Systems Engineer II / Scrum Master

• Mission Training Team

Position Details

Date Posted: 2026-01-12

Country: United States of America

Location: HIA32: Cedar Rapids, IA
400 Collins Rd NE, Cedar Rapids, IA, 52498-0505 USA

Role Type: Onsite

Security Clearance: DoD Clearance: Secret

Requirements

• U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

About the Role

"Train Like You Fight, and Fight Like You Train" — When a fighter pilot engages a real threat, the quality of their training can determine whether the mission succeeds or fails. Our pilots need effective, realistic training to prepare for the threats they face today – and those they may have to face tomorrow.

The Air Combat Test & Training (ACTT) Engineering Department specializes in developing state-of-the-art products for cryptographic, datalink, networking, and command and control applications. Focused on U.S. military communication systems, navigation systems, and networks, we guide products from concept phase through accreditation to factory production. This includes design, analysis, test, and certification, integrating them into the Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) Training Environment.

Positioned in the Mission Systems business unit, our role involves addressing challenges such as developing next-generation secure aircraft instrumentation for the next generation, LVC for test and training, and crafting product roadmaps and architectures.

The Mission Training Systems Engineering Team within ACTT is looking for a Systems Engineer II to join our team in a Scrum Master role as we provide technical excellence in a rapidly growing Air Combat Training market for system of systems requirements, design, verification, accreditation, and sustainment efforts. As a platform-level systems team, we have direct customer and end-user interaction and coordination across subsystem teams and stakeholders. Our team culture is highly collaborative and uses a tailored version of the Scaled Agile Framework to meet our program goals.

This role is located onsite in Cedar Rapids, IA.

Responsibilities

• Own the Systems Mission Team Agile cadence and support the Product Owner in Planning Work across agile teams in the department for dependency and risk management
• Help to remove blockers from the team and collaborate on problem solving with program leads and subject matter experts
• Perform system verification and validation, and evaluate alternatives solutions to issue resolution, identifying impacts to cost and risk, for supportability and system impact
• Collect data and perform standard analysis of data, identifying findings as appropriate
• Perform analysis at all levels of the total system product including concept, design, fabrication, modeling, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal
• Perform technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems
• Consider and evaluate alternative accounting for similar metrics
• Follow configuration process, perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, and provide input on trade studies
• Conduct requirement allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications
• Ensure the logical and systematic conversion of product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints

What You Will Learn

• You will gain platform systems level experience on a complex system of systems scale program working with the platform systems engineering team
• You will gain exposure to multiple key technologies with opportunities to develop subject matter expertise in related areas
• You will have opportunities to influence and enrich the department culture as we continuously look to improve

Required Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 2 years of prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field or in absence of a degree, 6 years of relevant experience
• Must have or be capable of obtaining a US Department of Defense (DoD) security clearance
• Candidate selected will be subject to a government security investigation/reinstatement and must meet eligibility requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cryptographic, datalink, networking, and command and control applications
• Experience with communication systems, navigation systems, and networks
• Experience with design, analysis, test, and certification, integrating them into the Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) Training Environment

About Collins Aerospace

Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you'll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Optional coverages you can buy: pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
• Adoption Assistance
• Autism Benefit
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
• Eligible for relocation assistance
• And more!

Additional Information

Salary Range: $68,900 USD - $131,100 USD

The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate's work experience, location, education/training, and key skills. Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays.

Note on Interview Process: As part of our commitment to maintaining a secure hiring process, candidates may be asked to attend select steps of the interview process in-person at one of our office locations, regardless of whether the role is designated as on-site, hybrid or remote.

At Collins, the paths we pave together lead to limitless possibility. And the bonds we form – with our customers and with each other -- propel us all higher, again and again.