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Date Posted:

2025-10-21

Country:

United States of America

Location:

AZ805: RMS AP Bldg 805 1151 East Hermans Road Building 805, Tucson, AZ, 85756 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.​

Security Clearance:

Secret - Current

At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring 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. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world.

The Systems Engineering and Test Center (SETC) organization is currently hiring a Senior Principal Engineer to join our Tucson, AZ location within the Offensive Systems Engineering (OSE) Portfolio of the Integrated Kill Chain Architectures Directorate of Advanced Technology. This position is to support a portfolio of programs as the **Lead Architect** within the Office of the Chief Engineer on the portfolio.

The **Principal Systems Engineer - Lead Architect, Advanced Technologies** sits on the portfolio leadership team and is focused on areas such as mission engineering and strategic opportunity creation and analysis. The **Principal Systems Engineer - Lead Architect, Advanced Technologies** focuses across an array of levels of system engineering including: mission engineering; business pursuit architecture and analysis; digital analysis and architecture, product design architecture, and threat modeling. This role works across the RTX business to leverage company technology and resources needed by OSE supporting Directors across RTX. The ideal candidate has a strong generalist technical background including optical design, mechanical design, manufacturing processes, supplier engineering, propulsion development, system security, and system test. This dynamic background is mandatory to drive context into multiple aspects of modeling and simulation in other areas including directed energy, optical warfare, fast/affordable weapons, and left-of-launch. This role guides systems architecture design decisions, provides guidance to design teams, and coordinates architectural solutions within OSE pursuits.

What You Will Do:

+ Interact and coordinate with customer community stakeholders, including acquisition and technical groups, to influence and guide the development of program mission solutions.

+ Shape customer acquisition strategy through collaborative engagements intended to define future potential system capability.

+ Influence internal and external resource decision makers in a manner strengthening Raytheon competitively.

+ Influence system architecture, establish processes, and align program leadership, office the of chief engineer, and multiple IPTs.

+ Regular communication to leadership to provide program status, accomplishments, issues, and help needed, while influencing the Sub-IPTs to ensure program alignment and teamwork.

+ Provide mentoring and guidance to all team members.

+ Apply experience in task leadership and system level design, integration, verification, and test.

+ Drives architectural vision into proposal strategy.

+ Collaborate with system architects to define architecture and flow this out across proposal artifacts, designs, and capture pursuits.

Qualifications You Must Have

+ Typically requires a Bachelor’s in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of ten (10) years of relevant experience

+ Experience on a Missile Program

+ Experience in defense and weapons industry (e.g. - design, microelectronics, operations, supply chain, modeling and simulations, operations research)

+ Experience in system design using Digital Engineering and/or Model Based Systems Engineering

+ Experience with threat modeling with active threat intel community collaboration

+ Experience collaborating between operations analysis, high and low fidelity simulations, 6DOF, and systems modeling communities or similar

+ 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

Qualifications We Prefer

+ Active Department of Defense TS/SCI and proprietary program clearances

+ Demonstrated ability to simultaneously consider offense and defense

+ Experience leading and influencing cross-disciplined teams in a technical capacity

+ Understands and can influence IRAD roadmaps in related technical areas

+ Demonstrated ability to simultaneously consider offense and defense

+ Experience leading and influencing cross-disciplined teams in a technical capacity

+ Strong interpersonal and communication skills

+ Experience and contacts within government, industry, and RTX digital engineering communities

+ Excellent presentation and proposal skills

+ Prior relevant experience in directed energy, counter directed energy, flight vehicle design, supplier engineering, military sensing, data fusion, AI/ML

+ Ability to manage multiple and competing priorities

+ Master of Science degree in disciplines such as Physics, Optics, Electrical Engineering, or Systems Engineering

What We Offer

+ Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value: Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.

+ Relocation Eligible - relocation assistance is available for this position

Learn More & Apply Now!

+ Please consider the following role type definition as you apply for this role.Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.

+ This position requires onsite work in Tucson, AZ: https://careers.rtx.com/global/en/raytheon-tucson,-az-location

_As part of our commitment to maintaining a secure hiring process, candidates may be asked to attend select steps of the interview process in-person at one of our office locations, regardless of whether the role is designated as on-site, hybrid or remote._

The salary range for this role is 124,000 USD - 250,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels.

RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

_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._

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