Senior Radar Systems Engineer - Missile Defense (Onsite)

RTX (Raytheon); Fort Wayne (IN); On-site; USD 87,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

RTX (Raytheon) in Fort Wayne, IN is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to design, develop, test, and sustain advanced radar technologies onsite. The role spans requirements management, architecture, performance analysis, and cross‑disciplinary collaboration with software teams.

Responsibilities include prototyping algorithms, presenting results to leadership and customers, and contributing to multiple capability areas such as electronic protection, signal processing, and modeling.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a STEM degree and 5+ years of RF system design, signal processing, radar waveform analysis, or related testing experience.
• Experience with radar systems hardware, software, and firmware integration and testing.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance; U.S. citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Define radar system requirements and architecture with a systems engineering approach.
• Analyze radar performance against requirements and identify improvements.
• Prototype algorithms to enhance system capability and present results to teams and customers.
• Serve as SME to agile software teams ensuring correct implementation of system requirements.
• Contribute to capability areas such as signal processing, radar calibration, testing, and modeling.

Skills

RF design

Signal processing

Algorithm testing

System requirements

MBSE/MBSE tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM field

Tools

MATLAB

C/C++

Java

DOORS

Job description

RTX (Raytheon) in Fort Wayne, IN is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to design, develop, test, and sustain advanced radar technologies onsite. The role spans requirements management, architecture, performance analysis, and cross‑disciplinary collaboration with software teams.

Responsibilities include prototyping algorithms, presenting results to leadership and customers, and contributing to multiple capability areas such as electronic protection, signal processing, and modeling.