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Principal Systems Engineer - Ejection Seating (onsite)

Coordinate system requirements and verification activities for military ejection seat hardware
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Senior
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Raytheon

Raytheon

A leading aerospace and defense company providing advanced systems and services for commercial, military, and government customers worldwide.

Lead Systems Engineer

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers' toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.

The Collins Aerospace Ejection Seating business is the leader in providing a safe and robust Ejection Seating System to domestic and foreign customers alike. Currently, we are in the process of modernizing fleets to the upgraded ACES 5 design, providing a safer ejection system to ensure those who are born to fly, live to walk away.

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated individual to join us as a lead systems engineer to support all phases of ejection seat product development lifecycle including the bid, design, development, verification & validation. The preferred candidate will have experience with hardware development for military/DoD customers.

What You Will Do

  • Interface with customers/suppliers/internal stakeholders to understand needs and scope to be able assess current capabilities, compliance status and risks/opportunities
  • Evaluate external and internal customer requirements to define system functional, physical and performance requirements, integrate technical parameters, and assure compatibility of platform interfaces
  • Allocate, decompose and derive lower-level requirements, identify and resolve gaps, capture traceability and design decision rationale
  • Work with Test Engineering on requirements verification and validation, including supporting the creation and review of plans, procedures and reports
  • Manage requirements change throughout the development life cycle to ensure robust documentation is established for product qualification
  • Communicate and collaborate effectively and professionally with other engineering disciplines, other project team members, customers, sub-contractors and suppliers
  • Support capture of project and product requirements in requirements database/library (ex. Jama)
  • Use agile tools (ex. Jira) to complete the planning, execution of assigned tasking for each monthly sprint/increment
  • Follow company procedures while utilizing domain best practices to plan and execute engineering activities to meet program cost, quality and schedule objectives
  • Participate in peer reviews throughout the product lifecycle of design, development, integration and test, and flight test requirements verification
  • Participate in Root Cause Analysis utilizing Raytheon Technologies Best Practices
  • Contribute to continual process improvement and functional excellence by supporting the development of new discipline approaches, techniques and tool usage
  • The position requires strong interpersonal skills, high degree of comfort with ambiguity, good project discipline, excellent oral and written communication skills, high computer/technology proficiency, and the ability to work independently
  • Occasional travel may be required

Qualifications You Must Have

  • Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience
  • Experience with agile tools (ex. JIRA)

Qualifications We Prefer

  • Experience with model-based systems engineering (MBSE) practices, including utilizing Cameo to create functional, physical and behavior diagrams, analyze design and proposed changes against requirements, assist with system system/component trade studies, and facilitate the use of Cameo simulations
  • Previous Propulsion experience preferred
  • Experience with root cause analysis

What We Offer

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
  • Generous 401(k) plan that includes 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 coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
  • Birth, adoption, 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
  • And more!
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Principal Systems Engineer - Ejection Seating (onsite)
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Engineering
About Raytheon
A leading aerospace and defense company providing advanced systems and services for commercial, military, and government customers worldwide.