Senior Principal Should Cost Engineer (Remote)
RTXDate Posted: 2026-10-15

 Country: United States of America

 Location: US-NY-REMOTE

 Position Role Type: Remote

 U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements: U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.

 Security Clearance Type: None/Not Required

 Security Clearance Status: Not Required At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense. This Senior Principal Should Cost Engineer will be a part of team that will be designing, building and operationalizing a should cost capability that drives cost transparency to our sourcing team for supplier negotiations across multiple components, aircrafts and defense products and subsystems. What You Will Do This role will lead cost modeling and benchmarking activities spanning complex assemblies, parts. This role will utilize aPriori significantly as well as home grown regression models and still to be developed models. Should costing and should cost modeling for all commodities including standing up a supplier designed equipment, electronics, composite and other more difficult should costing commodities. Should costing components and assemblies, translating engineering drawings and models into costed elements (material, labor, OH, tooling, logistics). Develop and maintain cost roll ups and drivers at appropriate levels of granularity to support negotiations. Create assumptions and cost driver logic. Use historical data to create forward looking models when should costing software is not available. Validate and calibrate models at appropriate intervals. Train new users of software or models and help/contribute to upgrading standard work. Conduction should cost assessments on parts with software called aPriori. Potential travel with Supply Chain managers occasionally, however, minimal. Qualifications You Must Have Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 14 years of relevant experience. Experience with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing for engineering drawings reading and interpretation. Costing or design to cost experience. Experience with should cost tools. Qualifications We Prefer Programming experience (VB, SQL, Python). Experience in aerospace/defense procurement or engineering. Experience with big data sets or data analytics. What We Offer Whether you’re just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a robust total rewards package with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement and work/life benefits; career development and recognition programs. Some of the benefits we offer include parental (including paternal) leave, flexible work schedules, achievement awards, educational assistance and child/adult backup care. Learn More & Apply Now Please ensure the role type defined below is appropriate for your needs before applying to this role. This position is classified as: Remote: Employees who are working in Remote roles will work primarily offsite (from home). If you live within a reasonable commute of an RTX site with other colleagues you interact with, your manager will discuss whether there is a degree of onsite presence associated with this role. As part of our commitment to maintaining a secure hiring pr…