Senior Systems Engineer

Raytheon; Aurora (CO); On-site; USD 86,800 - 165,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Relocation eligible

Job summary

Raytheon in Aurora, Colorado is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer for Application Services to design and deliver reusable application capabilities for a next-generation satellite C2 system. You will collaborate with software engineers, architects, and product leadership to enhance consistency, observability, and developer productivity across the program.

The role requires leading engineering activities, defining interfaces, verification strategies, and implementing automated testing and CI/CD

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of experience.
• Experience performing systems engineering on software-intensive systems.
• Experience defining system behavior, interfaces, verification approaches, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience collaborating with software development teams in Agile environments.
• Active and transferable U.S. government-issued TS/SCI clearance and U.S. citizenship.

Responsibilities

• Lead systems engineering activities for Application Services capabilities from concept through verification.
• Define functional behavior, interfaces, operational scenarios, acceptance criteria, and verification strategies for reusable capabilities.
• Design observability capabilities including instrumentation, metrics, logging, tracing, health monitoring, and alerting.
• Develop verification strategies for unit, feature, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Collaborate with software developers to design and contribute automated test scenarios using Playwright or equivalents.
• Develop reusable engineering artifacts, design patterns, and reference implementations to reduce duplication across teams.
• Maintain a systems-level perspective to support mission objectives and long-term maintainability.
• Participate in capability elaboration, technical reviews, and PI Planning.
• Work on-site in Aurora, Colorado.

Skills

Systems engineering

Agile development

Observability

Testing strategy

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Kubernetes

MBSE

AI for anomaly detection

Collaboration with software teams

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in STEM

Tools

Playwright

Job description

Senior Systems Engineer – Application Services

Senior Systems Engineer supporting a premier program within Raytheon, an RTX Business. In this role, you design and deliver common application capabilities for a next‑generation satellite Command and Control (C2) system within the Mission Engineering and Platform & Security Integration (PSI) Agile Release Train. You partner with software engineers, architects, and product leadership to define reusable application capabilities that improve consistency, reliability, observability, and developer productivity across the program. Work is on‑site in Aurora, CO.

What You Will Do

• Lead systems engineering activities for Application Services capabilities from concept through verification.
• Define functional behavior, interfaces, operational scenarios, acceptance criteria, and verification strategies for reusable application capabilities.
• Design common observability capabilities supporting application instrumentation, metrics, logging, tracing, health monitoring, alerting, and mission‑relevant operational awareness across mission‑critical services.
• Define standardized instrumentation approaches that enable application teams to consistently expose service health, mission flow, and mission outcome information.
• Develop verification strategies that validate application capabilities through automated unit, feature, integration, and end‑to‑end testing.
• Collaborate with software developers to design and, where appropriate, contribute automated test scenarios using modern testing frameworks such as Playwright or equivalent technologies.
• Develop reusable engineering artifacts, design patterns, shared services, and reference implementations that improve consistency and reduce duplication across application teams.
• Maintain a systems‑level perspective to ensure engineering solutions support mission objectives, operational needs, and long‑term maintainability.
• Participate in technical exchanges and collaborate with customers, industry partners, and cross‑functional engineering teams to ensure alignment of requirements and technical solutions.
• Partner with Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cyber Engineering, and application development teams to ensure common capabilities integrate effectively into CI/CD pipelines, operational environments, and DevSecOps workflows.
• Participate in capability elaboration, technical reviews, demonstrations, integration events, and Program Increment (PI) Planning.
• Work within a closed‑area laboratory in Aurora, Colorado.

Required Qualifications

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience performing systems engineering on software‑intensive systems.
• Experience defining system behavior, interfaces, verification approaches, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience collaborating directly with software development teams in Agile development environments.
• Active and transferable U.S. government‑issued TS/SCI security clearance is required prior to the start date. U.S. citizenship is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with software testing principles, including unit, feature, integration, and system‑level verification.
• Experience with application instrumentation, observability concepts, and defining mission‑relevant operational measures.
• Experience developing automated test scenarios using frameworks such as Playwright or equivalent UI/API automation tools.
• Experience designing observability solutions for distributed software systems.
• Experience with observability technologies such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, Kubernetes, or platform‑based application architectures.
• Experience with Model‑Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methodologies.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices.
• Experience developing scripts and automation to support testing, application instrumentation, observability, or Infrastructure as Code (IaC) workflows.
• Experience incorporating AI technologies to support anomaly detection, intelligent alerting, predictive analytics, root cause analysis, and log intelligence.
• Experience developing reusable software frameworks, shared services, or common engineering capabilities supporting multiple product teams.
• Experience working with customers, operators, or external stakeholders to translate operational needs into engineering solutions.

Benefits & Compensation

Salary range: 86,800 USD – 165,200 USD.

Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short‑term and long‑term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Eligibility may vary by business unit and collective‑bargaining agreement.

Relocation eligible.

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.