Senior Principal RF Antenna Design Engineer - Onsite Huntsville, AL

Date Posted:

2025-05-07

Country:

United States of America

Location:

AL218: 315 Bob Heath Drive,Huntsville 315 Bob Heath Drive , Huntsville, AL, 35806 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. 

Effector RF Products is responsible for designing RF and Microwave hardware, including antennas and radomes. This includes design and test activities that span concept generation and preliminary design to integration. Products we develop support radar and datalink applications on a variety of tactical missile programs. Critical to this role is designing for challenging mechanical constraints and extreme environments.

The candidate will be responsible for leading and shaping antenna, radome, and antenna measurement system technology within the Company. The selected candidate will also be expected to lead teams, provide technical oversight, delegate tasks, and work with the Engineering organization to establish technology roadmaps, enable modernization, and contribute to general innovation. In addition, the candidate will work with government personnel and programs and define and refine requirements to validate hardware compliance. The candidate will be responsible for providing guidance, coaching, mentoring, and training to other employees across the business within the candidate’s areas of expertise.

This position is an onsite role, located in Huntsville, AL.

What You Will Do

• Develop and detail design antenna or radome hardware and requirements

• Work with interdisciplinary engineering teams including thermal, structural, mechanical, systems, etc.

• Work with antenna manufacturing suppliers

• Analyze simulation and test data to verify performance to requirements

                                                                       

Qualifications You Must Have

• Requires a Bachelor’s in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 10 years of prior relevant experience to include at least two of the following:

• Leading antenna designs through concept trades, design, and qualification

• Antenna simulation and modeling with at least one of the following tools: HFSS, CST, FEKO, SENTRi and/or GRASP

• Antenna measurements in near or far field systems

T​he ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Qualifications We Prefer

• Master of Science (MS) or PhD in electrical engineering

• Experience managing and presenting technical data to stakeholders and customers in design reviews and technical interchange meetings

• Experience presenting to FRB, ERB, CCB, MRB, etc.

• Experience with being a Cost Account Manager or Integrate Product Team Lead

• Mentorship experience, technical oversight responsibilities for less-senior engineers

• Technical background in the following areas:

  • Experience designing and delivering conformal antenna designs

  • Understanding and ability to design near-field-to-far-field processing algorithms

  • Understanding of complex threat environments and battlefields

  • Experience designing datalink, flight termination, and telemetry antenna systems

  • Experience designing GPS antenna systems

  • Proficiency with Python, MATAB and/or other high level scientific programming languages

  • Proficiency with high performance computing (HPC) environments and schedulers

​What We Offer

Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value: Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.

This position is eligible for relocatio