Senior Principal Systems Engineer

Date Posted:

2025-10-20

Country:

United States of America

Location:

CA806: 8650 Balboa Avenue San Diego 8650 Balboa Avenue San Antonio Building, San Diego, CA, 92123 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

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

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

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.

The RMD team is looking for a Senior Principal Systems Engineer to support the Missile Defense Sensors (MDS) department. The MDS department provides subject matter expertise for concept development, architectural design, requirements generation & flow-down, modeling and simulation, systems analysis, integration, test and evaluation of world-class Missile Defense & Sensor Systems to be achieved through our people, processes, technology and performance.

This position is on site in San Diego, CA.

What You Will do:

You will be working as part of a team to define radar system requirements, design architectures and algorithms in support of those requirements and collaborate with software development teams to ensure effective implementation. Some specific responsibilities:

• Analyzing radar system performance data with respect to requirements

• Identifying performance deficiencies and proposing solutions

• Defining and prototyping new algorithms to enhance system performance

• Presenting plans, designs and system performance to peers, internal leadership and external customers

• Providing subject matter expertise to agile software development teams to ensure proper implementation of requirements

You will be completing the above responsibilities in one or more capability areas including:

• Electronic Protection, signal processing, applied mathematics

• Hypersonic threat defense

• Tracking, discrimination, search, and battle manager interfaces

• Radar calibration, diagnostics, deployed site support

• Modeling and simulation of tactical software

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM preferred) and a minimum of 10 years of prior engineering experience or equivalent experience.

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

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Experience with Battle Management command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (BMC4I) systems, Radar Systems or signal processing techniques

• Experience with developing, documenting and maintaining processes, methods and tools

• Ability to develop technical solutions to complex issues

• Experience working with Matlab, C/C++, Java or DOORS

• Analytic, technical and problem-solving skills

• Experience with MS Office Suite

• Experience with system level requirements development, documentation and maintenance and/or requirements development and design of system level software architecture

• Experience with radar system concepts; detection, discrimination, track and signal processing algorithms and their behaviors and performance

• Experience with the development and coding of system models, algorithms, test vectors and analysis tools in support of analyzing radar requirements and performance

• Experience and interest in Information Assurance/Cyber Engineering requirements, determination, development and implementation

• Experience in using AI/ML and signal processing in database and algorithm design and enhancement

• Previous military service

• Ability to interface with customers and lead technical solutions to complex user needs

• Active DoD Secret Clearance or greater

What We Offer

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