Materials Engineering Senior Technical Fellow; Remote

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference by solving the world’s most complex problems.

With three market-leading businesses, world-class operations, and significant investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunities no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world.

Collins Aerospace is a leader in technologically advanced, intelligent solutions that help redefine the aerospace and defense industry. With a comprehensive portfolio and deep technical expertise, we help customers meet the demands of the global market.

Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

• Partner with senior leadership, key stakeholders, and subject matter experts to identify and communicate strategic customer and business initiatives.
• Identify improvement opportunities and projects and help drive the business operations agenda.
• Lead development of new approaches to qualification, design, and automated manufacturing to reduce cost, improve performance, and increase manufacturability.
• Build and maintain relationships across departments and business units.
• Drive the transition of early-stage research into production environments, ensuring alignment with business strategy, engineering needs, and regulatory requirements.
• Present to internal and external audiences; lead proposal and white paper activities; and represent Collins Aerospace at technical conferences and working groups.
• Promote key development projects and ensure alignment with customer and program objectives.
• Engage across RTX Business Units and serve as a recognized technical expert with regulatory bodies, customers, and universities.
• Provide technical leadership to facilitate high-quality decisions, product competitiveness, and robust solutions.
• Share expertise across the enterprise and support TRL/MRL reviews, PDRs, and CDRs.
• Lead strategic plans to advance product technology and organizational capability.
• Identify external technology disruptors and evaluate their potential strategic applications.
• Maintain an active presence in external technical communities and government standards committees while helping shape the future of the business and emerging technologies.
• Ability to travel up to 25% to customers, Collins Aerospace and RTX sites, technical conferences, engineering laboratories, and other business locations.

• Experience creating and maintaining organizational or directorate-level strategic technology roadmaps, customer trend analyses, and assessments of disruptive technologies.
• Expert-level knowledge and mastery across multiple Materials Engineering disciplines, typically acquired through advanced academic qualifications and significant industry experience.
• Expertise in materials design, qualification, alloy development, coatings, automated synthesis, additive manufacturing, and/or related advanced materials technologies.
• Experience establishing or modifying customer requirements, processes, and procedures to drive positive business results.
• Experience advancing new materials capabilities, manufacturing processes, and/or system-level design methodologies.
• Exceptional executive-level communication and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively across business units and serve as a technical point of contact for critical Engineering activities.
• Demonstrated technical leadership through patents, publications, technical presentations, and engagement with industry and government stakeholders.
• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 14 years of prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree and a minimum of 12 years of relevant experience, unless prohibited by local laws/regulations.
• Active and transferable DoD Secret Clearance is required prior to start date.
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

• Experience with cost accounting structures and financial systems.
• Experience working with DARPA, Department of…