Effector Sub-System Products Section Leader

Date Posted:

2024-09-27

Country:

United States of America

Location:

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

Position Role Type:

Onsite

At Raytheon, you have the opportunity to try new things and make a bigger difference across a broader end-to-end solution, a richer technology and product set, an expanded range of disciplines, a growing global footprint and a more diverse team of colleagues and customers.

Raytheon is seeking an engineering professional to work with a variety of programs as a contributor to detailed design, simulation, product development, and initial product testing.
 
The Effectors Subsystems Products (ESP) Department is currently searching for a Electrical/Mechanical Engineer Section Leader who has experience designing RF and Microwave products.  This role includes design and test activities that span preliminary design to integration.  Products we develop support radar and datalink applications on a variety of tactical missile programs.  Critical to this role will be designing for challenging electrical or mechanical constraints and extreme environments. Responsibilities will be split between supporting RF program(s) as an engineer (~85%) and providing functional support to the section “RF” (~15%).  This position is located in Huntsville, AL.

What You Will Do

Section Leader Responsibilities:

As a Section Leader, your responsibilities include working closely with the ESP Department Leader and other Section Leaders to align the department with company direction.  Section Leaders are trustworthy and accountable, willing and able to coach and mentor section members and hold critical conversations.

• Support hiring (resume reviews, interviews, etc.)

• Support and/or drive department initiatives and goals

• Promote collaboration across functional and program boundaries

• Balancing staffing needs and align with section member growth

• Modeling and driving Raytheon values and behaviors

• Support section member performance, career development, and growth

• Elicit and compile performance feedback to support Performance Development

• Hold required formal Mid-Year and Year-End Performance Development (PD) discussions where compiled feedback, key strengths and development needs are conveyed

Engineering Responsibilities:

• Design and development of RF Systems including some of the following: transmitters, receivers, exciters, antennas, RF Enclosures, RF Hoods, RF radomes, RF fixtures, RF channelization, RF tolerancing, Technical Data Packages

• Experience designing, building and optimizing RF circuits- such as chains of components (receiver, exciter, etc.), hoods, radomes, RF packages, or individual parts (filters, limiters, couplers, etc.). 

• Working in a lab to accomplish component characterization as well as module verification and integration

• Testing and handling sensitive RF Hardware

• Design, Test, Fixturing of circuit card assemblies (CCAs) with RF or mixed signals

• Working with interdisciplinary teams- power, digital, mechanical, etc.

• Schematic capture, RF Tolerancing and RF routing

                                                                        

Qualifications You Must Have

• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering

• A minimum of ten (10) years of experience to include at least 2 of the following:

  • Experience performing design and analysis for the packaging of RF products (e.g. Circuit Card Assemblies, antennas, radomes, RF test equipment, or harnesses and interconnects) throughout the product life cycle to include three dimensional (3D) Computer Aided Design (CAD) software

  • Creation of Technical Data Packages (TDPs) using Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) for RF products

  • Experience in monolithic ceramic process development

  • Development of high speed radome design including radome, tip, and mounting to airframe

• The ability to obtain and maintain a US security clearance prior to the start date. U.S. citizenship is required as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

   
Qualifications We Prefer

• Master of Science (MS) in Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering

• Technical oversight responsibilities for less-senior engineers

• Experience