Senior Principal Systems Engineer Requirements Lead (ONSITE)

About the role

The Senior Principal Systems Engineer Requirements Lead plays a crucial role in driving the development of requirements for the Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS) and related programs. This role requires strong systems engineering skills, extensive experience, and the ability to manage and evolve system requirements throughout the lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Support the JPALS and JPALS-adjacent programs
• Own the system requirements lifecycle through system-level and subsystem-level requirements development based on customer specifications and operational concepts
• Analyze stakeholder needs and translate them into technical, testable, and feasible requirements
• Apply systems thinking to ensure requirements completeness, consistency, and proper allocation across hardware, software, and interfaces
• Lead the requirements team across the entire system lifecycle, ensuring clarity, traceability, and alignment with program needs
• Collaborate with engineering, program management, test, and customer stakeholders
• Create and maintain requirements in IBM Rational DOORS, including traceability and change impact assessment
• Define and document system and subsystem interfaces, contributing to ICDs and architecture artifacts
• Lead technical discussions, design reviews, and requirement change assessments
• Support verification planning by defining verification methods and collaborating with test teams

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in the fundamentals of systems engineering
• Extensive experience in systems engineering for complex, multi-disciplinary systems (hardware, software, avionics, mission systems, etc.)
• Strong proficiency with requirements development, decomposition, allocation, and traceability across the system lifecycle
• Familiarity with generating and maintaining technical documentation such as specifications, ICDs, Test Requirements Documents (TRDs), and Verification Cross-Reference Matrices
• Proficiency with IBM Rational DOORS and requirements management best practices
• Proficient with Digital Engineering tools (DOORS, Cameo, Microsoft Office Suite, Jira, Confluence)
• Experience with risk management, trade studies, and decision analysis
• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience

What We Offer

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
• A 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 such as pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection, and more

Pay and Benefits

• The salary range for this role is 145,600 USD - 276,800 USD
• Benefits include 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

Equal Opportunity Employer

Raytheon Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class.