Principal Systems Engineer with AF Weather Experience

Date Posted:

2025-04-02

Country:

United States of America

Location:

NE131: 2120 South 72nd Street Suite 900 , Omaha, NE, 68124-2318 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.  

• We are seeking a Senior Systems/Software Engineer to join our Engineering team in Omaha, Nebraska with a Meteorological background in Air Force Weather to join the AFW (Air Force Weather) Enterprise programs and expand our distinguished team to develop a state-of-the-art network of meteorological data and applications.

•  The development of this national asset will provide global coverage, monitor environmental conditions, collect, disseminate, and process data about the Earth's weather, atmosphere, oceans, land, and near-space environment.

• The AFW Enterprise software provides a cloud migration implementation of the 2nd largest data repository in the Department of Defense.

• The teams work in a DevSecOps cadence deploying meteorological microservices to Air Force Weather and the Department of Defense.

• The AFW Enterprise programs are looking for a qualified systems/software engineer to join the AFW enterprise team as a Principal Systems/Software Engineer with a Meteorological background in Air Force Weather.

What You Will Do
 

• You will be responsible for shaping a vision of where Air Force weather enterprise needs to pivot based on changing requirements and operational needs.

• Supporting the requirements analysis, meteorological testing, meteorological verification, design, and integration of software.

• Responsible for meteorological accuracy, supporting software validation and verification, qualification, configuration control and documentation at the component level.

• Involved with most phases of the software development life cycle including SW requirements analysis, use case support, detailed design, generating test plans, and ensuring code meets requirements through unit testing, updating technical documents, software integration support, problem detection, and resolving discrepancy reports.

• Works in an Agile development team (e.g. Sprints, Scrums, Backlogs).

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a Bachelor of Science in Meteorology, IT related field preferred or (STEM) focused - Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant Meteorology Systems/Software Engineering experience or 6 years of relevant experience with a Master's degree  in Meteorology, IT or (STEM).

• Requires 3+ years’ experience in Air Force Weather operations, Experience with numerical models that support Air Force Weather: Galwem, LIS, GEPS, Advect Cloud, DCF4, ODLA, WW3, FAROP, OSAA, OSAD. This includes practical experience working with the supported data formats, netcdf, GRIB1, GRIB2, and Zarr.

• Experience with point-based/Alphanumeric products that support Air Force Weather: Observations (IWXXM and BUFFR), TAFS, Mareograms, Skew-t, MicroWx Sensors, Solar data, Chemical downwind messages, Cloud free forecasting, drop zone winds, downwind messages, forecast vertical profile, and metadata schemas, and historical text-based products.

• Experience with the Air Force Weather and the ability to understand how technology integrates with Air Force Weather capabilities.

• Experience with Air Force weather’s enterprise vision to include how operational technological capability will drive effectiveness for military forecasters. Experience working as a member of small team using the Scrum methodology (e.g. Sprints, Scrums, Backlogs). Experience with meteorological and technical information and concerns to management, verbally and in writing.

• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Qualifications We Prefer

•  Experience with AI models and other emerging meteorological technologies.

• Experience using programming languages such as Python in an Agile environment.

• Experience with Cloud Services in a Commercial