Senior Systems Engineer, Digital Radar Onsite

About the role

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

Responsibilities

• Planning and executing radar test events
• Performing comprehensive radar data analyses
• Developing and implementing verification strategies for advanced radar capabilities and software builds across HWIL, SIL, and field environments
• Evaluating system functionality, assessing algorithm and software performance, and troubleshooting root causes of anomalies
• Creating test objectives, outlining data collection needs, analyzing mission and sensor data to evaluate performance in detection, tracking, discrimination, and engagement
• Delivering insights to multi-disciplinary engineering teams
• Collaborating with group leads, cross-discipline engineers, program leadership, and government stakeholders to define analysis objectives, prioritize data sets, and communicate findings
• Producing technically rigorous analysis reports, performance assessments, test-event summaries, and presentation materials suitable for internal reviews as well as external customer briefings
• Contributing to technical reviews such as peer reviews, gate reviews, verification events, and test-readiness reviews, ensuring analytical rigor and alignment with program objectives
• Supporting engineering activities, including systems validation, algorithm performance assessment, data analysis methodology development, and test-event reconstruction for complex digital radar systems
• Participating 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
• Ensuring 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 5 years of prior relevant experience
• Experience with radar waveforms, radar beamforming, and/or signal processing
• Experience with MATLAB, Python, and/or other programming languages
• Experience with system integration, verification, validation and/or testing
• Experience supporting radar Flight Test planning, execution, or post-test data analysis
• Demonstrated experience in test, integration, or verification and validation of Missile Defense System, Army, and/or Navy sensors
• Experience working within multidisciplinary systems engineering teams
• Experience interfacing with internal or external customers, including providing technical solutions to user requirements, analyzing radar data, and generating and maintaining technical documentation and work instructions
• Experience supporting development of verification/validation strategies for advanced radar capabilities and software builds, including building and executing simulated scenarios to predict sensor performance