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Senior Principal Systems Engineer – Airborne Systems
| Company | RTX |
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| Location | San Jose, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $137000 – $275000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 14 years of relevant experience.
- EW/ESM/ELINT system development domain experience and engineering technical skills in one or more of the following areas:
- Radar signal processing and analysis
- RF receiver characteristics (sensitivity, SNR, NF) and types
- Direction of arrival measurements and emitter location techniques
- Radar signal identification/sorting (Deinterleaving)
- EW/ELINT PED operations and JICD 4 standards
- Detailed hands-on system development including system architecture development, complex signals processing algorithm development, rigorous performance testing and validation, and integration of systems.
- The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued TS/SCI security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
Responsibilities
- Apply your systems engineering development experience to advance our next generation airborne Communications Intelligence (COMINT) and Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) solutions.
- Contribute to and be an integral part of multi-discipline engineering project teams and be challenged by real-work assignments.
- Perform technical research, develop technical solutions, documentation and presentations, and lead concept demonstrations and contribute to bid and proposal activities.
- Travel up to 20% time typically for business and customer meetings/demonstrations, operational field support and system deployments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Active U.S. government issued TS/SCI security clearance or current SSBI.
- Practical systems and software engineering experience in product development, integration, deployment, and/or sustainment of systems for the U.S. Department of Defense and/or Intelligence Community.
- Experience with ELINT databases (EPL, CED, EWIR, MIDB, etc.)
- Experience with laboratory and field testing and troubleshooting of airborne COMINT and/or ELINT systems to the hardware, software and/or firmware unit levels.
- Experience performing system deployments (installation, integration/validation/verification), including travel to customer facilities.
- Practical experience with antennas, RF propagation and receivers, RF system calibration operations as these relate to subsystem-level analysis methodologies.
