System Requirements Engineer

globalhr; Harlow; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension up to 10.5%

Life assurance

25 days holiday

Discretionary bonus

Flexible benefits

Enhanced sick pay

Parental leave

Job summary

Raytheon Technologies in Harlow seeks a Systems Engineer to support Raytheon’s ATMS product lifecycle. You will contribute across requirements capture, analysis, design, testing and qualification activities, and help generate bid materials.

The role offers growth toward team leadership within a growing Raytheon Technologies unit, with a strong emphasis on collaboration and high-precision engineering.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in System Engineering across the lifecycle.
• Experience from requirements through to certification.
• Experience generating technical documentation (internal and for customers).
• Ability to communicate policies, practices and procedures to the team.
• Autonomous working with limited oversight.
• Ability to meet agreed timescales and work under pressure.
• Degree in STEM or similar.

Responsibilities

• Support the System Design Authority and Systems Engineering Team Leaders with developing and managing project requirements.
• Generate technical documentation and participate in design reviews.
• Assist in bid proposals and responses to customer requests.
• Work at Raytheon's Harlow facility with development studies and stakeholder interfacing.
• Operate in a highly technical environment, both autonomously and as part of a large team.

Skills

System Engineering

Lifecycle experience

Technical documentation

Autonomous working

Team collaboration

Education

Degree in STEM

Tools

IBM Rational DOORS

SysML/UML

Configuration management

Job description

Date Posted:

2026-09-23

Country:

United Kingdom

Location:

Harlow, Essex

Position Role Type:

Hybrid

System Requirements Engineer

Harlow

Hybrid, min 3 days a week onsite

ATMS

Our ATMS business has heritage in the development, manufacture, sustainment and support of secondary surveillance radar technology. Out technology is relied upon to marshal more than two-thirds of the world’s air traffic due to its precision accuracy and ability to detect aircraft even within the most crowded airspace. Designed and manufactured in the UK, our products are exported globally to RTX customers in more than 45 countries.

Summaryof Role:

This is an exciting opportunity for a Systems Engineer to work within the Raytheon Air Traffic Management Systems team, part of the wider Weapons and Sensors business unit.

The role will provide support across Raytheon’s range of ATMS systems, providing Systems Engineering expertise across the product lifecycle, from requirements capture, Analysis, Design through to testing and qualification activities.

The role is also seen as the stepping stone to a Team Leading Position for candidate that wants to pursue that career path.

Main Duties:

The role will provide support to the System Design Authority and Systems Engineering Team Leaders with the development and management of project requirements, generation of technical documentation. Systems Analysis and Design work and participation in technical design reviews. Further, supporting the Systems Team in the generation of bid proposal material and submission of bids in response to customer requests.

The role will be based at Raytheon’s Harlow facility and the successful candidate will have access to professional development opportunities and be part of the growing Raytheon Technologies team, where the candidate will be required to undertake development studies and investigation activities involving product performance and interfacing with various internal stakeholders.

The role will involve working in a highly technical environment, supporting the team as well as working autonomously. Taking on complex challenges and producing a solution that follows company process in a timely manner is an essential part of the role. A successful candidate will be comfortable integrating into a large team to accomplish their goals.

Candidate Requirements:

Essential

• Proven experience in System Engineering
• Experience across the systems engineering lifecycle from requirements through to certification
• Experience with generation of technical documentation (internal and for customers)
• Understanding of policies, practises and procedures, and the ability to communicate these to their team.
• Ability to work autonomously, with limited oversight from Team Leaders and Management
• Ability to work within agreed timescales
• Ability to work in a team and perform under pressure
• Degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) or similar

Desirable

• Knowledge of Air Traffic Management or Radar systems would be beneficial
• Experience with Air Traffic Management or Radar systems would be beneficial
• Experience with the IBM Rational DOORS toolset
• Experience with SysMl or UML in a Systems Engineering environment
• Experience with configuration management systems
• Membership / Chartership with INCOSE (or similar professional body)

Benefits:

• £: Competitive salary
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave

Work Culture

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.
• Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.