Integration, Validation & Flight Test Engineer

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At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling – to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world.

SI&T integrates, verifies, and validates our products. We put our systems together, exercise them in the field, measure and analyze performance, and make sure our products work the first time and every time. To accomplish this, we develop plans and procedures, develop flight test requirements, and work together with our customers.

In this role, you will be supporting the successful completion of flight test events, platform integration laboratory testing events, and the associated analysis of test data.  The position is in Tucson Arizona.

What you will do

• Perform integration, verification, and testing to ensure the system under test performs according to design, specs and/or requirements
• Perform data collection activities, including review and assessment of data elements, and provide detailed reports of results
• Trace and/or correct faults in mechanical or electronic systems. Familiarity with failure reporting, analysis, corrective action and/or fault tree analysis
• Create/modify documentation in support of reviews associated with formal testing, which include Test Readiness Review (TRR), Consent to Ship (CTS), and Test Data Review (TDR) packages
• Support field testing (Platform integration events to Richter Lab & AWL)
• Champion teammates. Foster respect, communication. Serve as mentor to newest team members
• Able to work in a high-paced environment
• Generate CR, CN, or VARs, complete data package and take to board (ERB/CCB)
• Monitor / manage upcoming tasks; assign resources (working knowledge on MS Project)
• Collaborate actively with CAM, IPT, TA, CE, attend weekly meetings to provide status, needs

Qualifications You Must Have

Typically requires Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of eight (8) years of relevant systems integration and test experience.

Relevant experience includes four (4) or more of the following areas:

• Hardware Systems Integration experience, with preference for integration on military platforms
• Platform Integration and/or Flight Test experience
• Experience supporting field tests, or systems deployed in the field
• Experience evaluating requirements
• Experience with the use of lab/field test equipment
• Experience collecting and evaluating data to diagnose and solve technical issues
• Experience with Verification and Validation methods
• Experience creating integration and verification strategies

The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Qualifications We Value:

• Strongly prefer existing DoD clearance
• Telemetry Analysis experience
• Experience performing maintenance and repair of weapons platforms, including troubleshooting, fault isolation, and resolution activities
• Experience in managing cost and schedule using Earned Value Management systems
• Technician experience maintaining, servicing, and inspecting military platforms, such as Fixed Wing, Rotary Wing, Ground Based, and ship-based platforms.
• Technician experience maintaining, handling, testing, and assembling of guided and unguided munitions

• Technician experience working on military platforms, such as Fixed Wing, Rotary Wing, Ground Based, and ship-based platforms
• Experience in integration with test equipment, telemetry data analysis tools, and missile systems host platforms.
• Experience managing and presenting technical data to Stakeholders and Customer community, in design reviews and technical interchange meetings.
• Technical leadership with capture/pursuit experience, including contribution or authoring of white papers, RFI responses, proposal of technical volumes, or related experience
• Experience with RF spectral and temporal effects for sensor and backgrounds, including clutter, multipath, self-interference, grounding and shielding, and mitigation factors.
• Experience in integrating RF/EO sensor output, either modulated waveforms or streams of digital samples used for real-time representation of RF/EO scenes data collection / analysis (including Telemetry)
• Test Systems design experience and collaborating across multiple engineering disciplines, such as electrical, electronics, mechanical, software, and computer engineering.
• Experience in RF/EO integration of hardware systems with high level of understanding of digital signal processing algorithms, advanced waveforms, antenna patterns, and techniques used in resource-constrained missile systems.
• CAMEO experience.

What We Offer

• Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value: Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.

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• RTX solves some of the toughest challenges in aerospace and defense. That requires expansive thinking and bold innovation – and that, in turn, requires a culture that is diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We embrace individuality and diversity of thought to fuel opportunity for our employees, our customers, and our communities. We work toward progress, knowing that a more inclusive world is critical to our mission. Not just in this moment, but always.

Location: Tucson, AZ: https://careers.rtx.com/global/en/raytheon-tucson,-az-location

This position requires a security clearance. DCSA Consolidated Adjudication Services (DCSA CAS), an agency of the Department of Defense, handles and adjudicates the security clearance process. More information about Security Clearances can be found on the US Department of State government website here: https://www.state.gov/m/ds/clearances/c10978.htm 

The salary range for this role is 96,000 USD - 200,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, 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. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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