Missile Lead Systems Engineer

Date Posted:

2026-06-23

Country:

United States of America

Location:

US-AZ-TUCSON-M09 ~ 3350 E Hemisphere Loop ~ BLDG M09

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 Type:

Secret - Current

Security Clearance Status:

Active and existing security clearance required on 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 LSE-Lead Systems Engineer 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 Stinger Missile 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 make a dated baseline robust and to modern standards.  The Missile LSE will need to utilize the team to update specifications, prints and verification plans.  They will build and drive the execution plans to close gaps in the technical baseline to ensure program longevity.  The plans will include any analyses needed, performance assessments, demonstrations, tests and documentation changes.   The role will also involve leading small cross-functional technical teams and to collaborate with CEs, Program Managers, and engineering leadership for any current and upcoming technical projects on multiple All Up Round (AUR) configurations.

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 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.

• Drive hardware obsolescence verifications, manufacturing qualifications, test optimization and yield improvement efforts including impacts to requirements development and architecture

• 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

• Identify and mitigate both immediate and strategic risks by making decisions that balance required and desired technical capabilities against the Missile Performance Specification (MPS) and Weapon Specification r