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Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), with 2008 sales of $23.2 billion, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 87 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a broad range of mission support services. With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 73,000 people worldwide.



At Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems (IIS), we transform data into intelligence. As a leading systems and solutions provider of intelligence, security, and advanced information technologies to government customers in the United States and internationally, IIS provides the right knowledge at the right time, enabling our customers to make timely and accurate decisions to achieve mission goals of national significance. IIS employs more then 9,000 people worldwide with major hubs in the Mid Atlantic Region, Aurora, CO, and national Headquarters in Garland, TX, IIS generated $3.1 billion in 2008 sales.



Bring your talent and skills to the IIS team!



Defense and Civil Mission Solutions (DCMS):



Defense and Civil Mission Solutions provides multi-INT ground systems, unmanned systems technology, environmental information management systems and satellite command and control. We are the world leader for unmanned aerial vehicle ground stations. Also, we provide large-scale information processing, information integration and visualization systems for intelligence, satellite and space-based programs for commercial and DoD customers



Job Title: Senior Software Engineer I



Job Description:



The Space and Environmental Mission Systems (SEMS) Raytheon team is responsible for full life cycle engineering on state of the art environmental, commercial, and sensing systems for government and commercial applications. Our projects include National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Earth Observation Systems (EOS), and many other exciting programs. A couple of example programs are described below.

The NPOESS program is the nation's next-generation meteorological satellite system. Raytheon is part of the Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems NPOESS team and is responsible for development of the NPOESS ground segments including satellite command & control and environmental data processing. Raytheon's contribution to the NPOESS program will make possible more accurate and timely global weather and environmental data production. The NPOESS Command, Control, and Communications Segment (C3S) software provides a highly automated and integrated suite of eight subsystems at the new NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Satellite Operations Facility (NSOF), including Mission Planning & Scheduling, Satellite Command & Telemetry, Satellite Memory Management, Orbital Operations, Ground System Automation, Enterprise Management, and Data Monitoring and Recovery. The NPOESS Interface Data Processing Segment (IDPS) ingests raw data from the four NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite sensors and generates more than 25 environmental data products required for vital weather analyses and forecasts to support military operations, civil applications and scientific research. The IDPS software system provides a highly automated and integrated suite of six software subsystems: Infrastructure, Data Management, Ingest, Processing, Data Delivery and Data Quality Monitoring.



The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mission is the follow-on to the very successful Hubble Space Telescope mission. A goal of JWST is to observe the first stars and galaxies of the universe and to answer fundamental questions that have been posed to NASA such as:

What is the shape of the universe?

How do galaxies evolve?

What is dark matter?

How do stars and planetary systems form and interact?

Raytheon is part of the contractor team for JWST and is responsible for development, deployment, and maintenance of the Common Command & Telemetry System (CCTS) to all JWST integration & test users as complete turn-key systems. There are 46 planned systems to be deployed at 18 locations including Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Northrup Grumman Aerospace Systems (NGAS) - prime contractor, US Sensor Labs, European Space Agency (ESA) Sensor Labs, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Sensor Labs

SEMS is seeking a talented software engineer to join our software team. The candidate must have experience and knowledge with software engineering using object oriented methodologies. The candidate will work closely with systems engineers, integrators, testers, and customers to design, develop and support software applications throughout the development and maintenance life cycle.



Key responsibilities for the qualified candidate include:

* Object-oriented C++ and Java programming

* Ability to design, develop, integrate, and maintain new software functionality

* Ability to work with previously written code and make modifications as necessary

* Ability to work as an effective team member including other disciplines (systems, networking, IS, configuration management, and test engineers) to troubleshoot and fix problems

* Enthusiastic and energetic performer able to work in a dynamic, fast paced, and sometimes pressured environment

* Team player incorporating a team based success philosophy

* Contribute to the completion of program and project milestones under the specific guidance of his/her immediate supervisor

* Communication of complex and diverse engineering topics

* Ability to follow established SW processes and procedures, development, documentation and maintenance/management of operations concepts, requirements (system, element, segment level), external and internal interfaces, and other software engineering work products/artifacts



Required Skills:

* Bachelor of Science degree, BS, in a Computer Science, Math, Science or Engineering related field, OR 12 years of relevant software engineering work experience if non-degreed

* Minimum 4-6 years working experience in object-oriented software design and development using C++ and/or Java

* US Citizenship with the ability to obtain an SSBI security clearance.



Desired Skills:

* Minimum of 4 years experience working with Unix OS based development

* Minimum of 4 years experience working with Microsoft Windows OS based development

* Software and system-level debugging experience including the ability to identify problems in established code and make modifications as necessary

* Experience with software execution throughout the entire software life cycle (preliminary design through maintenance phases)

* Work related experience with Purify

* Work related experience with XML

* Work related experience with Perl

* Completed Raytheon 6-sigma certification

* Experience with application development involving RDBMS (such as Oracle, mySQL, etc)

* Experience with UML design modeling in modeling tools such as Rational Rose, RSA, or Rhapsody

* Experience and knowledge related to Satellite Ground Systems and Ground System Operations

* Experience and knowledge related to Satellite Operations

* Experience and knowledge related to software discipline process development and deployment

* Experience with customer interaction and end-user engagement

* Experience integrating software (modules, components, subsystems)

* Experience preparing and presenting status information and technical material

* Familiarity working with other engineering disciplines (systems, hardware, test, configuration management, and quality engineering) and knowledge of how they interact with the software engineering discipline



Required Education (including Major):

Bachelor of Science, BS in a Computer Science, Math, Science or Engineering related field. Relevant software engineering work experience will be considered if non-degreed.



Raytheon is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, or Vietnam era, or other eligible veteran status, or any other protected factor.