Raytheon

The Paradigm

Have you ever asked yourself, “WHY TEST?” In other words, what testing SHOULD be done and what testing SHOULD NOT be done? WHEN and WHERE is testing appropriate, and how MUCH testing is enough? HOW can testing be made more affordable?

The Test Systems Engineering (TSE) Department is seeking a strong Principal Systems Engineer with the critical skills and aptitude to drive solutions to complex questions like the ones above.

Organizational Overview

The TSE Department provides Test Strategy and Architecture (TS&A) solutions to effectively develop, manufacture, and deliver prime item hardware IAW contract requirements. This is accomplished by driving a Systems Engineering approach across all test activities throughout the product life cycle, ensuring product performance, producibility, and warfighter satisfaction.

The Mission of TSE is to make “TEST” more applicable during the design and development process, more strategic and less reactive throughout all phases, and more affordable, agile, and robust. One way we ensure these results is by deploying [Systems] Test Architects (TA’s) at Program start-up. The TA resides in the Office of the Chief Engineer and becomes the “voice of test” for the Program.

Job Description:

As a senior engineering leader and member of the TSE team, the Test Architect (TA) is accountable for architecting a technically sound, systems approach for the Test and Evaluation (T&E) strategy over the entire lifecycle of the product, while at the same time, influencing the prime item architecture to support that strategy. The qualified candidate must be a systems thinker – able to see the “big picture” – and have the in-depth knowledge of development, production, User Operations, and embedded test processes and practices. The experienced TA must know how prime hardware should be tested at every level (from component to All-Up-Round) to ensure robustness and efficiency.

The successful candidate must demonstrate applied experience and working knowledge of developmental test processes, test set-ups and integration, test equipment design with transition to the factory, and/or verification/validation of product hardware using proven test systems, methodologies and techniques. The successful candidate must demonstrate experience with Composable Systems philosophies and common architectures. Additionally, candidates must demonstrate the ability to identify and understand technology risks and system design concepts that support incremental technical maturity / risk mitigation assessments. The understanding of Technology Readiness Levels (TRL’s) and Manufacturing Readiness Levels (MRL’s) is a must. The successful candidate will efficiently and effectively utilize their knowledge of models, simulations, test beds, prototypes, hardware integration, hardware manufacturing, warfighter (User) methodologies, embedded test protocols, and full-scale Engineering Development Models (EDM’s) to ensure comprehensive lifecycle testing that is both robust and affordable. Additional experience and expertise in the following areas will be viewed as a plus:

Broad Customer Interaction:

• In addition to DoD contract work, the candidate is capable of identifying and defining “specialized” requirements as necessary for internal capital investment projects, IRAD projects, and other unique cases such as government labs and test ranges.

Customer Affordability:

• Focus on affordability to drive well-defined test requirements and realistic parametric test limits to produce cost-effective measurement techniques.
• Demonstrated ability to drive improvements in product affordability through increased built-in-test capabilities and decreased lifecycle needs.

Leadership and Business Acumen:

• In addition to having a strong technical competency in test & evaluation, the TA will have proven leadership capabilities demonstrated at the Integrated Product Team Leader level for a major development acquisition program.
• Candidate has the ability to make a business case and the value proposition for technical decisions being considered.
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U.S. Citizenship status is required as this position needs an active U.S. Security Clearance as of day one of employment.

Required Education, Skills, and Experience:

• US Citizenship Required
• Requires a Bachelor’s Degree (BS) in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of eight (8) years’ prior relevant experience.
• Eight (8) or more years’ experience in the areas of Systems Engineering, Systems Test, Test Requirements Development and Planning, or Integration, Verification, and Validation for test.
• Five (5) or more years’ experience in a technical leadership or program management role to include managing schedule and resources to meet assigned milestones
• Five (5) or more years’ experience with systems engineering approach for all test-related activities throughout the product lifecycle
• Five (5) or more years’ experience working with test methodologies for EO / IR and RF systems.
• Five (5) or more years’ experience with Systems Engineering standard views such as Block Definition Diagrams, Context Diagrams, Use Cases, Sequence Diagrams, Flow Diagrams, etc.

Desired Education, Skills, and Experience:

• Master’s Degree (MS) or Ph.D. in one of the aforementioned disciplines is preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong presentation skills, with experience briefing senior leadership.
• Experience in developing Integrated Test and Evaluation Plans.
• Understanding of the DoD 5000.02 process, with focus on T&E aspects.
• Experience using Model Based Engineering (MBE) processes, tools, and techniques, with Rhapsody and IBM Rational Manager preferred.
• Past experience with embedded test techniques, design for test, design margin analysis, and/or design for manufacturing.
• Experience with Agile processes and techniques.
• Experience with development, environmental qualification, production, depot repair, and/or manufacturing operations testing.
• Past work experience on proposal teams through proposal completion, including Bid/No Bid decisions.
• Experience with DSI eXpress, Unified Modeling Language (UML), and/or Systems Modeling Language (SysML).
• Technical leadership with new business capture/pursuit experience including contribution to or authoring of white papers, RFI responses, proposal technical volumes or related experience.
• Willing and able to guide, mentor, and manage junior engineers in areas of technical domain expertise.
• Strong business acumen. Ideal candidate has the ability to make a business case and the value proposition for technical decisions being considered.
• Understanding of the role of the DoD Key Leadership Position, the Chief Developmental Tester (CDT), and the expected interactions with the CDT.

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Raytheon is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.