Senior Principal Radar Systems Engineer

Date Posted:

2025-03-27

Country:

United States of America

Location:

AL200: 401 Jan Davis Drive Huntsville 401 Jan Davis Drive , Huntsville, AL, 35806 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

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 (SE) Directorate is the central focus for Mission Systems Integration activities within Raytheon, responsible for defining customer needs, functional and product architecture, requirements definition and decomposition, Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), system performance, and System Security Engineering (SSE).

The Land Warfare and Missile Defense Systems (LWMDS) department oversees all aspects of Systems Engineering that drive the development of complex systems to support various Raytheon programs around the world. The LWMDS department supports Raytheon by cultivating a world-class group of systems thinkers who work together as a team to architect technical solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. Key technical domains include Radar Systems and Sensor Netting, Effector Systems, Battle Management, Command and Control, Communications, Network Design, Battlespace Integration, and Interoperability for Domestic and International customers.

The Senior Principal Radar Systems Engineer will be part of a Huntsville, Alabama-based Modeling and Simulation (M&S) team supporting the Open System Architecture Signal Injector (OSI) product.  This role includes development and analysis of system and software requirements, development of complex mathematical algorithms, development of system architectures, and support to software and integration/test engineers.

This is an “Onsite” role in Huntsville, Alabama

What You Will Do:

• You will lead architecture and requirements development activities that define, characterize, develop and document MDS radar OSI M&S capabilities in the form of architectural framework updates, system-of-system functional and performance requirements, detailed algorithm descriptions, test scenario definition, and verification approach.
• You will conduct requirements analysis and bench marking to verify algorithm designs, ensuring system-level performance aligns with operational systems.

Qualification You Must Have:

• Typically requires a Bachelor of Science in Science, Technology, Engineering, Physics, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of ten (10) years of Systems Engineering or related technical discipline experience in the following areas; 
  • Experience with Radar Systems or other related systems engineering experience
  • Experience with radar signal processing, signal processing theory, and/or signal modeling
• Active and transferable Secret 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:

• Advanced Degree in STEM
• Minimum of 10+ years of experience in field of engineering or related technical discipline
• Experience with radar system concepts; detection, discrimination, track and signal processing algorithms and their behaviors and performance
• Experience with system level requirements development, documentation and maintenance and/or requirements development and design of system level software architecture
• Experience with the development and coding of system models, algorithms, test vectors and evaluation tools in support of analyzing radar requirements and performance
• Experience with developing, documenting and maintaining processes, methods and tools
• Experience developing technical solutions to complex issues
• Experience working with Matlab (including object oriented programming), Python, C/C++, Java or DOORS
• Experience with the software development process using Agile Methodologies and tooling, including such as JIRA and Confluence
• Documented experience showing analytic, technical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with MS Office Suite
• Experience demonstrating your communication, technical writing, oral presentation and interpersonal skills
• Previous experience interfacing with customers and leading technical solutions to complex user needs
• Experience working alone and in a geographically distributed team enviro