Principal Additive Manufacturing Design Engineer

Date Posted:

2025-11-10

Country:

United States of America

Location:

UT13: RC-CT - Corp 411 Silver Lane, East Hartford, CT, 06108 USA

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:

DoD Clearance: Secret

RTX Corporation is an Aerospace and Defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 185,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

The following position is to join our RTX BBN team:

The Additive Manufacturing Process and Capability Center (AMPCC) encompasses a critical mass of Additive Manufacturing (AM) process and industrialization experts, the necessary equipment, and develops the strategic collaborations needed to rapidly mature the technology and manufacturing readiness of AM.  The AMPCC focuses on the research, development and deployment of additive manufacturing tools and processes for our business units.

The Principal Additive Manufacturing Design Engineer will be challenged with solving unique and interesting problems to enable new commercial aerospace and defense products.  They will be responsible for one or more of the following activities as they relate to the AMPCC, including:

What You Will Do:

• Development, demonstration, and documentation of design methodologies and tools for additive manufacturing including conventional CAD and implicit modeling-based approaches

• Enhancement of design tools through the development of custom modules and scripts

• Execution of Design for Additive Manufacturing (DFAM) projects to support business unit evaluation and adoption of additively manufactured components and systems

• Topology optimization for generation of geometries enabled by additive manufacturing across structural, thermal, or hydrodynamic domains

• Definition of AM software tools and methodologies for interconnection of individual tools into a unified toolchain

• Establish relationships with government, industry, academic, and RTX Business Units and lead development of whitepapers, project concepts, and responsive proposals

• Provide training and knowledge transfer to RTX Business Units while disseminating best practices to increase the rate of additive adoption

• Work to streamline the qualification process for AM produced components

• Management of multiple design, development, and demonstration projects

Qualifications You Must Have:

The preferred candidate should have a strong understanding of engineering principles and hands on experience working with laboratory equipment.  Candidate must be able to work effectively in a multidisciplinary, collaborative team environment focused on innovation and have demonstrated both verbal and written communication skills including:

• Bachelors Degree in Science, Mathematics or a related discipline and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience, or an MS Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years experience.

• Expert CAD user (Siemens NX preferred) for mechanical design and product engineering with advanced user of implicit modeling tools such as nTop including development of custom blocks

• Deep understanding of the AM process using laser powder bed fusion

• Advanced scripting experience with CAD tools, Matlab, Python, VBA, JavaScript or similar

• Experience with finite element analysis (e.g. Ansys, Abaqus, COMSOL)

Qualifications We Prefer:

• PhD in Mechanical Engineering or related technical field

• Strong presentation, planning, problem solving, organizational, and project management skills with experience managing complex R&D projects

• Highly self-motivated and detail oriented and a desire to learn something new every day

What We Offer:

Whether you’re just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a robust total reward