Electro-Optics Systems Engineer Intern (Onsite)

About the role

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 Systems Engineering Directorate is the central focus for Mission Systems Integration activities within Raytheon, responsible for defining customer needs, functional and product architecture, requirements definition and decomposition, Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), system performance, and System Security Engineering (SSE). This is an onsite role in McKinney, TX.

Responsibilities

• Support the Advanced Products & Solutions Mission Area in the development and building of advanced electro-optical systems.
• Be part of a design team building electro-optical systems including imagers, passive/active EO tracking, LIDAR, and directed energy systems.
• Contribute to assessing systems architecture, developing requirements for these systems, and supporting the design and build efforts.
• Assess mission/system requirements and derive design and performance requirements for subsystem and unit levels.
• Understand verification and test activities to assist in the creation of a proper IV&V plan meeting program requirements.

Requirements

• Must be pursuing Bachelor’s or Advanced degree in Physics, Optical, Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and actively enrolled through the completion of the internship/co-op session.
• Experience with electro-optical infrared imagery, focal plane technology, lenses, or apertures.
• Experience with fundamental optical principles including geometrical optics, physical optics, imaging systems, aberrations, or detectors.
• Hands‑