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Raytheon
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Raytheon
Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Principal Engineer, Systems Engineering - Process & Metrics
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Principal Engineer, Systems Engineering - Process & Metrics
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Description
Date Posted:2026-07-14
Country:
United States of America
Location:
US-AZ-TUCSON-805 ~ 1151 E Hermans Rd ~ BLDG 805
Position Role Type:
Hybrid
U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:
Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
Security Clearance Type:
DoD Clearance: Secret
Security Clearance Status:
Ability to obtain INTERIM U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date
At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world's most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world.
Raytheon brings 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. We deliver solutions that help our nation and allies defend freedom and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.
The Systems Engineering & Test Capabilities (SETC) Process and Metrics Engineer defines, improves, and sustains SETC processes and associated metrics that enable effective program execution, increase organizational visibility, and support continuous improvement. This role partners with the SETC Process Council, Engineering Leaders, program teams, and functional stakeholders to establish practical, scalable processes; develop meaningful leading indicators and performance measures; support metric data collection and analysis; and translate insights into actionable improvement recommendations. The ideal candidate brings a strong understanding of systems engineering and integration and test execution in complex development environments, along with the ability to balance process rigor with operational usefulness and execution efficiency.
What You Will Do
This position can be based out of Tucson AZ., El Segundo, CA., Goleta, CA., Tewkesbury MA., McKinney, TX., Huntsville, AL., Aurora, CO., Atlanta, GA.
- Define, document, deploy, maintain, and continuously improve practical, scalable Systems Engineering & Test Capabilities (SETC) execution processes, workflows, and guidance artifacts.
- Develop, document, and sustain meaningful metrics and leading indicators, including intent, operational definitions, calculation methods, data sources, business rules, reporting cadence, and usage guidance.
- Partner with engineering leaders, program teams, quality, and functional stakeholders to identify process and measurement needs aligned with organizational objectives and effective program execution.
- Support development, implementation and sustainment of manual, tool-enabled, and automated data collection methods to improve metric quality, repeatability, efficiency, and reporting consistency.
- Analyze SETC execution data to identify trends, risks, performance gaps, and improvement opportunities, and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
- Architect dashboards, scorecards, summaries, and leadership briefings that provide clear, actionable insight into execution performance.
- Facilitate stakeholder working sessions to align on process expectations, metric definitions, thresholds, reporting approaches, and interpretation of results.
- Support process and metric governance by ensuring definitions are clear, auditable, and scalable, and by contributing to change control, reporting consistency, and continuous improvement across the organization.
What You Will Learn
- Knowledge of engineering lifecycle execution and how disciplined processes support cost, schedule, technical, and quality outcomes.
- Ability to develop meaningful execution metrics that are practical to collect and aligned with leadership objectives.
- Ability to translate ambiguous problems into clear process, data, and decision frameworks.
- Ability to build stakeholder alignment across engineering disciplines, program teams, and functional organizations.
Qualifications You Must Have
- A Bachelor's Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum of 8 years prior relevant experience.
- Experience as a Systems Engineering (SE) in a program environment.
- Experience defining, documenting, implementing, or improving engineering processes within a development environment.
- Experience developing metrics, including one or more of the following: metric intent, operational definitions, data sources, business rules, calculation methods, and reporting approaches.
- Experience collecting, validating, analyzing, and interpreting performance data to support leadership insight, decision-making, and continuous improvement.
Qualifications We Prefer
- Experience supporting engineering process governance, command media development, or business process harmonization efforts.
- Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate effectively across engineering, program, and functional stakeholders.
- Experience developing or supporting dashboards, scorecards, and leadership reporting products.
- Familiarity with developing and applying leading and lagging indicators in engineering environments.
- Experience with data analysis, visualization, or business intelligence tools.
- Familiarity with lifecycle development processes and cross-functional engineering execution within complex product development organizations.
- Active Secret Clearance
What We Offer
Our values drive our actions, behaviors and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration and Innovation.
Clearance information: This position requires security clearance. DCSA Consolidated Adjudication Services (DCSA CAS), an agency of the Department of Defense, handles and adjudicates the security clearance process. More information about Security Clearances can be found on the US Department of State government website here: https://www.state.gov/m/ds/clearances/c10978.htm
As part of our commitment to maintaining a secure hiring process, candidates may be asked to attend select steps of the interview process in-person at one of our office locations, regardless of whether the role is designated as on-site, hybrid or remote.
The salary range for this role is 107,500 USD - 204,500 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate's work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.
Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, 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, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.
Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company's performance.
This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.
RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.
RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act.
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Job ID: 85163476

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