Sr Principal Systems Engineer - Guidance System Design & Performance

Provide Senior Engineering leadership and technical direction of missile guidance system design and analysis tasks, including guidance law development, state estimation, trajectory shaping and optimization, system trade studies and system requirements flowdown. Determines and pursues courses of action to achieve organization objectives and required technologies. Viewed within the business segment as expert within the field. Apply and/or develops highly advanced technical technologies, scientific principles, theories and concepts. 10 years applied experience required. Security Clearance: Secret At a minimum, an Interim Secret clearance will be required in order to start work. Additional clearances may also be required from the DoD. The ideal candidate will possess: -Required Skills: Subject matter expert in control system design, linear and non-linear system modeling, and Kalman Filtering associated with flight vehicle design and analysis. Strong data analysis, organizational, communication and leadership skills. Familiarity with Matlab, FORTRAN and/or C/C++. -Desired Skills: Guidance law algorithm design and optimization, trade studies and requirements flowdown and verification. Missile and Target state estimation using Kalman Filtering techniques. Track file management, Data fusion, and Signal processing techniques. Required Education(including Major): -Minimum Degree: B.S. -Majors: Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics - General, Aero & Astro Eng, Electronic Engineering 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. To Apply for this position, please CLICK HERE ©2008 Raytheon Company. All rights reserved. Raytheon is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and welcomes a wide diversity of applicants. U.S. citizenship and security clearance may be required.