Senior Reliability Engineer

Date Posted:

2025-08-28

Country:

United States of America

Location:

AZ861: RMS Rita Road Bldg 9030 9000 South Rita Road Building 9030, Tucson, AZ, 85747 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

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 Systems Engineering and Test Center's Life Cycle Engineering Directorate is responsible for ensuring our products are Safe, Reliable, Maintainable, and delivered on time. Life Cycle Engineering consists of multiple disciplines that support engineering, our program offices and our customers. Our Life Cycle Engineering disciplines participate in the total life cycle of our products from conception to deactivation.  Our focus area is product support, including the following disciplines:  Reliability System Safety and Supportability. 

 
What You Will Do: 

 
As a Senior Reliability Engineer within Life Cycle Engineering at Raytheon’s Tucson, AZ facility, you will play a key role in ensuring product sustainment and mission readiness.

• Manage the Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) and ensure compliance to our problem elimination process through structured root cause analysis and corrective actions to ensure improvements are implemented.
• Conduct Failure Review Boards (FRB)s and collaborate with responsible engineering authorities to ensure data brought to FRB is clear and well defined.
• Conduct Failure Rate Predictions, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), and Reliability Block Diagrams of systems to identify failure causes, consequences, likelihood, detection, and prevention.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to troubleshoot technical issues, resolve sustainment challenges, and inform product design decisions.
• Assist in defining reliability and maintainability tests of military systems and equipment
• Adhere to strict customer driven reliability standards and guidelines.
• Interact with both internal and external stakeholders at all levels of leadership. Compile and present status at the program level.
   

Qualifications You Must Have: 

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience
• Experience performing reliability and/or failure prediction analyses.
• Active and transferrable final U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date. US citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Qualifications We Prefer: 

• Experience with component service life analysis.
• Demonstrated experience with leadership teams; solving problems and communicating with stakeholders.
• Ability to work in the office and laboratory setting.
• Experience leading Failure Review Board (FRB) meetings.
• Experience presenting to internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience with performing detailed analyses of complex mechanical and electrical Designs.
• Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) by the American Society for Quality (ASQ)
• Solid working knowledge with Microsoft Office tools.
• Experience working with reliability software tools such and Windchill Risk and Reliability, ReliaSoft, etc.
   

What We Offer

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

Please consider the following role type definition as you apply for this role.

• Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.
   

• This position requires security clearance. DCSA Consolidated Adjudication Services (DCSA CAS), an agency of the Department of Defense, handles and adjudicates the security clearance process. More