Principal Systems Engineer - TS/SCI + Poly

Date Posted:

2025-07-01

Country:

United States of America

Location:

TX232: Richardson 1727 CityLine 1727 East CityLine Drive Building C27, Richardson, TX, 75082 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

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​

Security Clearance:

TS/SCI with Polygraph

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.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Systems Engineer to support one of our premier programs within the Air & Space Defense Systems (ASDS) business unit. Your expertise in large-scale system agile software development, as well as system capability and feature development, will be highly valued. In addition, your experience with systems engineering analyses, requirements definition and derivation, and interface definition will be critical to the program's success. You will also play a key role in developing acceptance criteria for validation and verification, with a particular focus on system-level interfaces.

What You Will Do

• Conduct technical analyses to define system functionality through detailed use cases, customer capabilities, and feature breakdowns

• Address software system integration and initialization challenges

• Provide technical direction to development teams through CONOPS and systems design artifacts

• Demonstrate strong communication skills to effectively explain complex topics to development teams

• Deliver engineering support and technical guidance during the program’s development, integration, and test phases—including acceptance criteria development and architecture design

• Participate in and contribute to technical reviews and technical interchange meetings throughout the program lifecycle

• Identify integration challenges across ground system segments and translate technical issues into mission-level impacts

• Provide mission readiness assessments based on technical integration progress, risks, and interdependencies

• Communicate emerging risks and concerns to leadership and stakeholders, offering clear pathways for awareness and resolution

• Recommend defect prioritization across system segments to support effective integration and achieve enterprise test objectives

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a Bachelor's Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience

• Experience development of large software data processing system architectures, with a focus on system-level interfaces

• Experience with systems engineering lifecycles, roles and functions, with specific experience in some of the following areas: operations concept development, requirements management, functional analysis/synthesis, interface definition and control, and/or verification and validation

• Development experience on a government contract

• Experience with Agile and/or DevSecOps development methods

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 assistance is available

Qualifications We Prefer

• Communication skills experience, particularly in translating complex technical issues into mission readiness impacts

• Experience with Agile tool sets (JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket, etc.)

• Experience working with requirements in DOORS or other requirements repositories

• Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps in an Agile development environment

• Good oral and written communication skills as well as good collaboration skills and the ability to work in a cross functional team environment

• Experience leading cross-functional teams

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