Senior Principal Systems Engineer – SDS

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🔥 13 hours ago

🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $132.4k - $251.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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RTX

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2020

🏭 Manufacturing

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Manufacturing • Consulting • Logistics

RTX is a globally recognized aerospace and defense company dedicated to transformative technologies and era-defining innovation. It operates through various businesses, including Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon, with a focus on sustainable, connected flight and smarter defense systems. RTX is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion across the company and aims to solve the world’s most complex problems with cutting-edge technology and talent. Additionally, RTX is involved in significant projects like upgrading the F135 Engine Core and developing missile-defense systems. The company emphasizes corporate responsibility and sustainable practices.

📋 Description

• Provide leadership for development, integration, and validation of multi-domain mission systems supporting aircraft and ground stations for U.S. military customers • Transform program earned value and cost account reporting through new methods and toolsets while maintaining EVM principles and best practices • Drive continuous improvement initiatives to streamline cost management and enhance program performance • Provide leading indicators for projected performance and future planning • Partner with engineering teams to develop work scope, schedules, and resource requirements • Collaborate with finance, program management, supply chain, engineering, customers, subcontractors, and executive leadership • Lead full-lifecycle solution development from CONOPS through validation • Organize and lead lab setup, configuration management, and testing • Own preparation, cost, and schedule of design reviews, integration, dry run, and formal qualification testing • Influence decision-makers with recommended courses of action for complex problems

🎯 Requirements

• Experience managing control accounts in EV-compliant environments, such as ANSI-748, on a large defense program exceeding $1B • Experience leading CAMs, IPTLs, and/or project engineers with scope, schedule, and cost accountability • Strong application of earned value methods, including baseline management, variance analysis, CPI/SPI interpretation, EAC forecasting, and corrective action planning • Strong understanding and application of Agile principles, rolling wave planning, and detailed planning processes • Practical experience across the full Systems Engineering V lifecycle, from CONOPS development to sustainment • Ability to lead financial and schedule planning and reporting for multidisciplinary design teams • Typically requires a STEM degree and minimum 10 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience • U.S. citizenship required • Active and transferable U.S. government-issued Secret security clearance required before start date • Ability to obtain Top Secret clearance within 1 year after start • Experience with RAYTHEON toolsets and methodologies, such as PMX, GEMs, and RLPM • EV and/or PM6 certification or equivalent • Experience with Survivable Mobile Command Center architectures and operations • Experience supporting software and hardware development • Experience with system or application integration • Experience with SATCOM, LOS/BLOS, AEHF, or V/UHF communications radio and systems • Experience with computer networking for ground-based, ship, submarine, or airborne platforms • Experience with scripting

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees • 401(k) plan with employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option • Tuition reimbursement program • Student Loan Repayment Program • Life insurance and disability coverage • Optional pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, and ID theft protection • Birth, adoption, and parental leave benefits • Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning • Adoption Assistance • Autism Benefit • Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions • Healthy You Incentives wellness rewards program • Doctor on Demand virtual doctor visits • Bright Horizons child and elder care services • Teladoc Medical Experts second opinion program • Flexible work schedules • Employee Scholar Program • Paid time off and holidays • Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be available, depending on position level and collective-bargaining coverage