STORMBREAKER Systems Test Integrated Product Team Lead I(PTL)

About the role

The Systems Test IPTL (Sr. Principal, Systems Engineering) role at RTX's StormBreaker Lot Integration and Test program focuses on leading efforts for system test, flight test, and qualification. Key responsibilities include driving the transition of systems to production readiness, facilitating working groups with customer stakeholders, and enhancing technical documentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate major efforts for System Test, Flight Test and Qualification.
• Drive the transition of the systems from development to production readiness.
• Facilitate working groups with customer stakeholders, focusing on execution plans and mitigating risks while identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Execute monthly CAM (Control Account Manager) responsibilities to ensure schedule and ETC (Estimate to Complete) accuracy and provide explanations for variances.
• Prepare and present materials for program-level meetings and reviews, including Integration and Verification Working Groups, Program Management Reviews, Test readiness reviews, test review boards, Functional Configuration Audits, and others.
• Collaborate with technical and program leads to execute program tasks and address scope gaps, including securing necessary funding to meet program goals.
• Support system performance analysis, simulation, and software verification activities.
• Enhance, update, and maintain technical documentation to support development and production efforts.
• Lead and participate in failure investigations, including providing Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) and supporting Failure Review Boards (FRBs) and Failure Investigation Teams (FITs).
• Mentor early-career engineers and facilitate knowledge sharing across Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) and Cross-Product Teams (CPTs).

Requirements

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 10 years of prior relevant experience.
• Expertise in at least one of the following disciplines: System Test and/or Flight tests, Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) or Signal Processing algorithm design, development, verification, and/or validation, Systems Engineering architecture, requirements development, and/or verification.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience transitioning systems to production readiness.
• 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 We Prefer

• Familiarity with the Test Equipment development.
• Familiarity with missile defense programs.
• Experience working in a production environment and collaborating with factory teams.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to brief senior program management and customers.
• Advanced degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field.