Job Title: Principal Mechanical Engineer
Location: El Segundo, CA. Company: Collins Aerospace (Raytheon).
Security Clearance: U.S. citizenship required. Eligible to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance. Security clearance status: Active and existing clearance required after day 1.
Salary Range: $118,300 – $224,900 USD.
What You Will Do
- Lead the mechanical development of GPS RF and digital electronics subsystems from concept through production.
- Serve as the mechanical technical authority (REA) on assigned programs, ensuring alignment to technical, cost, and schedule objectives.
- Own subsystem-level mechanical solutions, ensuring performance in demanding thermal and high‑vibration environments.
- Collaborate cross‑functionally with Electrical, Systems, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain teams to deliver integrated hardware solutions.
- Represent the mechanical discipline in internal and external design reviews and customer engagements.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers across the matrixed team.
- Support hardware integration, verification, and production readiness activities within secure program environments.
Qualifications
- Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience or an advanced degree in a related field and minimum 5 years’ experience.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance.
- Experience designing and developing electronics packaging solutions for high‑reliability GPS receivers or related military applications.
- Experience applying Geometric Dimension Tolerance (GD&T) and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) drawing standards to production hardware.
- Experience with 3D solid modeling tools (Creo/Pro/Engineer or similar) for mechanical design and documentation.