Senior Hardware Production Support Engineer

Senior Hardware Production Support Engineer

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's Receiver/Exciter & Processing Architecture (REPA) Department is the focal point for receiver, exciter, beam steering, and signal processing technology within Raytheon. The department is responsible for the design, development, integration, and support to production builds, and lifecycle support of Raytheon products.

This position is for a multi-discipline Senior Hardware Production Support Engineer, capable of solving design and manufacturing problems and providing highly innovative solutions in multiple product assembly, integration, test, statistical process control and transition to production applications. Senior Hardware Production Support Engineers are the liaisons between the design engineers, the factory, and suppliers and are responsible for working with Operations, Supply, Chain, Quality, and other Engineering disciplines to resolve production and transition to production issues.

What You Will Do

• Enhance your electrical engineering skills working with digital, analog and/or RF hardware testing and debugging complex circuit card assemblies.
• Collaborate and coordinate with Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, and other Engineering disciplines to resolve issues that may arise during production, testing, and integration.
• Lead failure analysis / root cause determination and corrective action implementation.
• Perform circuit analysis including characterization, modeling and simulation of electrical signals in electronics subsystems.
• Process Engineering Change Notices and Variances through the Configuration Control Board process.
• Support the transition to production of new products.
• Partnering in the development and troubleshooting of test equipment and establishment of test requirements and procedures.
• This 1st shift role is 100% on-site and will be based in Tewksbury, MA. Frequent travel is to be anticipated between multiple sites including Andover, MA. Infrequent travel to Tucson, AZ will be required, anticipated to be approximately 2 times per year.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum 5 years of prior relevant experience.
• Minimum 3+ years experience in testing / troubleshooting RF, analog, digital, and/or mixed signal circuits.
• The ability to obtain and maintain an Interim Secret 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.

Qualifications We Prefer

• Experience in failure analysis / Root-Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) investigations; Preferably with supplier and factory issues.
• Experience working in a laboratory environment using logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, phase noise analyzer (PNA), spectrum analyzers, real time spectrum analyzers, and performance network analyzers to test and verify the functions of digital and RF signal circuits and subsystems.
• Experience in a production environment.
• Experience in applying Statistical Process Control (SPC) methods in achieving production yield improvements.
• Technical writing and formal presentation experience.
• Active / Existing Secret U.S. Security 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.
• This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.