Principal Modeling & Simulation Software Developer

Date Posted:

2024-11-20

Country:

United States of America

Location:

MA131: Tewksbury, MA Bldg 1 Assabet 50 Apple Hill Drive Assabet - Building 1, Tewksbury, MA, 01876 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 value diverse skills and experience, so don't hold back. Your qualifications could add tremendous value to our team. Our customers come from all different backgrounds, and so do our employees. If you're passionate about what you could accomplish here, we'd love to hear from you.

The Integrated Air and Missile Defense Systems (IAMDS) Department is looking for a Modeling and Simulation Developer with the technical expertise and engineering leadership skills to drive the design and development of world-class Land and Air Defense Systems and Simulations. The IAMDS Department supports Raytheon by providing world class Weapon Systems Engineering. Domain Expertise includes Radar Systems, Effector Systems, Battle Management, Command and Control, Network Design, Battlespace Integration and Interoperability for Domestic and International customers. In our experience, diversity of talent and thought is what drives innovation, and we are looking for motivated engineers who will be responsible for performing Systems Engineering studies and trades, supporting System Requirements definition and analysis, algorithm development, integration, test and evaluation.

Responsibilities to Anticipate:

• Communicate with cross-functional engineering teams to coordinate design plans and requirements analysis.

• Manage program technical risks by evaluating requirements and design aspects.

• Develop and maintain modeling tools incorporating Digital Signal Processing (DSP) with complex time domain elements.

• Incorporate radar system concepts including detection, discrimination, track and signal processing algorithms to model their behaviors and performance.

• Incorporate effector system concepts including guidance and fuzing to model their behaviors and performance.

• Incorporate radar, effector, and command and control system concepts for performance analysis against various threats, to determine system performance.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and 8 years of prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and 5 years of prior relevant experience.  In absence of a degree, 12 years of relevant experience is required.

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

• Advanced knowledge of complex Digital Signal Processing with the ability to develop complex time domain signal models for use in design support and requirements analysis.

• Experience with the development and coding of system models, algorithms, test vectors

• Experience debugging/working within large, unfamiliar codebases

• SW Design/Development experience with: C++, object oriented programming, Linux, Scripting, Automated Testing

• Ability to perform design trade-offs (prior to implementation) with the following considerations: Computer Memory/Memory management, Efficiency, Readability

Qualifications We Value:

• Advanced degree in EE, CE, Physics, Math, ME, Aerospace

• Knowledge of Air Defense systems (for example - Patriot System)

• Experience/Familiarity with: AFSIM (plugin development/scripting), Code Optimization, Python, Bash, Google Test framework for automated testing, Statistics for testing models

• Strong analytic, technical and problem solving skills.

• Demonstrate a desire to develop SW to best SW design practices and standards

What We Offer:

Whether you’re just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a robust total rewards package that goes above and beyond with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement and work/life benefits; career development and recognition programs. Some of the superior benefits we offer include parental (including paternal) leave, flexible work schedules, achievement awards, educational assistance and child/adult backup