Sr. Principal TM and FTS IPTL

Date Posted:

2025-06-16

Country:

United States of America

Location:

AZ852: RMS AP Bldg M02 1151 East Hermans Road Building M02, Tucson, AZ, 85756 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:

DoD Clearance: Secret

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.  

Job Summary:

The Flight Avionics Department within Raytheon Hardware Engineering provides Electrical Systems Engineering to develop Electronic Systems solutions for products across the Raytheon portfolio. Our core electrical engineering responsibilities include architecture, requirements, integration, and test. Our core electrical engineering technologies include RF/RADAR, Navigation/IMU/GPS, Digital, and Power. We partner with several Electrical Product Team departments that provide the detailed design of our electrical products as well as systems teams.

The Flight Avionics department has an exciting opportunity available for a Senior Principal Integrated Product Lead with experience leading large complex teams, supplier management, oversight of schedule & budget and experience with Telemetry (TM) & Flight Termination System (FTS) qualification. The TM/FTS Lead role is a key program role contributing directly to the successful execution of the product and resulting mission capabilities delivered to the customer.  The TM/FTS Lead will lead a cross-functional and cross-discipline team while providing both technical and financial oversight in meeting program commitments specific to Qualification and Certification activities related to critical FTS components required for successful flight test events.  The role requires a high level of coordination across team leaders executing analysis, qualification testing to extreme environmental profiles, and validating test results to already released specifications in addition to delivering all required artifacts to the Range Safety Officer for review and final FTS Report submittal for approval 45 days before each scheduled flight test event.  The successful candidate will have the ability to interface with the program and customer leadership to help develop a common vision to the teams as well as strong experience with earned value management.

What You Will Do:

• Lead a multi-disciplined engineering team and manage suppliers through an aggressive delivery schedule
• Responsible for Technical, Cost, and Schedule Execution.
• Collaborate with suppliers and customers for procuring and demonstrating capabilities in lab or field environments.
• Assignments may include guiding a team through several phases of hardware systems lifecycle such as designs and analysis; developing and documenting subsystem requirements and test plans; presentations to peers, management, and government customers; and root-cause failure investigations.
• Raytheon has a strong culture of mentoring; it is expected that employees will be both mentors and mentees.
• Work environment is primarily in an office, but may include labs, field work, or a combination.
• Assignments may require some travel, including foreign travel.
• Collaboration with both Functional and Program higher level management.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 10 years of prior relevant experience in one or more of the following areas:  
• Analog, digital, and power electronics design, integration, and production support
• RF product and subassembly design, integration, and production support
• Electro Optical product and subassembly design, integration, and production support
• Deconvolving high level requirements into actionable design electronics and subsystem architectures
• Experience in sub-systems, systems engineering, requirement development and/or requirement validation
• Active and transferable U.S. government issued Top Secret security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Qualifications We Value: