Senior EO/IR Systems Engineer – DoD Secret Clearance

RTX; Gent; On-site; EUR 103,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

RTX's Raytheon Vision Systems seeks a Principal Systems Engineer in Goleta, CA, to lead EO/IR surveillance and targeting sensor system development. The role requires coordinating across engineering teams, managing risk, and delivering system-level specifications and validation.

The position emphasizes requirements management, trade studies, and close collaboration with production and program leadership to ensure on-time, cost-effective delivery of advanced EO/IR capabilities.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a STEM degree and 8+ years of experience in defining product specs and deriving lower-level requirements.
• Experience with system design, analysis, development, troubleshooting, testing, and performance assessment.

Responsibilities

• Ensure products meet cost, schedule, technical quality, and performance requirements.
• Provide systems engineering leadership for EO/IR programs and FPAs.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across Systems, Test, Software, Firmware, Mechanical, Electrical, and IC engineering.
• Manage engineering risks and opportunities with the PCE for proactive execution.
• Coordinate inputs for proposals and present bid summaries to management.
• Guide technical support efforts for production and development activities.
• Lead trade studies and technical analyses for stakeholders.
• Communicate findings and recommendations to leadership and customers.
• Lead teams in resolving hardware, software, and system issues through data analysis and debugging.
• Oversee development of requirements, concepts of operations, and system interfaces.
• Prepare documentation for SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, CTSR, and test data packages.
• Develop product specifications and manage requirements including derivation for subassemblies and components.

Skills

EO/IR subsystems

IR FPA technology

System design

Trade studies

Education

STEM degree

Tools

DOORs

CAMEO

MATLAB

Job description

RTX's Raytheon Vision Systems seeks a Principal Systems Engineer in Goleta, CA, to lead EO/IR surveillance and targeting sensor system development. The role requires coordinating across engineering teams, managing risk, and delivering system-level specifications and validation.

The position emphasizes requirements management, trade studies, and close collaboration with production and program leadership to ensure on-time, cost-effective delivery of advanced EO/IR capabilities.