Principal Electrical Engineer – Proposal Lead – Radar Proposal Leadership

Job Description

Principal Electrical Engineer – Proposal Lead | RTX

The Tone:
This is an onsite role at RTX, located in Marlborough, MA, with travel to Andover, MA and Tewksbury, MA. RTX is the world’s largest aerospace and defense company, uniting 185,000 minds to solve complex problems and connect and protect our world. Raytheon, with over 100 years of engineering expertise, delivers solutions to help defend freedoms and deter aggression, creating a safer and more secure world. The Receiver/Exciter & Processing Architecture (REPA) Department is the focal point for critical technology, and this role contributes by leading the crafting and defense of engineering bids, supporting the design, development, and integration of Raytheon products.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Location: Onsite USA (Massachusetts)
• Pay: $107500–$204500 yearly
• Team: Receiver/Exciter & Processing Architecture (REPA) Department
• Mission: This person leads the creation, documentation, and defense of engineering bids, ensuring compliance and alignment for receiver, exciter, beam steering, and signal processing technologies.
• Tech Stack: Standard Bidding Tool (SBT), Engineering Project Information Collection (EPIC), PS-07 tool

What You’ll Actually Do
• Bid Creation: Craft strongly researched and well-documented engineering bids, ensuring comprehensive and accurate proposals.
• Cost Estimation & Defense: Write detailed Basis of Estimates (BOEs) based on sound reasoning and defend these bids to management while engaging with hardware leads.
• Proposal Support: Dedicate 50% of your time to supporting both Electrical and REPA Department level proposals.
• Department Initiatives: Contribute 25% of your effort to department-level metrics development and support, and another 25% to technical department initiatives.
• Bid Alignment: Adjust and align bids to meet the specific requirements of various contract types, such as Firm Fixed Price (FFP) and Cost-Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF).

The Must-Haves
• Background: Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience, with a strong background in radars complemented by experience leading costing activities.
• Experience: Leading multi-disciplined teams to meet deadlines for proposal submissions, developing and submitting compliant Basis of Estimates (BOEs) aligned with regulatory requirements, analyzing Statements of Work (SOWs) and Requests for Proposal (RFPs) to define project scope, identifying risks and opportunities from detailed analysis of proposal cost rollups, and delivering presentations of proposal details to management.
• Skills: Strong research and documentation, cost estimation, proposal defense, regulatory compliance understanding, risk analysis, and presentation skills.
• Bonus: Ability to advocate for the department when faced with disorganized proposal leadership, experience working with Mechanical Engineering to develop combined Hardware Packages, experience in an environment requiring multitasking across technical, business, and schedule constraints, experience interfacing with cross-functional disciplines to align bids, experience with Receiver and Exciter hardware development at the radar system level, an academic background including courses in Receiver/Transmitter Design, RF Design, Front-End Transceiver Design Theory, Digital Signal Processing, and Radar Systems, Design Verification and system-level verification testing experience, or an active / existing Secret U.S. Security Clearance.