Arinc International Of Canada Ulc - Tucson, AZ
posted about 2 months ago
Full-time - Senior
Tucson, AZ
10,001+ employees
About the position
The Principal Systems Engineer, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) at Raytheon is responsible for designing, developing, and fielding collaborative autonomous solutions. This role requires hands-on experience with Fixed Wing UAS developments and involves working in a fast-paced environment where concepts and requirements are actively refined. The engineer will collaborate across various engineering disciplines to develop and demonstrate UAS system functionality, define system concepts, and manage requirements throughout the development and testing phases.
Responsibilities
- Apply extensive experience in Fixed Wing UAS system design in a rapid development environment.
- Develop, define, capture, maintain, and communicate system behaviors, structures, timelines, states, and configurations.
- Collaborate across engineering and with technical leadership on system architecture and design.
- Convert customer requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
- Conduct and oversee various system analyses to reduce risk, establish requirements, inform design decisions, perform design trades, and troubleshoot issues.
- Present status and analyses to various internal and external stakeholders including technical leadership, program management, and customers.
- Identify, characterize, and communicate technical risks and help plan risk mitigation activities.
- Organize and maintain the technical documentation package including designs, drawings, specifications, simulations, analyses, CAD databases, source code, executables, test plans, issue reports, etc.
- Participate in failure investigations and reviews.
- Influence the architecture of the system, establishing processes, and align RMD program leadership.
Requirements
- Typically requires a Bachelor's Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8+ years of prior relevant experience.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued Security Clearance.
- Experience working with cross-disciplined teams.
- Prior experience with Fixed Wing UAS - Unmanned Aircraft Systems trade studies, UAS system development and design, UAS systems requirements development and management, and/or UAS system integration and test.
Nice-to-haves
- Domain knowledge in UAS Command and Control Systems, Airframes/Structures/Thermodynamics, Electronics, Communications, and Power.
- Experience piloting Fixed Wing UASs.
- Experience integrating, demonstrating, and deploying complex Systems comprised of embedded SW/HW.
- Experience in Digital Engineering or Model Based Systems Engineering.
- In-depth knowledge of US Army military operations and doctrine.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- 401(k) match
- Flexible spending accounts
- Flexible work schedules
- Employee assistance program
- Employee Scholar Program
- Parental leave
- Paid time off
- Holidays
