Electronic Warfare System Engineer

At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling – to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression.  We bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat.  Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world.

The Electronic Warfare and Airborne Sensors department within the Space and Air Sensors organization has an immediate opening for an Engineer to support the design, development, and testing of cutting-edge Electronic Warfare (EW) technology and sensor systems for a suite of products across multiple programs.  This position supports a variety of activities including but not limited to concept development, requirements management, and design oversight for RF systems, production support, failure analysis, supplier engagement, test planning and implementation, and/or system integration, verification, and validation (IV&V). The successful candidate is an energetic, focused, and capable engineer with strong organizational capabilities and a drive to learn and grow. The ideal candidate has strong analytical and problem-solving skills, the ability to operate independently with moderate supervision, is a strong team player, and can establish solid working relationships with team leadership and peers.

ONSITE Position in Fort Wayne, IN

What You Will Do:

System Development: Understand the customer’s functional/operational needs and participate in requirements decomposition, overseeing proper allocation of technical elements 

System Integration & Test: Support system integration, test, design verification, fault identification, failure resolution, and/or acceptance of production hardware.

Provide engineering support to lab test and qualification activities, providing engineering oversight to the test, evaluation, and analysis of issues pertaining to system hardware and firmware functionality and performance.

Provide support for situations including (but not limited to) customer inquiries, field failures, product obsolescence, system enhancements, new product development, integration and transition to production.

Evaluate and assess the performance of developmental electronic warfare systems, including signal processing subsystems.

Able to balance multiple, varying commitments, exercising discretion and with moderately low direct oversight.

Qualifications You Must Have:

Typically requires a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Physics, or Computer Science.

Academic or extracurricular experience with radio, comms, or radar systems design, operation, analysis, or simulation.

Experience communicating and presenting system design details and/or system test results to stakeholders

Experience analyzing, developing and implementing solutions to complex technical problems in conditions of moderate uncertainty. 

Ability to support occasional business travel (20% or less).

U.S. Citizenship status is required as this position needs an active U.S. Secret Security Clearance after day one of employment

Qualifications We Prefer:

Exposure to RF system design, digital and/or analog signal processing, waveform and signal modulation analysis, and/or algorithm implementation and testing.

Experience with development, implementation, and test of RF jamming algorithms.

Experience using MATLAB, PathWave ADS, and/or PathWave EMPro for simulation and design of RF systems.

Exposure to/experience with C/C++ or Python programing languages

RF receiver/exciter product design, development, and/or test experience in the Electronic Attack (i.e. signals jamming) sub-domain of EW.

Understanding of embedded systems and embedded programming. Experience with design/implementation of embedded systems on FPGA hardware.

Familiarity with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) principles and tools (eg Cameo or similar).

Experience with Agile development methodologies and tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence)

Experience using DOORS for requirements management.

What We Offer:

Whether you’re just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a total rewards package that goes above and beyond with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement, and work/life benefits; career development and recognition programs. Some of the benefits we offer include parental (including paternal) leave, flexible work schedules, achievement awards, educational assistance and child/adult backup care.

Employee Referral Award Eligibility: This requisition is eligible for an employee referral award. ALL eligibility requirements must be met to receive the referral award.

Location Information: This position is located in Fort Wayne, IN.