Senior Specialist, Systems Engineering

About the role

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers' mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for development of program technical baseline. Works closely with program Chief System Engineer to develop verifiable technical requirements.
• Responsible for providing technical leadership, guidance, and direction to Electrical, Mechanical, Software, and Firmware designers to ensure the success of the design.
• Control and develop requirements and verification plans while positively interacting with customers to solve technical problems and identify areas to improve their work.
• Responsible for the technical integrity of the system through the product/program full life cycle including proposals, design, integration & test, verification, and sustainment.
• Walk both sides of the V; decompose requirements to drive a risk mitigated development plan, oversee system integration, and lead requirements-based verification using test threads.
• Technical point of contact for the customer.
• Brief leadership on technical status.
• Identifies, tracks, mitigates, manages, and disposes of program-level risks and opportunities.
• Able to lead Root Cause / Corrective Action investigations that are typically associated with Qualification or Acceptance test failures including managing the investigation and briefing internal and external customers throughout the effort.
• Estimate resource and material needs for the project/product.
• Use data models, hardware/software interfaces, synchronous processing constructs and control methodology, real-time processing including CPU / FPGA / GPU fabric, precision time distribution and discipline, and data interfaces.
• Perform trade studies on a variety of systems and components.
• Able to obtain Secret security clearance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
• Extensive experience in digital electronics, FPGA/VHDL and software development of custom electronic subsystems.
• Experience in detailed design for Telemetry or similar mixed-signal products.
• Experience or knowledge of Government contract acquisition lifecycle a plus.
• Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, & presentation).
• Experience developing technical or cost proposals (including generating basis of estimates) in a defense contracting environment.
• Master’s degree in Systems, Electrical, or similar Engineering discipline.
• 4 years of experience in digital electronics, FPGA/VHDL and software development and integration programs.
• 2 years of experience with requirements management along with DOORs, JAMA or equivalent requirements management tool

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in digital electronics, FPGA/VHDL and software development of custom electronic subsystems.
• Experience or knowledge of Government contract acquisition lifecycle a plus.
• Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, & presentation).
• Experience developing technical or cost proposals (including generating basis of estimates) in a defense contracting environment.
• Master’s degree in Systems, Electrical, or similar Engineering discipline.
• 4 years of experience in digital electronics, FPGA/VHDL and software development and integration programs.
• 2 years of experience with requirements management along with DOORs, JAMA or equivalent requirements management tool

Skills

• Ability to obtain Secret security clearance.

Benefits

• Drug-free workplace policy.
• E-Verify Employer.

Pay

• Competitive compensation package.

Schedule

• 9/80 schedule - works 9 out of 14 days, totaling 80 hours worked, and has every other Friday off.