Senior Electrical Engineer - Radar Systems Lead

Raytheon; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 108,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

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

Holidays

Job summary

Raytheon seeks a Principal Electrical Engineer to serve as a senior hardware leader for a complex Family of Systems in the Advanced Sensor Program. The role covers airborne radar systems, security‑driven hardware architectures, and high‑rate production readiness across contracts.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in radar hardware development, experience with secure architectures, and an active DoD clearance. Plano/McKinney, TX onsite with travel and mentorship responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM).
• A minimum of 8 years of experience in the development, integration, and sustainment of complex radar systems.
• Experience implementing hardware solutions designed with emphasis on security‑driven architecture.
• Experience conducting failure investigations and providing recommendations to address systemic issues and to prevent recurrence.
• Active and transferable U.S. Government issued security clearance prior to the start date. U.S. citizenship is required as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior hardware technical leader responsible for driving FoS level alignment across engineering, production, operations, suppliers, and program leadership.
• Lead complex hardware investigations, providing decisive technical direction, ensuring thorough root‑cause resolution, and safeguarding hardware performance, security, reliability, and production readiness.
• Shape and influence hardware requirements, specifications, and design decisions—both internally and with suppliers—to maintain technical rigor, requirement integrity, and system‑level cohesion across contracts.
• Communicate critical technical issues, risks, and cross‑contract impacts with clarity to leadership and customers, including actionable recommendations and strategic paths to resolution
• Provide mentorship, guidance, and technical elevation for hardware engineering teams to strengthen execution across the entire hardware lifecycle.
• Maintain proactive ownership of technical risk across a Family of Systems, ensuring issues affecting production, manufacturing, supplier performance, or engineering execution are rapidly identified and driven to closure.
• Ability to travel periodically to different Raytheon facilities, suppliers, and/or customer sites to support in‑person meetings, system integration efforts, and on‑site investigations (up to 25%)

Skills

Radar systems

Hardware leadership

Security architecture

Failure investigations

Mentoring teams

Education

STEM degree

Tools

PRISM

SAP

CMES

Job description

Raytheon seeks a Principal Electrical Engineer to serve as a senior hardware leader for a complex Family of Systems in the Advanced Sensor Program. The role covers airborne radar systems, security‑driven hardware architectures, and high‑rate production readiness across contracts.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in radar hardware development, experience with secure architectures, and an active DoD clearance. Plano/McKinney, TX onsite with travel and mentorship responsibilities.