Principal Systems Engineer Digital Radar📣 Job Ad

About Raytheon and the Principal Systems Engineer Role

Raytheon, a business of RTX, the world’s largest aerospace and defense company, is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer, Digital Radar Onsite. This full-time position is based in Al Qatif and requires 5-10 years of experience. The role supports the Surface Radars and Sensors (SR&S) Center, focusing on digital radar test activities and radar performance analysis.

Role Overview

As a Principal Systems Engineer, you will take on engineering responsibilities such as planning and executing radar test events, conducting in-depth radar data analyses, and developing and implementing verification strategies for advanced radar capabilities and software builds across HWIL, SIL, and field environments. You will leverage radar-domain expertise to analyze system behavior, evaluate algorithm and software performance, and diagnose the root causes of anomalies.

Key Responsibilities

• Generate, run, and interpret modeling and simulation scenarios to predict radar performance, validate algorithm updates, and compare modeled results to Flight Test truth data and measured radar outputs.
• Support real-time and near-real-time field analysis during test events by providing reach-back to development teams, interpreting data products onsite, validating sensor behavior, and advising mission leadership on radar system status and performance.
• Collaborate with group leads, cross-discipline engineers, program leadership, and government stakeholders to define analysis objectives, prioritize data sets, and communicate findings.
• Produce technically rigorous analysis reports, performance assessments, test-event summaries, and presentation materials suitable for internal reviews as well as external customer briefings.
• Contribute to technical reviews such as peer reviews, gate reviews, verification events, and test readiness reviews, ensuring analytical rigor and alignment with program objectives.
• Support engineering activities, including systems validation, algorithm performance assessment, data analysis methodology development, and test-event reconstruction for complex digital radar systems.
• Actively participate in planning for Ground Test and Flight Test events by defining data-collection requirements, identifying key performance measures, preparing analysis tools, and coordinating readiness with integration and test teams.
• Ensure that test and evaluation activities, including data capture, software/hardware configuration tracking, and validation procedures, are conducted in accordance with established engineering processes, quality standards, and government test requirements.

Collaboration and Technical Engagement

Your tasks will include creating test objectives, specifying data collection requirements, analyzing mission and sensor data to evaluate performance in detection, tracking, discrimination, and engagement, and sharing results with multidisciplinary engineering teams. You will collaborate with systems, software, and algorithm engineers while also working independently to support requirements validation, technical reviews, and readiness for Flight Test events.

Experience and Travel Requirements

This position requires 5-10 years of experience in a relevant field. Occasional travel to Raytheon and government sites may be required to assist with integration efforts, test events, and technical discussions. Domestic travel is expected, approximately 15-25%.

About Raytheon

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. The company delivers solutions that help nations and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression, contributing to a safer, more secure world.