Principal Engineer - Warhead/Lethality

About the role

The Energetics and Propulsion Department within the Hardware Engineering Directorate at Raytheon is seeking to hire a Principal Engineer - Warhead. This role is based in Tucson, AZ and is an onsite position.

Responsibilities

• Apply or develop highly advanced technologies, scientific principles, theories, and concepts to warhead integration into missile systems
• Involvement with both development and production programs across Raytheon Product Lines
• Interface with the Customer to identify user needs
• Work with customers, subcontractors and suppliers to resolve engineering issues, develop new products and hold technical reviews
• Conduct hydrocode simulation and lethality analysis
• Support warhead design, analysis, test, and evaluation
• Develop Statements of Work (SOWs)
• Develop Critical Item Development Specifications (CIDS) and Technical Data Packages (TDP)
• Support fact-finding and contract negotiations
• Ensure technical rigor and depth of all deliverables
• Travel periodically to government and subcontractor facilities

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum of eight (8) years of prior relevant experience OR an Advanced degree and five (5) years of relevant experience
• Eight (8) years of experience in the development of warheads from conceptual design through final test / assembly
• Project Management as applied to team interaction and deliverables
• The ability to obtain and maintain a US security clearance prior to the start date. U.S. citizenship is required as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree
• Ten (10) or more years of directly related experience in warhead design, analysis and development from conceptual design through final test and assembly, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and lead collaborative efforts with other technical disciplines including structural, thermal, and aerodynamics
• Technical writing skills in the area of detailed design requirements, test requirements, statements of work, white paper and technical presentations
• Supplier collaboration experience and oversight generating specifications and statements of work (SOW)
• Experience with DoD customers and/or associated contractor executives and technical leadership

Pay

The salary range for this role is 107,500 USD - 204,500 USD.

Schedule

This role is classified as: Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite.

Benefits

• Compensation
• Healthcare, wellness, retirement and work/life benefits
• Career development and recognition programs