Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer – Application Services for a next‑generation satellite Command & Control (C2) system within Raytheon’s RTX Business. This role supports the Mission Engineering and Platform & Security Integration (PSI) Agile Release Train, delivering reusable application capabilities that enhance consistency, reliability, observability, and developer productivity across mission‑critical services. What You Will Do Lead systems engineering activities for Application Services capabilities from concept through verification. Define functional behavior, interfaces, operational scenarios, acceptance criteria, and verification strategies for reusable application capabilities. Design common observability capabilities supporting application instrumentation, metrics, logging, tracing, health monitoring, alerting, and mission‑relevant operational awareness across critical services. Define standardized instrumentation approaches that enable application teams to expose service health, mission flow, and mission outcome information consistently. Develop verification strategies that validate application capabilities through automated unit, feature, integration, and end‑to‑end testing. Collaborate with software developers to design and contribute automated test scenarios using modern testing frameworks such as Playwright. Develop reusable engineering artifacts, design patterns, shared services, and reference implementations that improve consistency and reduce duplication across application teams. Maintain a systems‑level perspective to ensure engineering solutions support mission objectives, operational needs, and long‑term maintainability. Participate in technical exchanges and collaborate with customers, industry partners, and cross‑functional engineering teams to align requirements and technical solutions. Partner with Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Cyber Engineering, and application development teams to ensure common capabilities integrate effectively into CI/CD pipelines, operational environments, and DevSecOps workflows. Participate in capability elaboration, technical reviews, demonstrations, integration events, and Program Increment Planning. Work within a closed‑area laboratory in Aurora, Colorado. Qualifications – You Must Have Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5years of relevant experience. Experience performing systems engineering on software‑intensive systems. Experience defining system behavior, interfaces, verification approaches, and acceptance criteria. Experience collaborating directly with software development teams in Agile development environments. Active and transferable U.S. government‑issued TS/SCI security clearance required prior to start. U.S. citizenship required. Qualifications – We Prefer Experience with software testing principles, including unit, feature, integration, and system‑level verification. Experience with application instrumentation, observability concepts, and defining mission‑relevant operational measures. Experience developing automated test scenarios using frameworks such as Playwright or equivalent UI/API automation tools. Experience designing observability solutions for distributed software systems. Experience with observability technologies such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent technologies. Experience with distributed systems, microservices, Kubernetes, or platform‑based application architectures. Experience with Model‑Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methodologies. Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices. Experience developing scripts and automation to support testing, application instrumentation, observability, or Infrastructure as Code workflows. Experience incorporating AI technologies to support anomaly detection, intelligent alerting, predictive analytics, root cause analysis, and log intelligence. Experience developing reusable software frameworks, shared services, or common engineering capabilities supporting multiple product teams. Experience working with customers, operators, or external stakeholders to translate operational needs into engineering solutions. What We Offer Competitive salary range: $86,800 – $165,200 USD. Relocation eligibility Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short‑term and long‑term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, holidays. Annual incentive compensation eligibility based on level and business unit. Work‑life balance opportunities and flexible work schedules where applicable. Location Aurora, CO Equal Opportunity Employment 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr