Senior Principal Systems Engineer – Collaborative Mission Autonomy
RTX
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: McKinney • California, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $124,000 - $250,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Participate in collaborative, cross-discipline integrated product teams composed of systems, software, test, and hardware engineers
- Have the opportunity to lead a cross-discipline integrated product team. Responsibilities span the full lifecycle of product development, from architecture and design, through integration, flight test, and field support.
- Support systems engineering program deliverables, including but not limited to model-based engineering models, systems architecture artifacts & description documents, and instruction manuals.
- Support and opportunity to lead requirements development & management for our autonomy products, starting from operational analysis down to systems/software requirements.
- Collaborate with customer and user community to develop and refine autonomous system.
- Support the Systems Engineering leadership team to provide an innovative solution that meets or exceeds customer expectations.
- Demonstrate completion of assigned tasks on time and on budget, and completed work products are of high quality.
- Willingness to travel to support working groups, system integration and test, customer events, and related external activities. This position will require up to 25% domestic travel.
- Demonstrate ability to work well with other team members, teammates, and disciplines.
Requirements
- Experience with requirements decomposition and integration of complex software and hardware systems to enable successful flight tests
- Experience with Integration & Test activities (e.g., Test coordinator/director, writing IV&V plans, gate reviews, etc.)
- Experience working in modern digital engineering development environments and driving integration and test events via Software-in-the-Loop (SIL), Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), and full air vehicle integration flight testing
- Experience with requirement management and related tools (e.g., IBM Rational DOORS/DOORS Next Generation)
- Domain knowledge in Autonomy systems development and Operational Analysis
- Experience with Cognitive Systems Engineering and working with pilots to design systems based on how they will be used
- Experience with all aspects required to successfully execute on flight test demonstrations of autonomous systems
- Must have previous experience leading a team, Integrated Product Team, or similar, and work well with other team members and across disciplines.
- Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of 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.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
- Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Student Loan Repayment Program
- Life insurance and disability coverage
- Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
- Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
- Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
- Adoption Assistance
- Autism Benefit
- Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
- Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
- Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
- Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
- Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
- Relocation assistance
- And more!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
requirements decompositionintegration of complex systemsflight testingSoftware-in-the-Loop (SIL)Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL)requirement managementCognitive Systems Engineeringautonomous systems developmentoperational analysistest coordination
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationteamworkcommunicationproblem-solvingtime managementcustomer focusinnovationadaptabilitycross-discipline collaboration
Certifications
U.S. government issued Secret security clearance