Senior Test Equipment Design Engineer - Senior Electrical Engineer II

Innovative technologies. Superior solutions. Outstanding opportunities. Raytheon Company, with 2007 sales of $21.3 billion, is a technology leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning more than 85 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a broad range of mission support services. With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 72,000 people worldwide. Integrated Defense Systems ( IDS ) is Raytheon's leader in Joint Battlespace Integration providing affordable, integrated solutions to a broad international and domestic customer base, including the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, the U.S. Armed Forces and the Department of Homeland Security. Headquartered in Tewksbury, MA, IDS employs more than 13,500 people worldwide and generated $4.7 billion in 2007 sales. Bring your talent and skills to the following IDS team: SVTAD: The Systems Validation, Test and Analysis Directorate (SVTAD) is the central focus for integration, test and validation activities within IDS . More than 1000 employees of SVTAD provide the expertise to ensure customer success through the development and execution of innovative and comprehensive test, verification, and validation strategies, processes, tools and techniques. SVTAD employees are involved in all aspects of test including: design-for-test, integration, subsystem and component level testing through sell-off of IDS ' most sophisticated systems and technologies. Senior Test Equipment Design Engineer - Senior Electrical Engineer II Primary Duties/Responsibilities: Opportunities currently exist within SVTAD's Test Development Department, in the RADAR Test Development Section. The primary responsibilities will be Hardware and / or Software Test Program Set Generation on Commercial testers. Synthetic instrumentation has emerged as the solution of choice for many, and Raytheon is an industry leader in high-speed and high-performance RF and microwave test systems based on this approach. The primary responsibilities will be generation of RADAR test equipment. In this position you will draw upon your test equipment hardware development experience and test system software experience. This is an excellent position for a test equipment engineer who has RADAR test experience on high speed commercial testers or in digital test, analog test, RF test or power supply test and a desire to apply your skills to both hardware and software disciplines. You will be joining a diverse project team for the design and development of test equipment and test solutions for testing radar, sonar, communication, missile, combat control systems, subsystems and components for various programs within IDS . These products can contain Analog, RF, Microwave, Acoustic, High Power, and Digital Electronic technology and can also have Software (embedded, firmware, Signal Processing, VHDL, etc.). Test Development Engineers are involved from the beginning of product design as a concurrent engineering effort, continuing into supporting engineering design verification testing, production test and final system level verification and sell-off; includes in-plant or field testing. Typical test solutions include simulation, stimulation and data acquisition capability to provide stimulus and response test environments for verifying functional performance. Typical test systems encompass Hardware In the Loop Stimulators, Custom Automatic Test Equipment, Commercial Automatic Test Equipment, High Power, Mixed-Signal, Digital and Environmental Stress Screening systems, mechanical holding fixtures, adapters, and interface cabling and harnessing. Basic Qualifications: - B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Electronic Engineering Technology. - 1+ years Experience programming in C - 5+ years Experience in Digital Test Development, using commercial test equipment Desired Qualifications: * Digital, and/or Analog, and/or RF, and/or power supply test hardware design experience * Use of Commercial Test and Measurement Equipment * VXI/VME/MXI/PXI/CompactPCI Application Development * CMMI and 6 Sigma Experience * Strong interpersonal and communication skills, and leadership skills * Good decision-making and problem-solving skills * Experience with VHDL a plus * Software applications / programming skills a plus Raytheon is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, or Vietnam era, or other eligible veteran status, or any other protected factor. 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