Senior Radar Hardware Engineer - DoD Systems

RTX; Plano (AL); On-site; USD 108,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

RTX is seeking a Principal Electrical Engineer in Plano, TX, to lead hardware for advanced radar systems within the Advanced Radar Department. The role demands 8+ years’ experience, DoD Secret clearance, and on-site collaboration across Plano and McKinney facilities.

Occasional travel up to 25% is required to support production and field activities. The successful candidate will shape hardware requirements, direct complex investigations, and drive risk management across multiple contracts while

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 US 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

Hardware leadership

Radar systems

Security architecture

Root-cause investigations

Education

STEM degree

Tools

PRISM

SAP

CMES

Job description

RTX is seeking a Principal Electrical Engineer in Plano, TX, to lead hardware for advanced radar systems within the Advanced Radar Department. The role demands 8+ years’ experience, DoD Secret clearance, and on-site collaboration across Plano and McKinney facilities.

Occasional travel up to 25% is required to support production and field activities. The successful candidate will shape hardware requirements, direct complex investigations, and drive risk management across multiple contracts while