Senior Systems Engineer

Date Posted:
2026-07-13
Country:
United States of America
Location:
US-CO-AURORA-S75 ~ 16800 E Centretech Pkwy ~ BLDG S75
Position Role Type:
Onsite
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:
TS/SCI without Polygraph
Security Clearance Status:
Active and existing security clearance required on day 1

At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling - to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring 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. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Systems Engineer, supporting one of our premier programs within Raytheon, an RTX Business. In this role, you will help design and deliver common application capabilities supporting a next-generation satellite Command and Control (C2) system within the Mission Engineering and Platform & Security Integration (PSI) Agile Release Train (ART).

As a member of the Application Services team, you will partner with software engineers, architects, and product leadership to define reusable application capabilities that improve consistency, reliability, observability, and developer productivity across the program. Your initial focus will be the design, implementation, and verification of a centralized observability capability supporting mission-critical services. As the Application Services portfolio evolves, you will help define additional reusable engineering capabilities that enhance system performance, operational awareness, and long-term maintainability. This position is contingent upon contract award. The work is on-site in Aurora, CO.

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 mission-critical services.
• Define standardized instrumentation approaches that enable application teams to consistently expose service health, mission flow, and mission outcome information.
• Develop verification strategies that validate application capabilities through automated unit, feature, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Collaborate with software developers to design and, where appropriate, contribute automated test scenarios using modern testing frameworks such as Playwright or equivalent technologies.
• 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 ensure alignment of requirements and technical solutions.
• Partner with Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), 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 (PI) Planning.
• Work within a closed-area laboratory in Aurora, Colorado.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a Bachelor's Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior 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 is required prior to the start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

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 (IaC) 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

• 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.
• Relocation eligible.

Learn More & Apply Now!

Please consider the following role type definition as you apply for this role:

• Onsite: Employees who are working in onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.
• This position requires a 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 U.S. Department of State website here:

• Location: Aurora, CO:

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 86,800 USD - 165,200 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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