Senior Systems Engineer

Date Posted:

2024-10-10

Country:

United States of America

Location:

PA602: 302 Science Park Road, Bldg 5C 302 Science Park Road Building 5C, State College, PA, 16803-2214 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.

What You Will Do

Raytheon, an RTX business, is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join our systems engineering team. Our Engineers support technical direction and design to software agile development teams, and other Engineering personnel. They perform technical analyses and define how the system works creating use cases, system capability and feature designs, defining system interfaces and acceptance criteria. In this role, the candidate will provide engineering support for the implementation of a portion of the program’s systems engineering. To succeed in this role, you must have systems engineering  development lifecycle experience using an Agile methodology. The position is full time, on-site in State College, PA, Aurora CO, or Richardson TX.

• Collaborate with the Raytheon systems engineering teams to design and develop software
• Assist in providing technical information and clarification during the entire software development lifecyle; from conceptualization and design to development, testing, deployment, and operations.
• Perform solution decomposition from customer epics, to capabilities, to features, to stories according to SAFe Agile practices
• Apply systems engineering expertise to feature designs to reduce overall risk to the software development effort
• Engage with customer user representatives or subject matter experts to gather user needs and incorporate into the feature designs for the agile development teams
• Engage with SMEs from other disciplines to fully understand the solution and document the designs.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience unless prohibited by local laws/regulations; or an advanced degree in a related field and minimum 3 years’ experience
• An active and transferable TS/SCI 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."
• Demonstrated system engineering and technical experience with software systems development
• Experience in agile software development activities, including system level design specification and integration test and verification activities (full SE life-cycle)
• Experience interacting across multiple engineering disciplines, including both programmatic and technical
• Experience working in an Agile development team environment with multi-discipline engineers and stake holders, developing system solutions to meet customer requirements, requirements decomposition, and experience with CONOPS development
• Experience working on teams addressing solution definition, decomposition, design and acceptance criteria
• Experience performing design activities with cross-disciplined engineering teams
• Experience working in the software development Lifecyle

Qualifications We Prefer

• SIGINT, GEOINT, or Multi-INT Intelligence Community (IC) background with end user mission experience
• Experience in a technical role of a large multi-disciplined engineering team
• Experience with cloud-based S/W architectures and systems is a plus
• Experience developing MBSE and DoDAF artifacts
• Background and experience successfully working with all levels of engineering development in large government software development programs as well as an individual contributor as part of an agile development team
• Engineering experience working in the full software development lifecycle using Agile methodology that ensures high quality software is built and released to end-users quickly and within cost and schedule parameters
• Experience using Agile tool sets (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.), and evaluation of requirements decomposition, system architecture and system design
• Experience using MBSE processes and tools to capture systems design and elaboration in Cameo or similar tool
• Experience in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and/or micro-service based systems