Missile Lead Systems Engineer

LSE-Lead Systems Engineer

Location:

Tucson, AZ, United States.

Role Type:
Onsite. U.S. Citizens only. Requires a Secret security clearance with an existing active clearance.

Compensation: $132,400 - $251,600 per year. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, 401(k), flexible spending accounts, paid time off, holidays, and more.

Relocation assistance available.

• Protect the system technical integrity to ensure delivery of a product that meets the customers’ and warfighters’ needs while accelerating progress through challenges.
• Coordinate efforts across multiple disciplines and program efforts, including coordination with external customer entities.
• Communicate to Raytheon leadership to provide technical program status, accomplishments, issues, and needed help, influencing IPTs/CPTs to align teamwork.
• Provide guidance to multiple teams of multi-disciplined engineers in support of product production.
• Interact and coordinate with program stakeholders—customers, government organizations, industry partners, contractors, suppliers—to influence production efforts.
• Drive hardware obsolescence verifications, manufacturing qualifications, test optimization, and yield improvement efforts, including impacts to requirements development and architecture.
• Rapidly assimilate and apply knowledge in varied and disparate technical fields to achieve balanced system performance.
• Accurately interpret internal and external customer requirements and objectives, decomposing them into actionable direction for the program team and stakeholders.
• Coordinate technical aspects with subject matter experts (SMEs) across multiple programs, using common hardware and software technology to maintain program execution pace.
• Identify and mitigate immediate and strategic risks by making decisions that balance required and desired technical capabilities against the Missile Performance Specification (MPS) and Weapon Specification requirements.
• Support incremental break-in of upgrades and system improvements.
• Help drive positive change within the production environment as a key stakeholder in Failure Review Boards, FRACAS activities, and other continuous‑improvement efforts.
• Serve as the core team lead of the ERB/CCB activities.

Must Have

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 10 years of prior engineering experience.
• Experience leading full systems engineering lifecycle.
• Experience leading cross‑functional teams.

Prefer

• Advanced degree in Engineering, Science, Mathematics, or related discipline.
• Experience producing and testing guidance electronics systems or electronics subsystem products in the defense industry.
• Raytheon Level 4 (or higher) Certified Lead Systems Engineer, or intent to pursue the Level 4 certification.
• 10+ years of relevant work experience, including prior technical leadership across development and production lifecycle.
• Experience with RF electronics system performance.
• Experience with land and air defense missile system architectures and products.
• Excellent communication, technical writing, oral presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience across product lifecycle: concept, architecture, design, integration, verification, production.
• Experience with test/support equipment.
• Ability to develop effective internal and external customer/stakeholder relationships to ensure satisfaction.
• Experience with Engineering Risk and Opportunity (E&R&O) and FRACAS management.

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• Paid time off and holidays.
• Employee assistance program.
• Parental leave.
• Other benefits depend on business unit and collective bargaining agreement.

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. 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.