Systems Engineer I - RF/EW (Onsite, Fort Wayne)

Prattwhitney; Fort Wayne (IN); On-site; USD 57,000 - 109,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Safety first culture

Medical benefits

401(k) match

Paid time off

Job summary

RTX is seeking an Engineer to support the design, development, and testing of cutting-edge Electronic Warfare (EW) technology and sensor systems. Onsite in Fort Wayne, IN, you will contribute to RF system design, verification, and production support across multiple programs.

The ideal candidate has a STEM degree and experience with RF, signal processing, and embedded systems, plus familiarity with MBSE, Agile tools, and DOORS.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) obtained prior to start.
• Academic or extracurricular experience with radio, comms, or radar systems design, operation, analysis, or simulation.
• Experience communicating and presenting system design details and/or system test results to stakeholders.
• Experience analyzing, developing and implementing solutions to complex technical problems in conditions of moderate uncertainty.
• Experience may be obtained through on-the-job experience, research, coursework, or projects.

Responsibilities

• System Development: Understand the customers functional/operational needs and participate in requirements decomposition, overseeing proper allocation of technical elements
• System Integration & Test: Support system integration, test, design verification, fault identification, failure resolution, and/or acceptance of production hardware.
• Provide engineering support to lab test and qualification activities, providing engineering oversight to the test, evaluation, and analysis of issues pertaining to system hardware and firmware functionality and performance.
• Provide support for situations including (but not limited to) customer inquiries, field failures, product obsolescence, system enhancements, new product development, integration and transition to production.
• Evaluate and assess the performance of developmental electronic warfare systems, including signal processing subsystems.
• Able to balance multiple, varying commitments, exercising discretion and with moderately low direct oversight.
• Support occasional business travel (20% or less).

Skills

RF design

Signal processing

C/C++

Python

Embedded systems

MBSE

Agile/Jira

DOORS

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM (e.g., Electrical/Computer Engineering)

Tools

MATLAB

PathWave ADS

PathWave EMPro

DOORS

Job description

RTX is seeking an Engineer to support the design, development, and testing of cutting-edge Electronic Warfare (EW) technology and sensor systems. Onsite in Fort Wayne, IN, you will contribute to RF system design, verification, and production support across multiple programs.

The ideal candidate has a STEM degree and experience with RF, signal processing, and embedded systems, plus familiarity with MBSE, Agile tools, and DOORS.