Senior Systems Engineer, Digital Radar Onsite

Raytheon’s Surface Radars and Sensors (SR&S) Center, Huntsville AL Department, is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to support Digital Radar test activities, including radar performance analysis and Flight Test pre‑ and post‑mission activities. The role involves planning and executing radar test events, performing comprehensive radar data analyses, and developing verification strategies for advanced radar capabilities and software builds across HWIL, SIL, and field environments.

You will evaluate system functionality, assess algorithms and software performance, and troubleshoot anomalies, providing insights to multi‑disciplinary engineering teams.

• Generate, run, and interpret modeling and simulation scenarios to predict radar performance, validate algorithm updates, and compare modeled results to Flight Test truth data and measured radar outputs.
• Support real‑time and near‑real‑time field analysis during test events by providing reach‑back to development teams, interpreting data products onsite, validating sensor behavior, and advising mission leadership on radar system status and performance.
• Collaborate with group leads, cross‑discipline engineers, program leadership, and government stakeholders to define analysis objectives, prioritize data sets, and communicate findings.
• Produce technically rigorous analysis reports, performance assessments, test‑event summaries, and presentation materials for internal reviews and external customer briefings.
• Contribute to technical reviews such as peer reviews, gate reviews, verification events, and test‑readiness reviews, ensuring analytical rigor and alignment with program objectives.
• Support engineering activities, including systems validation, algorithm performance assessment, data analysis methodology development, and test‑event reconstruction for complex digital radar systems.
• Actively participate in planning for Ground Test and Flight Test events by defining data‑collection requirements, identifying key performance measures, preparing analysis tools, and coordinating readiness with integration and test teams.
• Ensure that test and evaluation activities, including data capture, software/hardware configuration tracking, and validation procedures, are conducted in accordance with established engineering processes, quality standards, and government test requirements.
• Domestic travel is expected, approximately around 15‑25%.

• A degree in a STEM field and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with radar waveforms, radar beamforming, and/or signal processing.
• Experience with MATLAB, Python, and/or other programming languages.
• Experience with system integration, verification, validation, and/or testing.

• Experience supporting radar Flight Test planning, execution, or post‑test data analysis.
• Demonstrated experience in test, integration, or verification and validation of Missile Defense System, Army, and/or Navy sensors.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary systems engineering teams.
• Experience interfacing with internal or external customers, providing technical solutions to user requirements, analyzing radar data, and generating and maintaining technical documentation and work instructions.
• Experience supporting development of verification/validation strategies for advanced radar capabilities and software builds, including building and executing simulated scenarios to predict sensor performance.

• Relocation assistance available.
• 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, and incentives depending on the business unit and collective‑bargaining agreement.

Salary range for this role is 86,800 USD – 165,200 USD. The range is a good‑faith estimate representing all experience levels and is based on factors such as role, function, and responsibilities, candidate experience, location, education, and key skills.

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.