Senior Principal Systems Engineer, Digital Radar Onsite

About the role

Raytheon’s Surface Radars and Sensors (SR&S) Center, Huntsville AL Department, is seeking a Sr. Principal Systems Engineer to support Digital Radar test activities.

Responsibilities

• Generate, run, and interpret modeling and simulation scenarios to predict radar performance, validate algorithm updates, and compare modeled results to Flight Test truth data and measured radar outputs.
• Support real-time and near-real-time field analysis during test events by providing reach-back to development teams, interpreting data products onsite, validating sensor behavior, and advising mission leadership on radar system status and performance.
• Collaborate with group leads, cross-discipline engineers, program leadership, and government stakeholders to define analysis objectives, prioritize data sets, and communicate findings.
• Produce technically rigorous analysis reports, performance assessments, test-event summaries, and presentation materials suitable for internal reviews as well as external customer briefings.
• Contribute to technical reviews such as peer reviews, gate reviews, verification events, and test-readiness reviews, ensuring analytical rigor and alignment with program objectives.
• Support engineering activities, including systems validation, algorithm performance assessment, data analysis methodology development, and test-event reconstruction for complex digital radar systems.
• Actively participate in planning for Ground Test and Flight Test events by defining data-collection requirements, identifying key performance measures, preparing analysis tools, and coordinating readiness with integration and test teams.
• Ensure that test and evaluation activities, including data capture, software/hardware configuration tracking, and validation procedures, are conducted in accordance with established engineering processes, quality standards, and government test requirements.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 10 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience with radar waveforms, beamforming, and/or signal processing.
• Experience with MATLAB, Python, and/or other programming languages.
• Experience with system integration, verification, validation and/or testing.
• Experience with technical and/or functional leadership.

What We Offer

• Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.
• Relocation assistance available.
• 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.
• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs.