Vision Systems - Senior Systems Engineer

globalhr; Goleta (CA); Sur place; USD 120 000 - 190 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Relocation assistance

Résumé du poste

RTX in Goleta, California is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer with EO/IR surveillance and targeting sensor systems experience to plan, manage, and deliver multidisciplinary engineering activities onsite.

You will lead requirements, verification plans, data analysis, and cross‑functional collaboration across Systems, Test, Software, and Mechanical teams, while ensuring cost, schedule, and performance commitments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM and 5+ years in EO/IR systems.
• Hands-on design, analysis, development, troubleshooting, and testing experience.

Responsabilités

• Work with PCE, LSE, and IPTL to ensure cost, schedule, technical quality, and performance.
• Provide systems engineering leadership for EO/IR programs including requirements management and verification planning.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across Systems, Test, Software, Firmware, Mechanical, Electrical, and IC engineering.
• Manage engineering risks and opportunities with IPTL, LSE, and PCE.
• Coordinate inputs for proposals and present bid summaries to management.
• Guide technical support for production and development activities.
• Lead trade studies and technical analyses for stakeholders.
• Communicate findings to leadership and customers.
• Lead teams in resolving hardware, software, and system issues via data analysis.
• Oversee requirements, concepts of operations, and system interfaces.
• Prepare documentation for SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, CTSR, and test data packages.
• Develop product specifications and manage requirements including subassembly requirements.

Connaissances

Systems Engineering

EO/IR Surveillance

Requirements Management

Data Analysis

Cross-functional Teamwork

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in STEM

Outils

MATLAB

DOORs

Description du poste

Date Posted: 2026-09-15

Country: United States of America

Location: US-CA-GOLETA-B01 ~ 6825 Cortona Dr ~ BLDG B01

Position Role Type: Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements: The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Security Clearance Type: DoD Clearance: Secret

Security Clearance Status: Active and existing security clearance required after day 1

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace, and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world.

Raytheon Vision Systems (RVS) Systems Integration and Test Department is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer with experience in airborne and space electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) surveillance and targeting sensor systems. The Systems Engineer plans and manages the multidisciplinary/cross-functional engineering activities and associated budgets, guides engineering follow-through of work products and support, supports proposal and change management activities for engineering and supports the bid manager for proposals within engineering.

The Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test Department is responsible for all Electro-Optic Imaging Systems Definition, Architecture, Integration, product Verification & Validation along with program and project technical implementation to cost and schedule. This is an Onsite position located in Goleta, California.

What You Will Do

• Work with the Program Chief Engineer (PCE), Lead Systems Engineer (LSE), and Integrated Program Team Lead (IPTL) to ensure products meet cost, schedule, technical quality, and performance requirements
• Provide systems engineering leadership for RVS EO/IR, focal plane array (FPA) programs, including tasking such as requirements management, authoring performance specifications, defining verification plans, performing data analysis, etc.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams across Systems, Test, Software, Firmware, Mechanical, Electrical, and Integrated Circuit engineering
• Manage engineering risks and opportunities with the IPTL, LSE, and PCE to support proactive program execution
• Coordinate engineering inputs for proposals and present bid summaries to management
• Guide technical support efforts for production and development activities
• Lead and present trade studies and technical analyses to stakeholders
• Communicate technical findings and recommendations to leadership and customers
• Lead teams in resolving hardware, software, and system issues through detailed data analysis and debugging
• Oversee development and maintenance of requirements, concepts of operations, and system interfaces
• Prepare documentation for formal reviews including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, CTSR, and test data packages
• Develop product specifications and manage requirements, including derivation of lower‑level subassembly and component requirements

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience or an advanced degree in a related field and minimum 3 years\' experience with airborne and space electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) surveillance and targeting sensor systems
• System experience with hands on experience in the design, analysis, development, troubleshooting, and testing

Qualifications We Prefer

• Factory production and direct experience with IR FPA design and testing for tactical and/or space environments
• System experience with EO/IR subsystems, IR FPA technology, semiconductor fabrication processes, photonics, optics manufacturing, or related industry experience airborne and space electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) surveillance and targeting sensor systems
• Vacuum packaging, dewar design, cryogenic cooling, and/or opto-mechanics
• Requirements Organization via DOORs
• Experience creating analytical models and scripting for data analysis (MATLAB preferred)
• Plan, lead, and execute root-cause and corrective-action (RCCA) efforts
• ROIC wafer probing, fabrication, integration, verification, and validation for a complex EO/IR system
• Earned Value Management, EVMS Certification

What We Offer:

• Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value: Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.
• Relocation Eligible – relocation assistance available for this position

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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.

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.