Principal High Power Microwave Engineer- Directed Energy
Posted on: 6 Feb 2021
Tucson, AZ
Job Description
The Raytheon Missiles and Defense (RMD), Electrical Product Team is looking for Electrical Engineers responsible for developing, integrating, and demonstrating research based and proof of concept designs.
The successful candidate will develop technical solutions to difficult problems related to the design, integration and test of electrical subsystems to be integrated into directed energy products. The candidate will work under limited supervision while determining and developing independent solutions to meet overall design objectives. This position requires frequent interaction and coordination with mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, scientists, external customers, and a wide variety of support staff. Using a variety of software tools and electrical test equipment, the candidate will be responsible for stages of electrical design that span the full range of the design process. The candidate will be expected to generate concepts, develop designs, test prototypes, and integrate subsystems into larger directed energy systems.
U.S. Citizenship status is required as this position requires an active U.S. Security Clearance as of day one of employment.
Location: Tucson, AZ. Some travel may be required.
Required Skills:
* Experience in design for an execution of pulsed power and power electronics systems testing.
* Experience working with high voltage (300-kV to 1-MV).
* Minimum 8 years of engineering experience
* Design, development, test, or operation of a wide variety of pulsed power and RF systems.
* Experience with circuit analysis, high power RF testing, and system integration.
Desired Skills:
* Specific experience in high power microwave systems.
* Experience related to Electromagnetic Interference (EMI)/Radio Frequency Interference (RFI)
* Experience in modeling, simulation, and analysis of electromagnetics and electrical circuits
* Experience with any of the following tools: Mentor Graphics Designer, PSPICE, System Vision, MATLAB, Mathcad, IDL, Computer Simulation Technologies (CST), Microwave Design Studio, High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS), 3D particle-in-cell codes like ICEPIC, and Advanced Design System (ADS).
* Knowledge of printed circuit board fabrication and circuit card assembly processes and related industry specifications
* Experience with test equipment, test automation scripting, test conduction, sensor control
Required Education: M.S in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or Systems Engineering degree or related STEM degree174996
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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IndustryEngineering
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No. of Employees67, 000
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