Sarah Dean
Principal Engineer, E&E Engineering at RTX
Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Dean is a Principal Electrical Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience designing, troubleshooting, and leading avionics, propulsion test, and mission-critical electrical systems across aerospace and defense. Holding a Secret clearance and dual engineering/meteorology training from the University of Oklahoma, she has driven hardware recoveries, creative parts workarounds, and safety upgrades that preserved program schedules through supply-chain and test challenges. Her background spans flight director duties for stratospheric vehicles, rocket engine test stand instrumentation at Blue Origin, and R&D/CCA design and root-cause engineering at Raytheon and RTX. Known for translating field troubleshooting into durable documentation and test procedures, she pairs system-level thinking with lab-floor pragmatism—often standardizing sensor and safety networks to simplify operations. Based in New Mexico with upcoming responsibilities at RTX, she brings a rare blend of hands-on wiring harness and PLC expertise alongside high-speed data acquisition and mission-control experience.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Oklahoma – Gallogly College of EngineeringBachelor’s Degree Meteorology, Bachelor’s Degree Meteorology at University of Oklahoma
Github Skills (5)
ieee9
rover6
perception5
autopilot5
self-driving-car5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zackphillips/htdeblur
Apr 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:16 commits, 9 pushes in 7 months
sarahxdean/website
Dec 2021 - May 2023
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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