Principal System Security Engineer (Cybersecurity) - P4

Join Raytheon’s Systems Security Engineering (SSE) team and help build holistic security solutions that protect embedded weapons systems. This onsite role in Tewksbury, MA supports cybersecurity activities, NIST RMF compliance, and program protection implementation. You’ll work alongside multidisciplinary engineering teams while serving as a technical interface for security matters across customers, program leadership, and stakeholders.

What you’ll do

• Coordinate cybersecurity activities across multidisciplinary engineering teams and act as the technical interface for cybersecurity topics with customers, program leadership, subcontractors, and other stakeholders.
• Create plans and estimates, execute tasks, track project progress, report status, and develop risk identification and mitigation plans.
• Ensure compliance with NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) controls.
• Consult and support program management with SSE architecture and related issues.
• Support the development of bids and proposals.
• Define security development and testing efforts for implementation of security controls across networking devices, databases, operating systems, and hardware and software components.
• Integrate cybersecurity development activities and develop top-level system requirements, including flow-down to subsystem requirements and implementation concepts.
• Apply understanding and compliance with DoD technology release and export licensing policies.

Basic qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and 8 years of relevant experience.
• Active and transferable U.S. government issued Secret security clearance required prior to the start date; U.S. citizenship is required because only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
• Experience in System Security Engineering, computer technology reverse engineering, anti-tamper, cybersecurity, or embedded security.
• Experience with NIST RMF.
• Technical leadership experience.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience implementing SSE solutions across the full lifecycle.
• Experience delivering solutions that meet robust SSE system security requirements.
• Cyber certifications aligned with DoDD 8570/DoDD 8140 such as CISSP, GSLC, or CEH.
• Subcontractor management experience with SSE.
• Broad technology understanding and working knowledge of DODI-S-5230.28.
• Strategic planning experience and contributions to U.S. Government contract proposals as an Information Assurance Engineer subject matter expert.
• Exceptional ingenuity, creativity, and resourcefulness.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate with coworkers, suppliers, stakeholders, and customers.
• Experience contributing to a team environment focused on creative solutions to technical problems, including IA controls and maintaining certification and accreditation documentation.

Benefits

• Relocation Eligible with relocation assistance available.
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• 401(k) match.
• Flexible spending accounts and flexible work schedules.
• Employee assistance program.
• Employee Scholar Program.
• Parental leave.
• Paid time off and holidays.

Role details

• Location: Tewksbury, MA (onsite)
• Compensation: USD 107,500 - 204,500 per year
• Position role type: Onsite
• Security clearance: Secret (active and existing required on day 1)

Values: Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.