Principal Human Factors Engineer

Date Posted:

2025-09-11

Country:

United States of America

Location:

MA133: Tewksbury, Ma Bldg 3 Concord 50 Apple Hill Drive Concord - Building 3, Tewksbury, MA, 01876 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:

DoD Clearance: Secret

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.

• Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) is responsible for ensuring our products are Safe, Reliable, Usable, Maintainable and delivered on time. 

• LCE consists of multiple specialty disciplines that influence the design and architecture of Raytheon products. 

• Our LCE resources interface directly with program leadership, technical leadership, and our customers throughout the total life cycle of our products from conception to deactivation. 

• Our engineers provide subject matter expertise in the following engineering disciplines: Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Testability, System Safety, Human Factors, and Supportability.

• This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Principal Human Factors Engineer to join us onsite in a closed area program with the LCE team in Tewksbury, MA.

What You Will Do

• As a Principal Human Factors Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

• Developing and implementing one or more MIL-STD-1472 compliant Human Factors programs.

• Performing MIL-STD-1472 Human Factors Program tasks and analyses.

• Working across all integrated product teams and lines to properly eliminate hazards or provide effective controls.

• Coordinating with customer human factors representatives applying methods, standards, and techniques to provide clarification of system requirements to software, hardware, and test personnel to ensure design and architecture considerations are appropriately allocated to the system and horizontally integrated across the development teams.

• Collaborating with Program Management and government approval authorities from program startup through production to demilitarization and disposal backgrounds.

• Performing Human Factors planning, hazard analyses and design analyses.

• Briefing human factors considerations at technical reviews and as part of the engineering approval process.

• Interpreting system requirements, customer specifications and military standards.

• Preparing internal and customer reports describing various analyses relevant to the Human Factors program.

• Collaborating across multiple disciplines to gain a full understanding of product architecture and design.

• Interfacing with other engineering functions: Systems Engineering, Software or Firmware Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Hardware Engineering.

• Managing Human Factors Working Group(s) between key Raytheon and Customer representatives.

• This position is posted as ONSITE and will be based at Raytheon’s Tewksbury, MA location.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a  Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) and minimum of 8 years of relevant Human Systems Integration, Human Factors Engineering or Safety Engineering experience.  An advanced degree may account for additional years of experience as required for this position.

• Experience developing, implementing, and/or performing Human Engineering Program Plans, Human Engineering Assessments and/or Analyses.

• Experience with DoD Human Factors Programs e.g. MIL-STD-1472.

• Experience interpreting system requirements, customer specifications and military standards.

• 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 digital human modeling analysis.

• Experience with Human Factors requirements analysis, Experience with User Interface and dev