Senior Systems Engineer - Satellite C2 & Observability

Prattwhitney; Aurora (CO); On-site; USD 107,500 - 204,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k) match

Flexible work schedules

Job summary

RTX is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer for Application Services in Aurora, CO to lead systems engineering for reusable services from concept to verification and define interfaces, scenarios, and verification criteria for mission‑critical capabilities.

You will collaborate with software teams to implement observability, automated testing, and reusable design patterns within Agile product teams, and work with Platform Engineering and SRE to integrate capabilities in CI/CD and DevSecOps

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in STEM and at least 8 years of relevant experience.
• Experience performing Systems Engineering on software‑intensive systems including requirements, interfaces and verification planning.
• Experience in Agile environments and supporting software testing across the systems engineering lifecycle.
• Ability to translate mission needs into technical solutions with strong written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead systems engineering activities for reusable Application Services from concept through verification.
• Define functional behavior, interfaces, operational scenarios, acceptance criteria, and verification strategies for common application capabilities.
• Design observability solutions supporting instrumentation, metrics, logging, tracing, health monitoring, alerting, and mission awareness across services.
• Develop verification strategies for automated unit, feature, integration, and end‑to‑end testing.
• Collaborate with software engineers to design and support automated test scenarios using Playwright or similar UI/API automation frameworks.
• Develop reusable engineering artifacts, design patterns, and shared services to reduce duplication across Agile product teams.
• Partner with Platform Engineering, SRE, Cyber Engineering, and app development teams to integrate common capabilities within CI/CD and DevSecOps workflows.
• Participate in technical reviews, PI Planning, demonstrations, customer exchanges, and integration events while maintaining a systems‑level perspective.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience

Job description

RTX is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer for Application Services in Aurora, CO to lead systems engineering for reusable services from concept to verification and define interfaces, scenarios, and verification criteria for mission‑critical capabilities.

You will collaborate with software teams to implement observability, automated testing, and reusable design patterns within Agile product teams, and work with Platform Engineering and SRE to integrate capabilities in CI/CD and DevSecOps