Security-Cleared Systems Engineer II (RF/EW)

Socket.dev; Fort Wayne (IN); On-site; USD 69,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation eligible

Job summary

RTX is seeking an early-career Systems Engineer in Fort Wayne, IN, to help develop and test DoD electronic warfare hardware and firmware. You will work onsite, liaising with customers and engineers to decompose requirements and support system integration and test activities.

The role requires a Master’s in STEM, up to 12 months of experience, and the ability to obtain a U.S. security clearance. Travel up to 20% may be required.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) obtained by start date.
• This position requires 12 months or less of professional experience (excluding internships).
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
• Academic or extracurricular experience with radio, comms, or radar systems design, operation, analysis, or simulation.
• Experience communicating and presenting system design details and/or system test results to stakeholders
• Experience analyzing, developing and implementing solutions to complex technical problems in conditions of moderate uncertainty.
• Ability to support occasional business travel (20% or less).

Responsibilities

• System Development: Understand the customer’s functional/operational needs and participate in requirements decomposition, overseeing proper allocation of technical elements
• System Integration & Test: Support system integration, test, design verification, fault identification, failure resolution, and/or acceptance of production hardware.
• Provide engineering support to lab test and qualification activities, providing engineering oversight to the test, evaluation, and analysis of issues pertaining to system hardware and firmware functionality and performance.
• Provide support for situations including (but not limited to) customer inquiries, field failures, product obsolescence, system enhancements, new product development, integration and transition to production.
• Evaluate and assess the performance of developmental electronic warfare systems, including signal processing subsystems.
• Able to balance multiple, varying commitments, exercising discretion and with moderately low direct oversight.

Skills

Radio systems design

Signal processing

System integration

C/C++ or Python

Stakeholder communication

Travel willingness

Education

Master’s degree in STEM

Tools

MATLAB

PathWave ADS

PathWave EMPro

Job description

RTX is seeking an early-career Systems Engineer in Fort Wayne, IN, to help develop and test DoD electronic warfare hardware and firmware. You will work onsite, liaising with customers and engineers to decompose requirements and support system integration and test activities.

The role requires a Master’s in STEM, up to 12 months of experience, and the ability to obtain a U.S. security clearance. Travel up to 20% may be required.