Senior Systems Engineer – Radar & AI for Missile Defense

Prattwhitney; Woburn (MA); On-site; USD 87,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

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

RTX in Woburn, MA is seeking a highly skilled Senior Systems Engineer to join the MDS team supporting the AN/TPY-2 Missile Defense Radar Program. Onsite role with responsibilities in algorithm design, radar performance analysis, and agile collaboration on complex sensor systems.

The role requires 5+ years in STEM, experience in radar engineering, and DoD clearance. Advanced degrees are preferred; MATLAB, C/C++, ADA, and DOORS are used for modeling and software architecture.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience in systems engineering including requirements development, documentation, and/or system‑level software architecture.
• Minimum of 2+ years of experience in radar engineering or related technical disciplines.
• Expertise in Electronic Protection and Arbitrary Waveform concepts and employment techniques.
• Proficiency in developing and coding system models, algorithms, test vectors, and analysis tools to analyze radar requirements and performance.
• Experience utilizing AI, ML, and signal processing techniques in database and algorithm development.
• Familiarity with BMC4I systems.
• Practical knowledge of signal processing techniques and radar system concepts, including detection, discrimination, tracking, and signal processing algorithms.
• Proficiency with tools and programming languages such as MATLAB, C/C++, ADA, or DOORS.
• Proven experience in system‑level requirements development, documentation, and maintenance, or design and development of system‑level software architecture.
• Strong communication, technical writing, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to interface with customers and lead technical solutions to complex challenges.
• Strong analytical, technical, and problem‑solving abilities.
• Active DoD Security Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Designing and prototyping new algorithms to enhance system performance.
• Analyzing radar system performance data to ensure compliance with requirements.
• Identifying performance gaps and proposing innovative solutions.
• Presenting technical plans, designs, and performance analyses to peers, internal leadership, and external customers.
• Providing subject matter expertise to agile software development teams to enable proper implementation of requirements.

Skills

Radar engineering

Systems engineering

AI/ML in radar

MATLAB

C/C++

ADA

DOORS

Education

Master’s degree in Engineering or related

Advanced degree (Master’s or PhD)

Tools

MATLAB

DOORS

ADA

C/C++

Job description

RTX in Woburn, MA is seeking a highly skilled Senior Systems Engineer to join the MDS team supporting the AN/TPY-2 Missile Defense Radar Program. Onsite role with responsibilities in algorithm design, radar performance analysis, and agile collaboration on complex sensor systems.

The role requires 5+ years in STEM, experience in radar engineering, and DoD clearance. Advanced degrees are preferred; MATLAB, C/C++, ADA, and DOORS are used for modeling and software architecture.