experience leading DoD System Safety Programs through the entire life cycle.
• Experience with Software Safety Engineering, Electrical or Firmware Engineering.
• Active and transferable Secret U.S. government issued security clearance.
• Experience briefing at the military safety review board.
• Experience with Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) and Proposal Development.
• Master’s Degree in STEM.

• Salary range: 132,400 USD – 251,600 USD.
• Comprehensive benefits: 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.
• Eligibility for annual short‑term and/or long‑term incentive compensation programs depending on level and collective‑bargaining coverage.
• Relocation eligible.

Security clearance:
This role requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. government issued security clearance. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for the required security clearance.

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.