Senior Systems Engineer

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market‑leading businesses, world‑class operations, and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world.

Raytheon brings the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. We deliver solutions that help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

The Systems Engineering and Test Capabilities (SE&TC) Surface Radars & Sensors Center is currently looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to support the Missile Defense Sensors (MDS) department. The MDS department provides subject matter expertise for concept development, architectural design, requirements generation & flow-down, modeling and simulation, systems analysis, integration, test and evaluation of world-class Missile Defense & Sensor Systems to be achieved through our people, processes, technology and performance.

This position is on site in Woburn, MA.

• Analyzing radar system performance data with respect to requirements.
• Identifying performance deficiencies and proposing solutions.
• Defining and prototyping new algorithms to enhance system performance.
• Presenting plans, designs and system performance to peers, internal leadership and external customers.
• Providing subject matter expertise to agile software development teams to ensure proper implementation.

• Electronic Protection, signal processing, and applied mathematics.
• Hypersonic threat defense.
• Tracking, discrimination, search, and battle manager interfaces.
• Radar calibration, diagnostics, and deployed site support.
• Modeling and simulation of tactical software.

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience with Matlab, C/C++, Java, or DOORS.
• Experience with systems analysis, algorithms, requirements development, and/or signal processing techniques.

• Experience with Battle Management command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (BMC4I) systems, Radar Systems or signal processing techniques.
• Experience with developing, documenting and maintaining processes, methods and tools.
• Ability to develop technical solutions to complex issues.
• Analytic, technical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with MS Office Suite.
• Experience with system level requirements development, documentation and maintenance and/or requirements development and design of system level software architecture.
• Experience with radar system concepts; detection, discrimination, track and signal processing algorithms and their behaviors and performance.
• Experience with the development and coding of system models, algorithms, test vectors and analysis tools in support of analyzing radar requirements and performance.
• Experience and interest in Information Assurance/Cyber Engineering requirements, determination, development and implementation.
• Experience in using AI/ML and signal processing in database and algorithm design and enhancement
• Previous military service.
• Ability to interface with customers and lead technical solutions to complex user needs.

• Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we…