Principal Systems Engineer - Electronic Warfare

Date Posted: 2026-07-01 | Location: McKinney, TX (WING C BLDG) | Role Type: Onsite

About the Role

Raytheon’s Advanced Airborne Radio Frequency department has an immediate opening for a Principal Systems Engineer who is committed and passionate about creating innovative and cost-effective Electronic Warfare solutions to support the Electronic Warfare business area relating to Electronic Support (ES) and Electronic Attack (EA) capability development.

Responsibilities

• Support firmware development and integration for Electronic Systems (ES) and Electronic Assemblies (EA) performance
• Lead government Electronic Warfare performance testing
• Serve as the primary point of contact for all firmware development and debugging activities for Electronic Assemblies (EA)
• Determine what the requirements should be for a product or system based on information from the customer and provide traceability for these requirements
• Capture requirements in specific documents such as specifications and interface control documents

Requirements

• Active and transferable U.S. government issued 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

You Must Have

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM preferred)
• Minimum of 8 years of Electronic Warfare, Radar systems design, and Requirements engineering experience

We Prefer

• Active DoD Top Secret clearance with investigation within five years
• Model Based Systems Engineering (Cameo Enterprise Architecture (SysML specifically), digital thread concepts, digital engineering, MBSE with DevSecOps)
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams to gather necessary information and data for reports and presentations
• Modeling and Simulation, agile DevSecOps delivery pipelines, software development principals, Digital Thread concepts and realization in the development lifecycle
• Experience with Matlab/Simulink, DOORS, DNG, Cameo, Jira, and Confluence
• Earned Value Management / Cost Account Management experience

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability
• 401(k) match
• Flexible spending accounts
• Flexible work schedules
• Employee assistance program
• Employee Scholar Program
• Parental leave
• Paid time off and holidays
• Relocation assistance
• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs (payments dependent on individual, business unit, and company performance)

Pay

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