Lead Systems Engineer (P5)

Date Posted:

2026-08-10

Country:

United States of America

Location:

US-AZ-TUCSON-807 ~ 1151 E Hermans Rd ~ BLDG 807

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 Type:

DoD Clearance: Secret

Security Clearance Status:

Active and existing security clearance required after day 1

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. Raytheon brings 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. We deliver solutions that help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

The Effectors Center within the Systems Engineering and Test Capabilities (SE&TC) organization is currently hiring a Senior Principal Systems Engineer to serve as the Coyote CUAS Lead Systems Engineer (LSE) to join our Tucson, AZ location on the Coyote programs.  The Coyote CUAS programs have several contracts with both Army and Navy customers with ongoing development, production and sustainment. SE&TC is an exciting and challenging environment where you will have the opportunity to design, develop and partner with multi-disciplines to shape innovative solutions for our customers.

The LSE is responsible for technical guidance and mentorship of multi-disciplined engineering teams.  The LSE is also one of the senior technical interfaces with internal and external customers, industry partners, contractors, suppliers, and other stakeholders.  The Coyote CUAS LSE is responsible for supporting the Chief Engineer (CE) in helping define and maintain the appropriate level of technical rigor and coordination across functions and engineering disciplines across the various production and sustainment efforts within the program.  The candidate will also need prior multidiscipline engineering knowledge and experience, as well as production experience.  The LSE is expected to mentor engineers both technically and with their career.

The primary focus of this LSE position will be to drive system analysis, requirements development, design, system performance, integration, test and qualification along with providing a direct engineering interface for production. The LSE will be expected to directly interface with the customer from the United States Government (USG) and partner with contractual requirements such as achieving DD250.

What You Will Do

• Protect the system technical integrity to ensure we deliver a product that meets the customers’ and warfighters’ needs while working through challenges to accelerate

• Coordinate efforts across multiple disciplines and program efforts, to include coordination with other Raytheon products and external customer entities

• Communicate to Raytheon leadership to provide technical program status, accomplishments, issues, and help needed, while influencing the IPTs/CPTs to ensure appropriate and effective program alignment and teamwork. Provide guidance to multiple teams of multi-disciplined engineers in support of product production.

• Interact and coordinate with program stakeholders, including program customers, government organizations, industry partners, contractors, suppliers, and other stakeholders to influence and guide program production efforts.

• Rapidly assimilate and apply knowledge in varied and disparate technical fields to achieve balanced system performance.

• Accurately interpret internal and external customer requirements and objectives, effectively decomposing such into actionable direction to the program team and stakeholders.

• You will coordinate technical aspects with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across multiple programs, using common hardware and software technology to maintain program execution pace

• Help drive positive change within the production environment as a key stakeholder in Failure Review Boards, FRACAS activit