Senior Principal Systems Engineer (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-09-11

Country:

United States of America

Location:

TX190: 2501 West University, McKinney 2501 West University , McKinney, TX, 75070 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:

Secret - Current

Raytheon Company, Managed By Collins Aerospace.

Have you ever wanted to help drive and grow an industry discriminating technology? If that question piques your interest, this is the position for you! Collins Aerospace has secured long-term funding that will allow us to mature specific technology to higher Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) on a path to fielding. This product is in the information/data security space.

The Secure Systems Department is seeking a Senior Principal Systems Engineer (SE) to help grow a new and exciting secure system product line. The qualified candidate will have extensive systems engineering experience throughout the Engineering V Model with a deep knowledge of secure systems. This position requires onsite presence in McKinney, TX. An active Secret security clearance is required prior to the first day.

The Senior Principal Systems Engineer (SE) will be a Systems Engineering Technical Lead of a team of 3-5 systems engineers across multiple programs and IRAD to ensure robust secure solutions are verified and validated in a fast-paced agile environment. The candidate will work collaboratively with the produce line Chief Engineer, Technical Director, Architect, Integrated Product Team Leads, and other disciple Technical Leads to ensure all efforts achieve their objectives. The candidate will drive a scaled agile systems process working with product owners and functional leaders to reduce time to market to meet our customers’ ever-changing requirements. This individual will have a proven history of pushing teams toward new and innovative processes, tools, and a quality focused culture. The SE is a technical leader whose roles and responsibilities include derivation of requirements, architecture design, test planning and execution, implementing agile processes and tools, leading bids and proposal work, and working across the engineering functions to achieve program objectives.

What You Will Do:

• Design, develop, integrate, and test highly complex secure processing solutions across all products in the portfolio.

• Plan and execute environmental test objectives

• Manage lab equipment and expansion across labs with multiple security classification levels

• Work with the Material Program Manager (MPM) to manage vendors and suppliers to ensure necessary material is procured in a timely manner to meet program objectives

• Support the training and growth of the SE team on the product line and ensure best practices are adhered to

• Collaborate with the Chief Engineer, Architect, Technical Director and Business Development on new business pursuits.

• Work within a multi-disciplinary team with team members and customers

• Work within the boundaries of government and company guidelines to ensure compliant and cutting-edge solutions for both current and future capabilities.

What You will learn:

• You will gain technical leadership experience, and mentorship opportunities.

• You will obtain invaluable experience working with our subject matter experts, our customer base, and cross-functional integrated product team.

• You can become knowledgeable in security hardened products with exposure to the variety of products in an ever-evolving field. We are growing, so can you!

Qualifications You Must Have: 

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience

• Typically requires 10 years or more of professional relevant experience

• Advanced experience with system security concepts and designs

• Advanced experience with secure system verification and validation activities adhere to security Technical Implementation Guide (TIG)

• Advanced experience working in multi-disciplinary teams with other team members and customers

• Strong communication skills, experience presenting technical data to program management and executive leadership

• Active and transferable U.S. go