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RTX (Raytheon) Hiring Guide 2026
Updated 2026-07-20

RTX runs one Workday tenant.
Three businesses, one resume bar.

Why this matters

One Workday tenant behind a Phenom careers site serves Raytheon, Pratt & Whitney, and Collins Aerospace, so a Workday parser reads your resume first. On Raytheon defense roles, your US-person eligibility and clearance are screened before a recruiter reads a word. The bar is the six RTX values, Safety first.

Business-unit targetingClearance in the headerRewrite plan
By the numbers
Application system
Workday
Behind a Phenom career site
RTX values
6
Safety added at the 2023 rebrand
Businesses
3
Raytheon, Pratt & Whitney, Collins
Eligibility gate
Clearance + ITAR
US-person gate on defense roles

The quick answer

What is an RTX (Raytheon) ready resume in 2026?

RTX runs Raytheon, Pratt & Whitney, and Collins Aerospace through one Workday tenant behind a Phenom careers site, so a Workday parser reads your resume before a recruiter does: single column, contact details in the body (Workday strips headers and footers), standard section headings, a real text-layer PDF or DOCX, and your clearance level in the header where it is a top-weighted signal. On Raytheon defense roles, US citizenship plus the ability to obtain a security clearance (Secret, Top Secret, or TS/SCI) plus ITAR eligibility are screened before review. Every bullet should map to one of the six RTX values (Safety first) and carry the program vocabulary of your business unit: GTF and F135 for Pratt, DO-178C and ARP4754A for Collins, Patriot, LTAMDS, and AESA radar for Raytheon. .

RTX reported a record backlog of approximately $271 billion in Q1 2026 (reported April 21, 2026), roughly $109 billion of it in defense, on about $22 billion in quarterly sales. For job seekers, that is evidence of sustained, defense-led hiring demand.

Interview preparation

The RTX interview, decoded
round by round.

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  • 01A 40-page round-by-round guide to the RTX hiring process across Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon
  • 02Recruiter screen, technical, behavioral, panel, and cleared defense-context rounds
  • 03A cleared-interview playbook: the ITAR and classified line, releasable framing, and how to decline specifics
  • 04A behavioral story bank mapped to RTX's six values, with a safety, quality, and reliability premium
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RTX's ATS of record is Workday Recruiting. Every live req across Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon defense resolves to one Workday tenant at globalhr.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com (site path REC_RTX_Ext_Gateway). RTX's own recruitment-fraud page identifies Workday Recruiting as its applicant tracking system.

What confuses people is the front door. The public careers.rtx.com is a Phenom People experience layer: it renders the job pages, runs the chatbot, and sends the scheduling emails. rtx.yello.co is a Yello talent community, not the ATS. Neither is where your application lands. The Apply button hands off to Workday.

This is not the Oracle Taleo the legacy Raytheon Company ran before the merger; that careersection is retired. It is not iCIMS, not Greenhouse, not Lever, not Avature, and not SuccessFactors. It is one standard Workday instance serving three businesses.

Workday parse rules are load-bearing: a single column, contact details in the body because Workday strips headers and footers, standard section headings, and a DOCX or clean text-layer PDF. Clean formatting gets your resume parsed and read. What gets you advanced is content a recruiter can score fast: the six RTX values and your segment's program vocabulary, each tied to a number.

One ATS, three businesses

One ATS.
Three vocabularies.

The same Workday parser scores three different keyword indexes: a Raytheon defense resume, a Pratt engine resume, and a Collins avionics resume are read against three different program vocabularies. Carry the language of the segment you are applying to, not a generic aerospace word list. For the full keyword bank by unit, see the RTX resume keywords guide.

  1. 01
    Defense segment

    Raytheon

    Radar, missiles, and integrated air and missile defense. Formed at the 2023 reorganization by merging Raytheon Intelligence & Space with Raytheon Missiles & Defense into one Raytheon defense segment.

    Vocabulary to mirror

    Patriot, LTAMDS, SPY-6, AMRAAM, SM-6, AESA and GaN radar, EW, and MBSE, plus ITAR and an active clearance.

  2. 02
    Engines segment

    Pratt & Whitney

    Military and commercial propulsion plus aftermarket MRO. The engines business behind the geared turbofan and the F135.

    Vocabulary to mirror

    GTF, PW1100G, F135, F119, FADEC, FAR Part 33, and MRO.

  3. 03
    Avionics segment

    Collins Aerospace

    Avionics, interiors, and cabin and mission systems. The avionics and connected-aircraft business.

    Vocabulary to mirror

    DO-178C, DO-254, ARP4754A, ARINC 429 and 664, and Pro Line Fusion.

One Workday tenant. Three keyword indexes. Match the segment, not a generic aerospace word list.

On Raytheon defense roles, three things are screened before a recruiter reads your resume: US citizenship, the ability to obtain a US government security clearance (Secret, Top Secret, or TS/SCI), and ITAR and export-control eligibility. The reason is regulatory, not preference. The work is export-controlled, so RTX applies the filter before review begins.

Collins Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney roles are mostly uncleared, unless the role touches a classified military program: F-35 engines, F-22 sustainment, or special-mission avionics. If you are eligible, state your work authorization and clearance clearly so a recruiter does not have to guess.

Cleared roles add roughly 4 to 12 weeks, and sometimes months, of clearance investigation and adjudication. An active, transferable clearance speeds this materially, which is why an active clearance belongs in your resume header, not buried in the body.

Export compliance is now a heightened screen. In August 2024, RTX settled with the US State Department for $200 million over roughly 750 ITAR and Arms Export Control Act violations spanning 2017 to 2023. The discipline that followed shows up as a stricter eligibility and export-control screen on defense roles, so describe your eligibility accurately and never overstate it.

How to structure your RTX resume

Four steps from
generic resume to Workday-ready, value-mapped spec.

The minimum-viable rewrite for any RTX application. The full HowTo JSON-LD is published in the page schema; the visible steps below are byte-aligned with it.

01
Step

Pick your target business unit and level

Choose the RTX segment you are applying to, Raytheon for defense, Pratt & Whitney for engines, or Collins Aerospace for avionics, and map your experience to a level. levels.fyi normalizes RTX to a P1 to P6 band, which is community shorthand, not an official RTX grade map, so use it to gauge scope, not as an exact title. Then write at the altitude of the level you are targeting.

02
Step

Rewrite bullets as value plus metric pairs in your segment vocabulary

Map each bullet to one of the six RTX values, Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, or Innovation, and attach a number. Then carry the program vocabulary of your business unit: GTF, F135, and FADEC for Pratt; DO-178C, ARP4754A, and ARINC for Collins; Patriot, LTAMDS, AMRAAM, and AESA for Raytheon. The same Workday parser scores three different keyword indexes.

03
Step

Put clearance and eligibility in the header, then strip Workday-hostile formatting

On defense roles, list an active clearance (Secret, Top Secret, or TS/SCI) and your US-person eligibility in the header, where the parser and the recruiter both look first. Then format for Workday: single column, contact details in the body because Workday strips headers and footers, standard section headings, and a DOCX or clean text-layer PDF. Remove multi-column layouts, graphic skill bars, and scanned images.

04
Step

Scan against an RTX job description on ResumeAdapter

Upload to ResumeAdapter to see your ATS-style score against the specific RTX job description, the missing segment vocabulary and value language, and a rewrite plan. Iterate until every bullet carries a quantified outcome mapped to an RTX value and your segment's program terms.

Bullets a recruiter can score fast

Three worked bullets,
one per RTX business, each mapped to a value.

Each bullet below is a compressed STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) mapped to one RTX value and carrying the program vocabulary of its segment, the kind of bullet a recruiter and a hiring manager can both score in one pass. For the full interview question bank, see the RTX interview questions guide; for the loop and the clearance gate, see the RTX interview process spoke.

Raytheon / RF Systems EngineerAccountability

Owned an AESA radar signal-chain fix through the design review

Situation
A GaN-based AESA array showed a false-alarm rate above spec in cluttered environments during integration testing, and the program milestone was at risk.
Task
Own the root cause and restore detection performance before the design review, without a hardware respin the schedule could not absorb.
Action
Traced it to a Doppler-filter threshold in the signal chain, reworked the CFAR algorithm, and revalidated against recorded clutter data in a MATLAB and hardware-in-the-loop loop.
Result
Cut the false-alarm rate 38 percent and held detection range, clearing the design review on schedule with no respin.
Resume bullet

Owned an AESA radar false-alarm fix: reworked the CFAR threshold in the signal chain, cutting false alarms 38 percent with no hardware respin and clearing the design review on schedule.

Pratt & Whitney / Engine DurabilitySafety

Closed a GTF turbine durability finding before it reached the fleet

Situation
Fleet data flagged accelerated wear on a GTF (PW1100G) high-pressure turbine blade coating, driving unplanned engine removals and shop visits.
Task
Contain the durability risk and define a fix without grounding the affected engines, protecting safety margin and airline schedules together.
Action
Led the root-cause analysis across materials and thermals, validated a revised coating and inspection interval against FADEC-logged operating data, and documented the FAR Part 33 substantiation.
Result
Extended the inspection interval and cut unplanned removals for the affected build, with the fix folded into the MRO workscope.
Resume bullet

Led a GTF high-pressure turbine durability fix: validated a revised coating and inspection interval against FADEC data, cutting unplanned engine removals and folding the fix into the MRO workscope.

Collins Aerospace / Avionics SoftwareInnovation

Automated DO-178C verification to earn DAL-B credit faster

Situation
A display-system software update needed DO-178C DAL-B certification credit, but manual requirements-based test authoring was the schedule bottleneck.
Task
Preserve full DO-178C traceability and certification credit while cutting the verification time the program could not keep absorbing.
Action
Built a model-based test-generation harness tied to the ARP4754A requirements and DO-254 hardware interfaces, automating requirements-to-test traceability for the ARINC 429 and 664 I/O.
Result
Cut verification effort roughly 30 percent on the update while preserving DAL-B credit and a clean traceability matrix for the DER review.
Resume bullet

Built a model-based DO-178C verification harness for a DAL-B display update, automating requirements-to-test traceability across ARINC 429 and 664 I/O and cutting verification effort about 30 percent with certification credit intact.

In July 2023, Raytheon Technologies rebranded to RTX and reorganized from four segments to three, merging Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Raytheon Missiles & Defense into a single Raytheon defense segment alongside Pratt & Whitney and Collins Aerospace. Safety was added as a sixth value at the same rebrand, which is why the widely repeated five-value set is superseded.

The demand signal is strong and defense-led. RTX reported a record backlog of approximately $271 billion in Q1 2026, and headcount was approximately 186,000 as of the December 31, 2024 10-K. RTX is in net-hiring mode, not the layoff posture that has defined much of big tech.

The one caution is at Pratt & Whitney. In September 2023, RTX disclosed a GTF powder-metal manufacturing issue and took an approximately $3 billion to $3.5 billion net pre-tax charge, with roughly 600 to 700 engines coming off wing for accelerated shop visits between 2023 and 2026. That drives heavy MRO and durability engineering demand rather than hiring cuts.

The munitions side is ramping. February 2026 framework deals push Tomahawk to more than 1,000 per year, AMRAAM to at least 1,900 per year, and SM-6 to more than 500 per year. On a resume, program vocabulary tied to these lines, mapped to an RTX value with a number, reads as directly relevant to where the hiring is.

FAQ

RTX (Raytheon) hiring FAQ

The questions most candidates surface when they cross-check their resume against the RTX hiring funnel. Answers are byte-identical to the FAQPage JSON-LD, because AI engines that extract HTML and AI engines that extract JSON-LD should not see different text.

Does RTX use Workday for job applications?

Yes. RTX runs Workday Recruiting behind a Phenom careers site (careers.rtx.com). One Workday tenant (globalhr.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com) handles Raytheon, Pratt & Whitney, and Collins Aerospace. It is not the Oracle Taleo the legacy Raytheon Company used, which is retired.

Is RTX the same company as Raytheon?

RTX is the parent. Raytheon Technologies renamed to RTX in July 2023. Raytheon is now RTX's defense segment, alongside Pratt & Whitney (engines) and Collins Aerospace (avionics). All three apply through the same RTX Workday ATS.

Do I need a security clearance or US citizenship to work at RTX?

Many Raytheon defense roles require US citizenship plus the ability to obtain a Secret, Top Secret, or TS/SCI clearance, and ITAR eligibility. Collins and Pratt are mostly uncleared unless the program is classified. List an active clearance in your resume header.

What are RTX's core values?

Six: Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation. Safety was added at the July 2023 rebrand, so the older five-value set is superseded.

Which RTX business unit should I apply to?

Raytheon for defense (radar, missiles, air defense), Pratt & Whitney for engines, Collins Aerospace for avionics and cabin systems. One ATS, three different keyword vocabularies.

What keywords does RTX's ATS look for?

By unit: GTF, F135, FADEC for Pratt; DO-178C, ARP4754A, ARINC for Collins; Patriot, LTAMDS, AMRAAM, AESA, ITAR for Raytheon. Plus AS9100, your clearance level, and CORE.

How much does RTX pay engineers?

Community data (levels.fyi, July 2026) shows roughly $94K entry to about $239K senior for software engineers, a company-wide median around $128K, and mostly base plus a modest bonus with little to no equity.

Is it hard to get a job at RTX?

Moderately, and clearance adds weeks. RTX is net-hiring, defense-led. Tailor your resume to the specific business unit and put eligibility in the header.

Continue

Go deeper on the parts
that need their own page.

Spoke

The 6 RTX values, mapped to resume language

Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation, each with what it looks like on a resume bullet and why Safety was added at the 2023 rebrand.

Read the spoke
Spoke

RTX / Raytheon levels and pay, P1 to P6

The community-reported P1 to P6 band with levels.fyi-anchored compensation, and why RTX pays base plus a modest bonus with little to no equity, the defense inversion of big tech.

Read the spoke
Spoke

The RTX interview process and clearance gate

The loop from recruiter screen through the technical and values-based rounds, plus how the clearance investigation and ITAR gate add weeks to a defense offer.

Read the spoke
Resume example

Aerospace and defense engineer resume example

A worked aerospace-engineer resume with quantified, parser-safe bullets and program vocabulary, the structure this guide describes, shown end to end.

See the example
Related cornerstone

Cleared defense engineer: the recovery playbook.

Cleared and moving between primes, or re-entering after a gap? The cornerstone covers how to position an active clearance, frame program work under ITAR without oversharing, and rebuild a defense-ready resume. You can also read the defense and aerospace careers guide or browse all company resume hubs.

Read the cleared defense engineer recovery playbook
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