- Company: Raytheon
- Location: Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles County
- Full Time
- Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles County
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Raytheon at a glance
raytheon.com- Founded 1922
- Employees 70000
SEC filings mentioning "Raytheon": 8,925 — search EDGAR
Raytheon is a major U.S. defense business unit of RTX Corporation, focused on weapons and military and commercial electronics. Founded in 1922, it merged with United Technologies in 2020; the combined company became RTX in 2023. DATA lists about 70,000 employees. Recent coverage includes AMRAAM component work with NATO, F/A-18 electronic-warfare upgrades, and expanded Stinger production with European partners.
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Join Raytheon as a Principal Integrated Product Team Lead (IPTL) in El Segundo, California. This full-time, onsite leadership position offers the opportunity to drive product development and cross-functional collaboration within a complex, mission-critical environment.
About the Role
As a Principal Integrated Product Team Lead, you'll oversee the strategic direction and execution of integrated product team initiatives. This role combines technical oversight with program leadership, requiring you to align engineering, design, operations, and business objectives while maintaining accountability for delivery and quality standards.
What You'll Do
- Lead and mentor cross-functional integrated product teams across design, engineering, and operational disciplines
- Define product vision and strategy while managing technical trade-offs and business constraints
- Oversee product development cycles, from concept through deployment and continuous improvement
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to drive alignment on priorities and outcomes
- Ensure compliance with regulatory and contractual requirements in a defense and aerospace context
- Drive innovation while maintaining safety, quality, and schedule discipline
What We're Looking For
- Active and transferable U.S. government security clearance required prior to start date
- U.S. citizenship required, as eligibility for security clearance depends on citizenship status
- Proven experience leading product teams and managing complex technical programs
- Strong background in systems thinking and cross-functional collaboration
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience in highly regulated industries, preferably defense, aerospace, or similar sectors
About Raytheon
Raytheon is a leading defense and aerospace technology company committed to solving the world's hardest problems. Based in El Segundo, our team develops advanced solutions that make a measurable difference. If you're looking for a career where your work has real-world impact, this is the place.
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- Raytheon, NATO Move to Build Advanced AMRAAM Missile Components in Europe - WSJ
- U.S. Navy Advances Raytheon F/A-18E/F Electronic Warfare Upgrade - Aviation Week
- Raytheon Teams With European Defense Firms to Double Stinger Missile Production - The Defense Post
- Europe to Expand AIM-120 Missile Production for Ukrainian F-16s and NATO Fighters, Opening New Opportunities for Ukraine - Defense Express
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Working in Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles County
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This onsite role is in Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles County, California (90266). Coastal South Bay setting within the greater L.A. defense and aerospace corridor; expect onsite collaboration rather than remote work.
California is a U.S. state in the Western United States that lies on the Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, and Nevada and Arizona to the east; it also shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California to the south. With over 39 million residents across an area of 163,696 square miles (423,970 km2), it is the largest U.S. state by population and third-largest by
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National unemployment rate in US: 4.2% — via World Bank
Private-sector wage growth (year over year): 3.3% — via FRED
National quits rate: 1.9% — via FRED (BLS JOLTS)
GDP per capita in US: $90,027 — via World Bank
Consumer price inflation in US: 2.9% (annual) — via World Bank
Average hours worked per year in US: 1,800 — via OECD
Cost of living in California: 10.7% above the national average — via BEA
Median household income in Los Angeles County: $87,760 — via US Census ACS / Data USA
Typical climate: average high 71°F / low 54°F year-round (summers around 76°F, winters around 47°F) — via NOAA 1991-2020 Normals
Walkability: Most walkable (19.2/20) — via EPA National Walkability Index
Typical rent nearby: $2,085/mo (1BR) · $2,601/mo (2BR) — via HUD Fair Market Rents
- Elevation 39m (128 ft)
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Build the skills for this role
Build depth in systems engineering, earned-value and risk management, requirements flow-down, and supplier coordination. Principal IPTL work favors prior IPT or program-lead experience on hardware/software-intensive defense products; clearances and customer interface skills often matter. No cert resources were provided in DATA.
- Walk a past program: scope, IPT structure, trade-offs, and how you recovered cost/schedule risk.
- Explain how you run technical, cost, and schedule baselines with engineering and subcontractors.
- Be ready on Raytheon/RTX product lines and why onsite leadership in Manhattan Beach fits your style.
Strong fit if you have led multi-discipline product teams on defense electronics or weapons systems and want onsite Principal IPTL ownership at a large RTX business unit—not a remote or purely individual-contributor systems role.
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- Role Principal Integrated Product Team Lead (IPTL) (Onsite)
- Employer Raytheon
- Location Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles County
- Type Full Time
- Posted July 1, 2026
- Apply by 2026-08-01
- Country context US
- Overview Full original description on this page (310 words; rewritten for clarity, not a teaser paste)
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