Senior Principal Electrical Engineer - Digital Focus

Position Details

Title: Electrical Subsystems Digital Senior Principal Engineer

Location: Tucson, Arizona, United States

Employment Type: Onsite, 100% onsite

Security Clearance: Existing DoD Secret clearance required; U.S. citizenship required.

Date Posted: 2026‑04‑08

Provide electrical systems engineering for Advanced Effector Guidance Systems (AEGS) within Raytheon Hardware Engineering. Focus on architecture, requirements, integration, and test of RF/Radar, navigation, data link, digital, and power technologies across the Raytheon portfolio.

• Lead digital design efforts for development guidance systems.
• Accountable for program execution, including cost, schedule, and technical oversight throughout the early development lifecycle.
• Support component‑level design and test reviews.
• Collaborate with functional and program higher‑level management, customers, and suppliers.
• Mentor peers and participate in peer‑review processes.
• Guide a team through several phases of the hardware systems lifecycle—design, analysis, architecture, subsystem requirements, test plans, peer reviews, presentations to management and government customers, and root‑cause failure investigations.
• May include Control Account Management (CAM) responsibilities;
  Earned Value (EV) certification preferred.
• Travel up to 25% of the time.

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM and a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.
• Experience in analog, digital, and power electronics design, integration, and production support.
• Ability to decompose high‑level requirements into actionable design and subsystem architecture.
• Expertise in digital subsystem architecture, requirements development, validation, CCA (Circuit Card Assembly) design, digital test integration, and/or digital supplier management for an effector‑based product.
• Strong electrical engineering skills, including troubleshooting digital/analog hardware and testing complex circuit card assemblies.
• Proficiency with digital design tools for CCA schematic capture, interconnect capture, and harness design.
• Prior technical leadership experience on a complex subsystem during Engineering, Manufacturing, and Development (EMD) phases.
• Advanced degree or systems‑engineering thought process with analytical skills preferred.
• Background in designing and troubleshooting antennas, analog RF cards, digital circuit cards, and configurable logic.
• Experience leading large, complex trade studies and integrating conceptual designs into a system of systems.
• Experience working with missiles or similar systems.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities; strong interpersonal skills.

• Salary range: USD 132,400 – 251,600.
• Eligible for relocation assistance.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short‑term and long‑term disability coverage.
• 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules.
• Employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays.
• Eligibility for short‑term and long‑term incentive compensation programs based on level and performance.

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, veteran status, or any other 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.