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# Principal Systems Engineer- Integration & Test Focal (Onsite)

- **Company:** RTX
- **Location:** Cedar Rapids, IA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $107,500.0 - $204,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Cyber Security, Continuous Integration, Digital Electronics, Systems Development Life Cycle, Scaled Agile Framework, Verification and Validation (Software), Systems Integration, SC Clearance
- **Published:** October 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3468458809&tx=JK2519FFG&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* Experience with the systems development process, including requirements capture, design, integration, and verification/validation
 * Experience working in air-gapped CUI or secure lab environment
 * Active and transferable SECRET clearance is required prior to start date
 * U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
 * Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience

Qualifications We Prefer

 * Familiarity with the Scaled Agile framework
 * Experience with automated software build, test, and deployment
 * Experience with CI/CD Pipeline tools
 * Exceptionally strong communication skills, experience presenting test metrics to program leadership
 * Experienced with generating Integration and Test Plans for Embedded Systems and Digital Hardware
 * Experience with tools such as DOORS, CAMEO or similar
 * Experience working with a certification authority

## Description

The High Assurance Devices Engineering team seeks a Senior Principal Systems Engineer- Integration and Test Lead with a passion for innovation and the drive to see new technology and capability matured into fielded solutions. The Integration and Test lead is a leader who is responsible for ensuring the successful verification and validation for High Assurance Devices across the department. This role will contribute to a team responsible for systems and cyber security engineering tasks related to our next-generation security-enabled mission computing, crypto, and cross-domain technologies, maturing products from low TRL through a program of record accreditation and factory production.

What You Will Do

 * Perform analysis', architecture and design, primarily focusing on the Integration and Testing phases of systems development
 * Perform functional analysis', trade studies, requirements allocation for Integration and Test
 * Perform technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total system solutions
 * Lead Test Readiness Reviews with Customer and Certification Agencies
 * Collaborate with Systems Architects, Product Owners, Chief Engineers, to generate Integration and Test Environments and Plans
 * Lead Verification, Validation, and Qualification efforts in both Unclassified and Classified environments
 * Support multiple programs simultaneously, mentoring junior engineers on Integration, Validation, Verification, and Qualification