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Updated 2026-07-20

RTX has six values, not five.
Safety leads, and your resume must show it.

What this page covers

RTX added Safety as the first value at the July 2023 rebrand, so the five-value set repeated across the web, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, Innovation, is the superseded framework. This page maps each of the six official values to resume language: the verbatim description, a show-this example, an avoid-this, and the HireVue behavioral probe RTX would map to it.

Free to scanSix official valuesEvidence over adjectives
By the numbers
Official values
6
Safety listed first
Safety added
2023
July RTX rebrand
Operating system
CORE
Not a hiring rubric
Named scorecard
None
HireVue + behavioral

The quick answer

What are RTX's core values, and how many are there?

RTX has six official values: Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation, published on rtx.com and in the 2025 Code of Conduct, with Safety listed first. Safety was added at the July 2023 rebrand from Raytheon Technologies to RTX, so the widely repeated five-value set that omits it is the superseded 2020 to 2023 framework, not the current one. Customer Success Is Our Mission is the legacy tagline of the pre-2020 standalone Raytheon Company, not the RTX corporate rubric. RTX publishes no graded interview scorecard: the six values are what it operates and hires against, assessed through a commonly reported HireVue recorded video round and behavioral STAR questions, especially around Safety and Accountability. On a resume, do not list the values as labels. Embed each one inside an achievement with a metric, a safety incident rate you drove down, a commitment you owned end to end, a cross-team outcome you enabled, so a reviewer reads the value in the work itself. .

RTX publishes six official values on rtx.com and in the 2025 Code of Conduct: Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation. Safety is listed first. It was added at the July 2023 rebrand from Raytheon Technologies to RTX, which is the single most common thing candidates get wrong.

The five-value set repeated across the web, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation with no Safety, is the superseded Raytheon Technologies framework from 2020 to 2023. Presenting only those five presents a dead rubric as current, so lead with Safety and treat the set as six.

Two more things get miscited. Customer Success Is Our Mission is the legacy tagline of the standalone Raytheon Company before the 2020 merger, not the RTX corporate values framework, though it may still surface in defense-segment contexts. CORE is RTX's continuous-improvement operating system, an operations framework in the spirit of Lean and Six Sigma, not a hiring scorecard.

RTX frames its purpose around “a safer, more connected world,” which is why Safety sits first. The resume reading is the same for all six values: a reviewer indexes on the value being visible in the outcome itself, not asserted as an adjective. A line that reads safety-conscious team player fails; a line that reads redesigned a torque procedure that cut recordable incidents 44% passes, because it shows Safety without ever using the word.

What RTX does not publish

RTX publishes no named interview scorecard and no per-value key-behaviors checklist. The six values are what RTX operates and hires against, assessed through a commonly reported HireVue recorded video round and behavioral rounds, not a graded rubric. Do not present the superseded five-value set as current, do not treat CORE as a hiring scorecard, and do not read Customer Success Is Our Mission as a live value. The three RTX businesses, Collins Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney included, run on the same RTX corporate values, so there is no separate divisional values list to map to.

The six values, deep-dived

Every value with the verbatim line,
a worked bullet, and the probe.

Source for the six values and the verbatim descriptions: RTX, Our Values, and the 2025 RTX Code of Conduct. Safety leads; the descriptions below are quoted exactly as RTX publishes them. The what-it-means, resume examples, and interview probes are ResumeAdapter's mapping, illustrative templates rather than RTX-supplied.

01
RTX value 01Added at 2023 rebrand

Safety

“We prioritize safety in every aspect of our work.”

The official RTX description, verbatim

In aerospace and defense, safety is a gating requirement rather than a slogan: product safety, workplace safety, flight safety, and process discipline. RTX reads for people who treat safety as a design constraint and a stop-work authority, not a variable to trade against schedule.

What it means in practice
Show this on your resume

Show a safety outcome you owned with a number: an incident rate you drove down, a hazard you designed out, a safety process you built, or a compliance bar you cleared. Lead with the measured reduction, not a safety-conscious label.

Redesigned a wing-assembly torque procedure that engineered out a recurring fastener-failure hazard, cutting recordable incidents on the line 44% across two shifts over 12 months.

Avoid this anti-pattern

Naming safety as a trait with no incident, no mechanism, and no number. A safety-conscious self-label says nothing about what you actually made safer.

Safety-conscious team player committed to a strong safety culture and following all protocols.

HireVue behavioral probe

“Tell me about a time you stopped work or pushed back on a schedule because of a safety concern. What did you do, and what was the outcome?”

02
RTX value 02

Trust

“We act with integrity and do the right thing.”

The official RTX description, verbatim

Trust at RTX is integrity under pressure: doing the right thing on quality, export control, and reporting even when it is slower or costlier. In a cleared defense environment it also maps literally to handling classified and export-controlled information correctly.

What it means in practice
Show this on your resume

Show integrity you can audit: a compliance or quality bar you held, a discrepancy you reported, a control you strengthened, or reliability people kept depending on. Attach the counterparty and the number.

Caught and corrected a mislabeled export-controlled drawing before release, then rebuilt the ITAR review checklist that closed the gap, taking classification errors to zero across 300 subsequent releases.

Avoid this anti-pattern

Trusted advisor or high integrity asserted with no counterparty and no auditable outcome. Integrity claimed as an adjective is filler.

Trusted professional of high integrity known for always doing the right thing.

HireVue behavioral probe

“Tell me about a time doing the right thing cost you time, money, or standing. What was the situation, and how did you handle it?”

03
RTX value 03

Respect

“We embrace diverse perspectives and treat others the way they want to be treated.”

The official RTX description, verbatim

Respect at RTX is embracing diverse perspectives and treating others the way they want to be treated, on cross-functional programs staffed by engineers, suppliers, primes, and government customers. It reads as how you worked across differences to reach an outcome.

What it means in practice
Show this on your resume

Show a specific instance where you incorporated a differing perspective or adapted to a partner and it improved the result. Name the mechanism and the outcome, not a respectful and inclusive label.

Restructured design reviews to bring supplier and test-engineer perspectives in early, resolving a thermal-margin dispute that had stalled a subsystem and recovering 3 weeks on the program schedule.

Avoid this anti-pattern

Respectful, inclusive team player as a trait with no situation and no result. A belief statement is not evidence.

Respectful and inclusive team player who values diverse perspectives and treats everyone well.

HireVue behavioral probe

“Tell me about a time you worked with someone whose approach differed sharply from yours. How did you handle it, and what came of it?”

04
RTX value 04

Accountability

“We honor our commitments, expect excellence and take pride in our work.”

The official RTX description, verbatim

Accountability at RTX is honoring commitments, expecting excellence, and taking pride in the work, on fixed-price defense programs where a missed milestone carries contractual and mission consequences. It reads as ownership of a commitment end to end.

What it means in practice
Show this on your resume

Show a commitment you owned and delivered against a hard bar: a milestone you hit, a cost or schedule variance you closed, a defect rate you drove down, a program you took from red to green. Lead with the delta.

Took ownership of a behind-schedule radar-module build, replanned the integration sequence, and delivered the milestone on the contractual date while holding first-pass yield above 98%.

Avoid this anti-pattern

Results-driven and accountable as an adjective stack with no commitment named and no outcome. Ownership claimed without an artifact is filler.

Results-driven professional who takes ownership and holds themselves accountable for excellence.

HireVue behavioral probe

“Tell me about a commitment you owned that was at risk of slipping. What did you do to hold the line, and what was the result?”

05
RTX value 05

Collaboration

“We share insights, learn together and perform as a team.”

The official RTX description, verbatim

Collaboration at RTX is sharing insights, learning together, and performing as a team, across the three businesses (Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon) and with primes, suppliers, and government customers. It reads as team outcomes you enabled, not solo heroics.

What it means in practice
Show this on your resume

Show a cross-team outcome you drove, an insight you shared that others adopted, or a working group you led, credited to the team and attached to a number.

Built a shared test-data dashboard adopted by three integration teams across two sites, cutting duplicated regression runs 30% and giving the program one source of truth for flight-readiness.

Avoid this anti-pattern

A great team player who collaborates cross-functionally, with no team named and no shared outcome. A collaboration adjective is not a collaboration.

Collaborative team player who works well cross-functionally and shares knowledge with others.

HireVue behavioral probe

“Tell me about a result your team reached that you could not have reached alone. What was your part, and how did you get the team there?”

06
RTX value 06

Innovation

“We experiment, design, build and transform with speed and agility.”

The official RTX description, verbatim

Innovation at RTX is experimenting, designing, building, and transforming with speed and agility, in a regulated environment where novelty still has to clear qualification and safety. It reads as a specific thing you built or improved and the measured delta, inside real constraints.

What it means in practice
Show this on your resume

Name the approach you prototyped or the process you transformed and the measurable improvement. In a regulated environment a small, qualified innovation with a metric beats a sweeping claim.

Prototyped a model-based systems-engineering workflow for a guidance subsystem, cutting requirements-to-test cycle time 35% while keeping full DO-178C traceability.

Avoid this anti-pattern

Innovative and cutting-edge with no artifact and no delta. A buzzword is not an innovation.

Innovative and cutting-edge engineer passionate about transformation and next-generation technology.

HireVue behavioral probe

“Tell me about something you built or a process you changed to move faster inside real constraints. What was it, and what did it improve?”

Value names and descriptions quoted verbatim from RTX, rtx.com/who-we-are/our-values, and the 2025 RTX Code of Conduct. Resume examples and HireVue probes are ResumeAdapter's mapping, illustrative templates.

The frameworks people confuse with the values

What the six values
are not.

The superseded five. Before the July 2023 rebrand, Raytheon Technologies published five values: Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation. RTX kept those five and added Safety at the top. Any current-looking list that shows five values without Safety is quoting the 2020 to 2023 framework, which is retired.

The legacy tagline. Customer Success Is Our Mission belonged to the standalone Raytheon Company, the defense contractor that existed before the 2020 merger with United Technologies. It is a heritage tagline, still seen in some defense-segment contexts, not a value in the RTX corporate framework.

CORE. CORE is RTX's continuous-improvement operating system, an operations framework in the spirit of Lean and Six Sigma. Naming it in a behavioral interview signals process discipline, but it is not a hiring scorecard and it is not one of the six values.

Shared across the businesses. RTX runs three businesses, Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. They operate on the same RTX corporate values, so there is no separate divisional values list a candidate needs to map to.

On a resume you do not quote any of these frameworks. You show that you already operate the six values, safety designed in, commitments owned, teams enabled, each proven with a number. That, not a values statement, is what an RTX reviewer can actually read.

Values and descriptions verbatim from RTX, rtx.com/who-we-are/our-values, and the 2025 RTX Code of Conduct. Safety added at the July 2023 rebrand from Raytheon Technologies to RTX.

FAQ

RTX values, FAQ

The questions candidates surface about what RTX actually screens for, after they have read the pillar. 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.

What are RTX's core values?

Six: Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation, published on rtx.com and in the 2025 Code of Conduct, with Safety listed first.

Does RTX have five or six values?

Six. Safety was added as the first value at the July 2023 rebrand from Raytheon Technologies to RTX; the older five-value set (no Safety) is superseded.

Is Customer Success Is Our Mission an RTX value?

No. That is the legacy tagline of the standalone Raytheon Company before the 2020 merger, not the current RTX corporate values framework.

What is CORE at RTX?

CORE is RTX's continuous-improvement operating system, an operations framework in the spirit of Lean and Six Sigma. It is not a hiring rubric, but naming it signals process discipline in behavioral interviews.

How are RTX values tested in interviews?

Through a commonly reported HireVue recorded video round and behavioral STAR questions mapped to the six values, especially Safety and Accountability. RTX does not publish a graded scorecard.

Should I list RTX values on my resume?

Embed the value inside the achievement (a Safety or Accountability outcome with a metric), not as a labeled Values section.

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The rest of the RTX
resume cluster.

01 / Pillar

How to get a job at RTX

The pillar covering RTX's application path through Workday and Phenom, the six values in summary, the levels read, and the defense-eligibility gate.

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02 / Spoke

RTX levels

How RTX maps to the P1 to P6 levels.fyi shorthand, the base-plus-bonus comp with near-zero equity, and how the bar shifts as the band rises.

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03 / Spoke

The RTX interview process

The HireVue recorded round and behavioral loop, the security-clearance and ITAR screen, and how the six values surface across the panel.

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04 / Resume example

Mechanical engineer resume

A worked mechanical-engineer resume showing the quantified safety, quality, and program outcomes an RTX reviewer reads for.

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