Systems Engineer
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- Are you currently an employee of Raytheon Missiles & Defense, Raytheon Intelligence & Space, or Raytheon Technologies Corporate Offices?
- Did you previously work for Raytheon Technologies (including its predecessors or any of its businesses) in any capacity?
- Are you subject to any legal or regulatory employment restrictions, such as a non-compete agreement?
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- Are you related to any of the following: • Executive Officers of Raytheon Technologies, who are Gregory J. Hayes, Neil G. Mitchill, Jr, Frank R. Jimenez, Dantaya Williams, Michael R. Dumais, Roy Azevedo, Christopher T. Calio, Wesley D. Kremer, Stephen Timm, Amy L. Johnson, Kevin G. DaSilva; or • Directors of the Raytheon Technologies Board of Directors, who are Gregory J. Hayes, Bernard A. Harris, Jr., Marshall O. Larsen, Robert K. Ortberg, Margaret L. O’Sullivan, Denise L. Ramos, Fredric G. Reynolds, Brian C. Rogers, Tracy A. Atkinson, George R. Oliver, Dinesh C. Paliwal, Ellen M. Pawlikowski, James A. Winnefeld, Jr., Robert O. Work. “Related to” is defined as: spouse, parent, stepparent, grandparent, child (including through adoptive relationships), stepchild, brother, sister, grandchild, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, or any person (other than a tenant or employee) who shares your household.
About this role
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Date Posted:
2026-09-22

 Country:
United Kingdom

 Location:
Winnersh, Wokingham

 Position Role Type:
Hybrid
Systems Engineer
Permanent
Benefits:
- £: Competitive salary
- Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
- 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension
- 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
- Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
- Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
- Enhanced sick pay
- Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave
Work Culture
- 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
- Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
- Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
- Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.
- Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team.
About us
At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.
As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers.
With circa 2000 employees and major facilities operating throughout the UK including Broughton (Wales), Livingston and Glenrothes (Scotland), and Harlow, Gloucester, and Manchester (England); we are committed to investing in British careers and technology development.
Through advanced technology and our people’s expertise, our Training Transformation Services is modernising what’s possible in the training and preparation of our armed forces. With a real blended approach to learning and using the latest innovative systems and technology, we ensure our service men and women really are prepared for any situation.
Role & Responsibilities
Raytheon UK seeks an experienced Systems Engineer, with experience of product development from requirements to acceptance. This role is ideally suited to an engineer with experience in the defence industry, ideally within training development.
The Systems Engineer will have to be sufficiently flexible to perform in different contexts. Some tasking may be primarily internal, working within a matrix team to develop procurement strategies and to mature requirements for training devices which they will then assist in taking through a procurement cycle.
Other tasking may be centred on managing, for Raytheon, the activities of a sub-contractor undertaking detailed design and build of a training device. The successful applicant will support the required capability.
Responsibilities
- Working with the Solution Architect to define work packages and technical requirements.
- Individually contribute to the execution and delivery of key work packages.
- Undertaking activities associated with product specification and qualification.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to assist in the procurement and implementation of advanced training devices; the wider team includes specialists in requirements, test and acceptance, system architecture and supportability.
- Contributes to problem resolution at a team level.
- Contributes to and helps improve planned system operation.
- Create and maintain documentation for system configurations, processes and procedures
- Be ‘Responsible for championing and fostering a culture of Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) compliance and continuous improvement’.
- Any other duties required to meet the needs of the programme.
Required experienc e
- A relevant degree or equivalent training.
- Strong experience in systems engineering, ideally on all elements of the V-model.
- Experience with systems engineering technical standards, principles, theories, concepts and techniques.
- Experience writing scopes of work and acceptance criteria.
- Knowledge of the development of Systems of Systems.
- Ability to work in a collaborative, multi-discipline environment to solve problems.
- Hands-on experience with configuration management tools
- Has, or is able to obtain, security clearance.
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.
- Valid driving licence.
Desirable experience
- Experience with Atlassian suite, working with Jira and Confluence
- Experience of working in an Agile/SCRUM/DevOps delivery model.
- Awareness of NAFv4 and/or TOGAF.
- Experience of training devices.
RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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