Senior Engineer - Energetic Devices

Position Overview

Onsite position located in Tucson, Arizona. The role is part of the Energetics and Propulsion Department of the Hardware Engineering Directorate. The selected candidate will work with a product team and functional subject matter experts to develop architectures, design concepts, requirements, and manage production efforts for a variety of one‑shot devices (initiators, gas generators, pyroswitches, explosive bolts). The position requires U.S. citizenship and an active, transferable, U.S. government‑issued security clearance.

• Apply and/or develop advanced one‑shot and/or battery technologies using scientific principles, theories, and concepts implementation into products.
• Provide technical oversight to various subcontractors.
• Manage subcontract suppliers to specify and deliver required subsystem components on schedule and on budget.
• Frequently interface with the customer to identify user needs.
• Commit to program schedule and budget.
• Provide technical oversight of power source battery development programs.
• Ensure two‑way communication management; serve as day‑to‑day liaison to the programs concerning resource technical assignments.
• Contribute to technology development roadmaps.
• Support failure analysis and corrective action through redesign of failed one‑shot device components or systems.
• Present one‑shot device design models and supporting analyses/test results to internal and customer review meetings.
• Support proposals requiring one‑shot technologies.
• Support development of Critical Item Development Specifications (CIDS).
• Oversee fact‑finding and contract negotiations.
• Test data reduction.
• Ensure technical rigor and depth of all deliverables.
• Be willing to travel to suppliers and government facilities.
• Technical management of subcontracts on government program.
• Proposal and cost preparation, requirements definition, and one‑shot device subsystem analysis, test and verification; operational test support; supplier collaboration.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and 5 years of prior relevant experience OR an advanced degree and 3 years of relevant experience.
• Five (5) years of experience in fuzing/one‑shots/battery/engineering technology and/or engineering design.
• Active and transferable U.S. government‑issued security clearance is required prior to start date.
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

• Advanced degree.
• Eight (8) or more years of directly related experience in one‑shot devices and their applications.
• Directly related experience in one‑shot subsystems design, development, and test.
• Experience in working with and managing one‑shot suppliers.
• Willingness to travel, including international, to provide supplier support.
• Supplier collaboration experience and oversight generating specifications and statements of work (SOW).
• Experience in one‑shot component designs, ability to evaluate performance data, capable of evaluating MIL‑DTL‑23659 compliance, and creation of technical data packages.
• Experience in business development and technology road mapping.
• Excellent written and verbal skills; strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple and competing priorities.
• Working knowledge or experience with missile design or development, production support and integration.
• Experience with DoD customers and/or associated contractor executives and technical leadership.
• Active Secret or Top Secret clearance (Department of Defense).

• Competitive base salary ranging from USD
  86,800 to USD
  165,200.
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• Retirement plans with company match.
• Flexible spending accounts and other wellness benefits.
• Parental (including paternal) leave and flexible work schedules.
• Recognition awards and educational assistance.
• Child/adult backup care options.

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.