Senior Principal Systems Engineer - Air Dominance Cross Product Team Lead; Onsite

Senior Principal Systems Engineer

Location: Tucson, AZ

Employment Type: Onsite

Security Clearance: Active Secret clearance is required prior to start date. Active Top Secret clearance may also be required.

• Interface with customers and key suppliers
• Develop, refine, and maintain system Concept of Operations (CONOPS)
• Create and refine system architecture
• Develop system requirements and lead the team in creating subsystem‑level requirements
• Perform functional and physical analyses and functional allocation
• Develop and lead requirements verification strategies and plans
• Develop integrated systems security solutions
• Plan and execute system‑level to subassembly integration, verification, and validation
• Develop and implement a Model‑Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) strategy
• Support system deployment, production, and life‑cycle logistics planning
• Collaborate and coordinate cross‑functionally in an agile environment with multiple product teams and release trains
• Establish and maintain relationships with other programs, program leadership, and the customer community
• Coordinate with program leadership on long‑term strategy and planning
• Review and support trade studies, down‑selects, and other analyses
• Manage CDRL, develop reports, and deliver documentation
• Develop materials for customer meetings (reviews, technical interface meetings, status meetings, etc.) and brief customers
• Lead the product Systems Engineering teams through architecture development, requirements development, requirements management, trade studies, and provide Systems Engineering oversight during integration and test activities
• Work on subsystems within the Air Dominance AMRAAM C9/D4 program

• Minimum of 10 years of prior engineering experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM preferred)
• Experience working on a cross‑functional team of systems engineers and multi‑discipline engineers
• Experience with systems engineering product development cycle

• Postgraduate degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Math, or Physics
• Experience presenting analytical and technical presentations
• Detailed experience in one or more of the following domains:
  • Embedded software
  • Nuclear survivability
  • RF signal processing
  • GNC (Guidance, Navigation & Control)
  • RF system integration & test
  • 6
    
    DOF/model development
• Experience with Agile, Model‑Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), and/or Digital Engineering
• RF product and subassembly design, integration, and production support
• Interfacing with customers
• Developing & refining CONOPS, system architecture, system requirements, and requirements verification strategies & plans
• Performing functional & physical analyses and allocation
• Creating & maintaining specifications
• Subassembly and system integration & verification
• Ability to perform trade studies to optimize system performance
• Active Top Secret clearance (additional clearance may be required)

Salary range: $132,400 – $251,600 USD per year.

Benefits include 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.

Relocation assistance is available.

Eligible for annual short‑term and long‑term incentive compensation programs (not guaranteed).

This role is U.S.

-based; if the candidate resides in a U.S. territory, appropriate pay structure and benefits apply.

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.