Principal Systems Engineer

RTX

Principal Systems Engineer developing innovative Electronic Warfare solutions at Raytheon. Focused on firmware development and government performance testing in EW systems.

Posted 6/9/2026full-timeGoleta • California, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $118,300 - $224,900 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support firmware development and integration for Electronic Systems (ES) and Electronic Assemblies (EA) performance
Lead government EW performance testing
Serve as the primary point of contact for all firmware development and debugging activities for Electronic Assemblies (EA)
Determine what the requirements should be for a product or system based on information from the customer and provide traceability for these requirements
Capture requirements in specific documents such as specifications and interface control documents.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Typically requires a Bachelor’s in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM preferred)
Minimum of 8 years of EW/Radar systems design and requirements engineering experience
Active and transferable U.S. government issued Secret security clearance is required prior to start date.
U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
Active DoD Top Secret clearance with investigation within five years
Model Based Systems Engineering (Cameo Enterprise Architecture (SysML specifically), digital thread concepts, digital engineering, MBSE with DevSecOps).
Collaboration with cross-functional teams to gather necessary information and data for reports and presentations
Modeling and Simulation, agile DevSecOps delivery pipelines, software development principles, Digital Thread concepts and realization in the development lifecycle.
Matlab/Simulink, DOORS, DNG, Cameo, Jira, and Confluence.
Earned Value Management / Cost Account Management experience

Benefits

Comp & perks

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
holidays

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Hard Skills & Tools

firmware developmentEW/Radar systems designrequirements engineeringModel Based Systems Engineeringdigital engineeringagile DevSecOpsModeling and Simulationsoftware development principlesEarned Value ManagementCost Account Management

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationleadershiporganizational skillsproblem-solving

Certifications

Bachelor’s in Science, Technology, Engineering, or MathematicsU.S. government issued Secret security clearanceDoD Top Secret clearance