Lead Electrical Power Architect for Missile Guidance

RTX; Tucson (AZ); On-site; USD 108,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Career development

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

RTX is seeking a Principal Electrical Subsystem Architect for the Advanced Effector Guidance Systems under RTX Missiles & Defense. You will lead architecture for high‑reliability power and precision analog subsystems used in missile guidance and control, coordinating across systems, RF, and digital teams.

This onsite role requires a DoD Secret clearance and a strong track record in power electronics, EMI/EMC, and mixed‑signal design.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering; MS/PhD preferred.
• Minimum 8+ years in power electronics, analog design, mixed‑signal, or high‑reliability electronics.
• Experience negotiating with cross‑discipline SMEs and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Architect high reliability power systems and precision analog subsystems for guidance, navigation, and control electronics.
• Lead power architecture trade studies, technology evaluations, and down‑selections aligned to performance, cost, producibility, and environmental constraints.
• Assess designs with varying maturity: early concepts, legacy designs, near production configurations.
• Identify gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities in immature or evolving designs, and mentor teams in closing those gaps.
• Perform detailed analysis of power system loads, margins, thermal impacts, transient behavior, and EMI/EMC.
• Guide teams through component selection, derating, survivability requirements, and high‑reliability screening strategies.
• Participate in and lead engineering reviews, readiness events, risk reduction activities, cross‑disciplinary integration efforts, and failure review boards.
• Support hardware bring‑up, prototype evaluation, root‑cause analysis, and design refinement.
• Coordinate with systems engineering, digital design, RF, modeling/simulation, GNC, and manufacturing disciplines to ensure robust and producible electrical power architectures.
• Support technology roadmaps and contribute to long‑term capability development across the portfolio.
• Focus on system trades, quantifiable decision‑making, and mandatory application of real‑world behaviors and military/aerospace specifications.

Skills

Power electronics

Analog design

High-reliability electronics

EMI/EMC

Modeling languages

SPICE simulation

System architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

MS/PhD preferred

Tools

VHDL-AMS/MAST

State-AMS

SPICE simulation tools

Job description

RTX is seeking a Principal Electrical Subsystem Architect for the Advanced Effector Guidance Systems under RTX Missiles & Defense. You will lead architecture for high‑reliability power and precision analog subsystems used in missile guidance and control, coordinating across systems, RF, and digital teams.

This onsite role requires a DoD Secret clearance and a strong track record in power electronics, EMI/EMC, and mixed‑signal design.