Senior Engineer - Warhead/Lethality

Raytheon; Tucson (AZ); On-site; USD 86,800 - 165,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Healthcare benefits

Flexible work schedules

401(k) match

Educational assistance

Job summary

A leading defense technology company in Tucson is seeking a Senior Engineer for Warhead integration. The role involves applying advanced technologies, supporting design, analysis, and working with customers. Candidates must have a Bachelor’s in STEM, five years of relevant experience, and the ability to obtain a U.S. security clearance. The position offers competitive salary range from $86,800 to $165,200, alongside comprehensive healthcare and retirement benefits.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in warhead development.
• Experience in solid propulsion systems from design to assembly.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Apply technologies to warhead integration into missile systems.
• Interface with customers to identify needs.
• Conduct hydrocode simulation and analysis.
• Support warhead design and evaluation.

Skills

Warhead development

Solid propulsion systems

Project management

Technical writing

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Advanced degree

Job description

Position Overview

The Energetics and Propulsion Department is an engineering organization in the Hardware Engineering Directorate. This department is responsible for the full spectrum of warhead, fuzing and propulsion designs/technology. The department is seeking to hire a Senior Engineer – Warhead. The Engineer II – Warhead role is in Tucson, AZ and is an onsite position.

Responsibilities

• Apply or develop advanced technologies, scientific principles, theories, and concepts to warhead integration into missile systems.
• Involve with both development and production programs across Raytheon Product Lines.
• Interface with the Customer to identify user needs.
• Work with customers, subcontractors and suppliers to resolve engineering issues, develop new products and hold technical reviews.
• Conduct hydrocode simulation and lethality analysis.
• Support warhead design, analysis, test, and evaluation.
• Develop Statements of Work (SOWs).
• Develop Critical Item Development Specifications (CIDS) and Technical Data Packages (TDP).
• Support fact-finding and contract negotiations.
• Ensure technical rigor and depth of all deliverables.
• Will travel periodically to government and subcontractor facilities.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a Bachelor in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience.
• Five (5) years of experience in the development of warheads from conceptual design through final test/assembly.
• Experience in the development of solid propulsion systems from conceptual design through final test/assembly.
• Project Management experience as applied to team interaction and deliverables.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a US security clearance prior to the start date. U.S. citizenship is required as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Qualifications We Prefer

• Advanced degree.
• Eight (8) or more years of directly related experience in warhead design, analysis and development from conceptual design through final test and assembly.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and lead collaborative efforts with other technical disciplines including structural, thermal and aerodynamics.
• Technical writing skills in the area of detailed design requirements, test requirements, statements of work, white paper and technical presentations.
• Supplier collaboration experience and oversight generating specifications and statements of work.
• Working knowledge or experience with missile design or development, production support and integration.
• Experience with DoD customers and/or associated contractor executives and technical leadership.
• Active Secret or Top Secret clearance (Department of Defense).

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of 86,800 USD – 165,200 USD.
• Healthcare, wellness and retirement benefits.
• Flexible work schedules and parental leave (including paternal leave).
• Achievement awards, educational assistance and child/adult backup care.
• 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts and employee assistance program.
• Other benefits dependent on the specific business unit.

Equal Opportunity Employer

RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified individuals with a disability and protected veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.