Raytheon

Electronic Test Technician

Posted on: 1 Feb 2021

Mckinney, TX

Job Description

Active U.S. DoD Secret Security Clearance required

Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RI&S) is looking to staff an Electronic Test Technician position located in McKinney, TX.

The effective candidate will perform a wide variety of technical tasks in support of processes, engineering, quality control, calibration, laboratories, production/test environment, line maintenance, and/or chemical handling.

Job responsibilities include, but not limited to the following:

* Tests, troubleshoots, repairs, maintains and installs a variety of electronic, electromechanical, and mechanical, computer, laboratory and scientific systems and/or equipment.
* May assist in the development of procedures.
* Selects, sets up and operates engineering and scientific test equipment for test and integration and other production support of digital and analog circuitry, radio frequency modules, and circuit card assemblies
* Observes, analyzes and reports test data; and when appropriate makes necessary repairs to equipment
* Utilizes various engineering and scientific drawings, manuals and other related documentation in the performance of their tasks.
* Work with both program-unique and commercial test equipment for digital, analog and radio frequency testing.
* Checks for correctness of work.
* Candidate must be able to clearly communicate their activities to team members, supervision, and program management.

U.S. Citizenship required as the candidate must have an Active U.S. DoD Secret Security Clearance day one of employment.

Required Skills

* Minimum 6 years experience in electronics industry or equivalent military electronics experience
* Extensive knowledge of radio frequency/microwave test methodology and measurement error reduction techniques.
* Familiar with radio frequency /microwave measurement techniques using spectrum analyzers, scalar/vector network analyzers, power meters, signal generators, etc.
* Familiar with digital and analog test equipment, such as logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, etc.
* Ability to lift up to 25lbs
* Ability to work literally from approved procedures, schematics, and verbal instructions
* Ability to troubleshoot electronic circuits to component level and effectively identify failure trends
* Ability to isolate problems between the test environment (test station, interface adapter, test cables, etc.) and the units under test and resolve as necessary
* Select appropriate test equipment and configure it based on test specification
* Ability to communicate technical issues by generating comprehensive failure entries which correlate failure modes back to the associated test specifications
* Ability to interpret test data (plots, graphs, tabulated parameters, etc.) to choose pass/fail condition and resolve when further analysis is needed
* Ability to operate temperature cycling ovens, burn-in equipment, leak check equipment
* Ability to plan and maintain test schedules in a teaming environment simultaneously for multiple projects.
* Ability to work in an enthusiastic manufacturing/production test/environmental test environment.
* Ability to work autonomously and guide priorities on multiple tasks
* Experienced in the use of computers and software applications (both desktop and technical)
* Must be versed in computer architectures and data protocols in order to facilitate networking/interfacing with other test equipment
* Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.

Desired Skills

* Direct experience with Radar System and subsystem (Transmitter, Receiver, Antenna, Signal/Data Processor, Power Supply, etc.) test and evaluation
* Previous Production, testing, troubleshooting and depot experience
* Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) programming experience
* Analog test and Digital Signal Processor experience
* Basic programming skills

Required Education

* Associates Degree in Electronic Engineering Technology or equivalent, and/or Military Electronics training

Desired Education

* Bachelors Degree in Electronics or Radio Frequency Engineering

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Raytheon

Waltham, MA

Raytheon Company develops integrated products, services, and solutions for the defense and other government markets worldwide. It operates through five segments: Integrated Defense Systems (IDS); Intelligence, Information and Services (IIS); Missile Systems (MS); Space and Airborne Systems (SAS); and Forcepoint. The IDS segment offers integrated air and missile defense; land-and sea-based radar solutions; command, control, communications, computers, cyber, and intelligence solutions; naval combat and ship electronic and sensing systems; and undersea sensing and effects solutions.

The IIS segment provides technical and professional services, such as navigation, DoD space and weather solutions, cybersecurity, analytics, training, logistics, mission support, software-based systems, automation and sustainment solutions, and air traffic management systems, as well as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions. The MS segment develops and supports weapon systems comprising missiles, smart munitions, close-in weapon systems, projectiles, kinetic kill vehicles, directed energy effectors, and combat sensor solutions.

The SAS segment provides civil and military electro-optical/infrared sensors; airborne radars for surveillance and fire control applications; lasers; precision guidance systems; signals intelligence systems; processors; electronic warfare systems; tactical and strategic communications; and space-qualified systems. The Forcepoint segment offers cyber security products that include risk adaptive data loss prevention; user and entity behavior analytics and cloud access security broker capabilities; insider threat solutions; firewall technology; cloud and on premise Web and email security; and cross domain transfer products.

Raytheon Company has a strategic agreement with AirMap to collaborate on future projects to safely integrate drones into the national airspace system. The company was founded in 1922 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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