Principal Systems Engineer

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Raytheon aspires to be the most admired defense and aerospace systems supplier through world-class people and technology. Headquartered in Waltham, MA, Raytheon employs 80,000 people world-wide and generated $21.9 billion in 2005 sales.




Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) is Raytheon's leader in mission systems integration. With a strong international and domestic customer base, including the U.S. Missile Defense Agency and the U.S. armed forces, IDS provides integrated air and missile defense and naval and maritime war fighting solutions. Headquartered in Tewksbury, MA, IDS employs 13,000 people worldwide and generated $3.8 billion in 2005 revenue.



Bring your talent and skills to the following IDS group:




SADID:




The Systems Architecture Design and Integration Directorate is the central focus for Mission Systems Integration activities within IDS. More than 1000 employees of SADID provide requirement definition and design at the system, subsystem and component level. Supporting these activities is modeling and simulation, system effectiveness and operational analysis, radar systems design, algorithm development, tracking and discrimination.


This assignment is for work at the TI3, LLC Joint Partnership facility in Huntsville, AL . The location is co-resident with our joint partner and Government customer.



This position is for a software/systems engineer to participate on a systems engineering team which will define the Integrated Air and Missile Defense and System of Systems (IAMD/SoS) architecture and requirements. Specific duties will include:
- Participate in joint working groups to define joint track management and track processing requirements.
- Analyze alternate system architectures and define relative merits and performance of each alternate system relative to requirements.
- Define functional requirements for components of the IAMD/SoS system.


Basic Qualifications
- Demonstrated expertise with modern radar target tracking and processing, target tracking filters, multi-sensor correlation methods, and tactical data links.
- At least 6 years experience in tactical air defense system development.
- Secret or higher clearance.


Desired skills
- Experience with joint service (Army plus Air Force, Navy or USMC) integration methods.


- Experience in Air and Missile Defense (AMD) systems/software engineering, particularly in developing requirements, conducting performance analyses and preparing trade studies, and performing functional allocation.
- Understanding of DoD and Army system development practices such as decision review sequence, entrance and exit criteria, software development practices, and test and evaluation requirements.
- Understanding and experience with industry standard systems engineering processes and practices.

Required education

BS in ME, EE, Physics or related technical discipline is required, MS in engineering is preferred.



Special work requirements

1. Frequent CONUS business travel is expected.

2. Candidate will be required to sign and comply with an Organization Conflict of Interest (OCI) agreement that prevents TI3 employees from contributing (e.g. capture team/proposal team) for PEO M&S new business capture for two years after leaving TI3. The OCI does not prevent individuals from working on awarded PEO M&S contracts after leaving TI3.

Raytheon is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, disability, veterans status, sexual orientation, or any other protected factor.

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