Senior Hardware Design Production Support Engineer

Raytheon Technologies - Tewksbury, MA

Full-time - Mid Level

Tewksbury, MA

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

At Raytheon, we are committed to helping our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. Our Receiver, Exciter, and Back-End Processing (REBEP) Department plays a crucial role in this mission, focusing on receiver, exciter, beam steering, and signal processing technology. This position is for a Senior Hardware Design Production Support Engineer, who will be instrumental in solving design and manufacturing problems while providing innovative solutions in Radar and Receiver Exciter assembly, integration, testing, and transition to production. The engineer will act as a liaison between design engineers and the factory, collaborating with Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, and other Engineering disciplines to resolve production issues and ensure a smooth transition to production for Radar Receiver Exciter products. In this role, you will be responsible for troubleshooting hardware and test station issues down to the circuit card assembly (CCA) and component levels. You will engage in failure analysis, root cause determination, and corrective action implementation. Your expertise in analog and digital circuit analysis will be essential for characterizing, modeling, and simulating electrical signals in electronic subsystems. Additionally, you will lead the transition to production of new Receiver Exciter products and partner in the development of test equipment, establishing test requirements and procedures. This position is 100% on-site in Tewksbury, MA, with anticipated travel to multiple sites, including Andover and Woburn, MA.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot hardware, test station, and process issues down to CCA and component levels.
• Resolve design issues on RTX production lines and suppliers.
• Conduct failure analysis and root cause determination, implementing corrective actions.
• Perform analog and digital circuit analysis, including characterization, modeling, and simulation of electrical signals in electronics subsystems.
• Identify and implement circuit card and subassembly design updates.
• Lead the transition to production of new Receiver Exciter products.
• Partner in the development of test equipment and establish test requirements and procedures.

Requirements

• Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior work experience OR an Advanced degree and minimum 3 years of prior work experience.
• A minimum of three (3) years of Engineering experience with RF, analog, digital, and/or mixed signal circuit design or analysis and/or digital signal processing.
• Experience in Root-Cause Corrective Action investigations.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with testing and troubleshooting RF and Microwave components/subsystems such as up-converters, down converters, power amplifiers, waveform generators, RF modulators, and limiters.
• Leadership of small technical teams, including technical oversight and direction, cost estimation, earned value tracking & reporting, coordination, and preparation of detailed technical team reports.
• Experience with subsystems integration and test.
• Experience with test equipment and test automation.
• Experience in applying Statistical Process Control (SPC) methods in achieving production yield improvements.
• Experience in resolving production issues with suppliers and sub-tier suppliers.
• Technical writing and formal presentation experience.
• Communications skills to interface with Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, and other Engineering disciplines.
• Experience with tools such as Mentor Graphics Designer, PSPICE, System Vision, MATLAB, Mathcad, IDL, Computer Simulation Technologies (CST), Microwave Design Studio, High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS), and Advanced Design System (ADS).

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 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
• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position.