Date Posted: 2024-08-23
Country: United Kingdom
Location: GBR01:Harlow, Essex, Kao One, Kao Park, Harlow, CM17 9NA
Position Role Type: Unspecified
Job Title
Principal Systems Engineer
Location: Harlow
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Fulltime 37 hrs
Job Description
About us
At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.
Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do.
Our business
As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace.
Our Weapons business works ethically, to provide complex weapons systems to customers. We equip the Royal Air Force with capabilities such as AMRAAM and Paveway IV precision guided munitions and the Royal Navy with our Phalanx close-in missile defence system.
Summary of Role:
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and high performing Principal Systems Engineer to work within the Raytheon Assured Position Navigation and Timing (APNT) Engineering team, part of the wider Systems & Products business unit, to produce Digital GPS Anti-Jam Systems and Alternative Navigation Solutions for the military market.
The role will provide Design Authority expertise across Raytheon’s range of APNT products, providing technical direction across the product lifecycle, from requirements capture, analysis, design through testing, qualification and certification activities, release to volume production and ongoing product sustainability.
Main Duties:
* Report directly to the Senior Project Engineering Manager APNT, providing Technical Leadership and Direction for the Engineering team.
* Support Business Development and Capture team regarding customer support and technical/product strategy discussions.
* Lead the technical input for Bids and Proposals and Production of Engineering Estimates.
* Work closely with Customers and the System Engineering Team to develop and shape the technical requirements design.
* Collaborate with the design team, industry experts, and suppliers to solve complex technical problems on new and existing GPS Anti-Jam Products.
* Responsible for all technical design reviews and qualification, verification, validation, and certification of our designs.
* Support and mentor junior engineers.
Essential:
* Product development experience at team lead level.
* Good knowledge of high-speed digital design (up to GHz), electro-mechanical and/or thermal product design within harsh environments.
* Understanding of RF concepts and techniques for analogue signals to 2GHz.
* Design of circuits in analogue and digital, with exposure to FPGA or DSP control.
* Experience of interfacing designs into established systems.
* Proven experience in systems engineering principles with regards to product development.
* Experience in Product Qualification for EMC, Environmental requirements.
* Demonstrable problem-solving and analytical skills.
* Able to prioritise and manage tasks and the engineering team activities.
* Experience in interpretation of customer specs and end-use environments.
* Ability to develop hardware concepts efficiently from limited or vague customer requirements.
* Experience with generation of technical documentation at all levels.
* Good communication skills and ability to communicate with multiple stakeholders.
* Excellent stakeholder management and customer interfacing skills.
* Willingness to travel throughout the UK, Europe and the US.
* Degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics) or similar industry certification.
* Eligible or current holder of SC security clearance.
Desirable:
* Design Authority experience for System Product development.
* Experience with interfacing to RF circuitry and high-speed D/A/A/D conversion.
* Experience in schematic and PCB layout tools.
* Knowledge of Firmware development, design and test using suitable toolsets.
* Product Quality Testing and Certification experience.
* Experience of working with industry standard toolsets for requirement capture, design and task management.
* Knowledge of GNSS systems and receiver characteristics.
* Experience with SysML or UML in a Systems Engineering environment.
* Experience with configuration management systems.
* Understands the principles of 6 Sigma and Lean Manufacturing.
Benefits:
* Competitive salaries.
* 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days.
* Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution).
* Company bonus scheme (discretionary).
* 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension.
* Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes.
* Enhanced sick pay.
* Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave.
* Car / Car allowance (dependant on grade/role).
* Private Medical Insurance (dependant on grade).
Work Culture:
* 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role.
* Early 1.30pm finish Friday.
* Remote, hybrid and site-based working opportunities.
* A flexible working culture that is output-focused.
* Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.
RTX
Raytheon UK is part of the wider RTX organisation. Supporting over 35,000 jobs across 13 UK sites, RTX is helping to drive prosperity.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
At Raytheon UK, we are committed to fostering a workplace that champions diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) as fundamental pillars of our organisational culture.
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