Airborne Principal Systems Engineer (Onsite)
Location: Largo, FL (Onsite)
U.S. citizenship is required. Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Secret Security Clearance is required after start; an active and existing clearance is required from day one. Eligibility for Top Secret clearance with SCI caveat is also required.
About the Role
The Integrated Platforms (IP) team is hiring Principal Systems Engineers to support programs for U.S. military and international customers. This role involves developing full lifecycle solutions, collaborating with customers, defining lab activities, managing interfaces, and guiding system development and integration. You will work with minimal oversight to solve complex problems and support design reviews, testing, and system trade studies.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of full lifecycle solutions from CONOPS to Validation while collaborating with the customer
- Define lab activities including setup, configuration management, and testing
- Define Modeling, Hardware, and Software Interfaces
- Coach and review the work of lower-level professionals
- Manage the preparation and/or execution of Design Reviews as well as Integration, Dry Run, and Formal Qualification Testing
- Analyze system behaviors, supporting system trade studies, requirements analysis, and allocation to subsystems
- Work with little oversight to solve difficult and complex problems
Requirements
- Extensive experience with DevOps pipelines operating in both Linux and Windows environments
- Practical experience with Ansible/YAML
- Experience with writing and maintaining scripting
- Experience working on or with networked environments
- Ability to travel up to 10% per year
- Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years of prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience, or in absence of a degree, 12 years of relevant experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Survivable Mobile Command Center architectures and operations
- Experience working on fielded systems
- Experience with systems support to software and hardware development
- Experience with Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3)
- Experience with computer networking for ground-based, ship, submarine, or airborne platforms
- An active Top Secret clearance with SCI caveat
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
- Generous 401(k) plan with employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Student Loan Repayment Program
- Life insurance and disability coverage
- Optional coverages: pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
- Birth, adoption, and parental leave benefits
- Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
- Adoption Assistance
- Autism Benefit
- Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
- Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
- Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
- Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
- Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
- Eligible for relocation assistance
Pay
The salary range for this role is $107,500 - $204,500 USD. The range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including role, function, responsibilities, work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.