Senior Principal (Lead) AESA Product Engineer

Company: RTX
Location: Cedar Hill
Posted on: November 13, 2020

Job Description:

Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RI&S) is growing Our Advanced Concepts and Technology Mission Area has an immediate opportunity for a Senior Principal (Lead) AESA Engineer to provide technical guidance and leadership across new and enhanced products of active electronically scanned arrays . Explore RIS: Raytheon Intelligence & Space The position will reside in the System Engineering Center (SEC) - Advanced Algorithms and Analysis Group and serve as a key contributor in the development of new AESA technology. The Lead Engineer will navigate this fast-paced environment - working with customers and operational analysis engineers - to develop CONOPS which will shape product roadmaps, architectures and requirements. You will work to close the trade space of the advanced hardware, software and firmware requirements to produce overall system application performance that meets the customerâ??s needs. Our ideal candidate will have a hardware background with digital AESA antennas and a solid understanding of associated technology, applications, and overall systems to be able to influence trades across the Advanced RF (ARF) portfolio of programs. You will drive a strategy that develops distinct product lines (products operating in bands ranging from 50MHz to 50GHz are part of this portfolio) by deploying disciplined system engineering fundamentals that will link customer requirements and operational analysis through to advanced hardware requirements. The Lead Engineer will be an effective advocate for building this linkage and working with the customer as the advanced hardware is developed and tradeoffs are discovered. Related activities include working closely with customers to shape product roadmaps, architectures, requirements and resolve technical issues: Engage customers to shape anticipated RFIâ??s and RFPâ??s and lead the development of technical responses. Advocating and implementing effective requirements management on multiple programs in the ARF portfolio. Lead, manage, and mentor other engineers to successfully implement requirements management Creating manageable requirements links between operational analysis, customer requirements, hardware, software and firmware requirements. Creating basis of estimate documentation and supporting bidding activities Conduct or participate in customer reviews and program technical reviews thus providing technical governance over programs in the portfolio. Ensure the consistent application of engineering best practices and all activities undertaken under your control are conducted to common standards in accordance with Raytheon's IPDS processes Using Raytheon 6 Sigma proactively to foster a culture of continuous process improvement Required Skills: Minimum 10 years of related systems and hardware engineering experience, including experience with digital AESA antennas and components (EX: design, testing, troubleshooting or integrating AESAs); solid experience with active array antennas. Requires prior product or systems design technical leadership experience and a firm understanding of the Systems Engineering lifecycles and demonstrable application of relevant methodologies and toolsets. Experience with DOORs. Experience working with both customer and internal technical / non-technical resources. Requires excellent executive-level written and verbal communication skills. Must be a U.S. Citizen with Active (or active within past 2 years ) DoD Secret Clearance. Desired Skills: Strong background in RF systems, digital active electronically steered arrays and the components that comprise these systems. Ability to translate platform mission requirements to system/subsystem requirements Experience designing and testing AESA antennas Experience with model based system engineering principles and tools (Magic Draw, Enterprise Architect, Rhapsody, and the like) Experience in writing ICDs and IDDs Worked a design development program using Agile Framework methodology Skilled at anticipating problems and planning to mitigate them Experience with OSA (open systems architecture) Proposal writing experience Experience writing tech volumes, bidding, or generating basis of estimate documentation Experience writing white papers and responding to requests for information (RFIs) Required Education : B.S. in a related STEM discipline (Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, etc.) Desired Education: M.S. in a related STEM discipline. 171315 Raytheon is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.

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