Sr Specialist, Systems Engineer 1

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.

About the role

L3Harris' Spectrum Superiority segment is seeking a Systems Engineer to support multiple programs, with an emphasis on Systems Integration and Test. This position will be based at our Salt Lake City, UT facility and encompasses life-cycle support of systems from conceptual development through product phase-out. The role maintains a strong focus on Integration and Test (I&T) to support the development, verification, and validation of complex systems.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the planning and conduct of technical projects or portions of projects in a focused, high-productivity environment.
• Capture and manage customer and derived requirements, decompose and assign requirements to functional areas, ensuring traceability from a verification test matrix back to original customer and system-level derived requirements.
• Develop technical specifications, interface control documents, test plans and procedures; analyze configuration and processing solutions; and test conformance to specifications.
• Employ best practices, tools, and techniques to design and develop new products or modify existing products.
• Ensure technical performance, quality, and adherence to schedule while following established policies and objectives.
• Evaluate vendor capabilities and manage subcontracts to secure required products or services.
• Lead or support design reviews.
• Plan and execute systems integration activities, develop test strategies, and ensure system performance meets defined requirements across hardware, software, and networked components.
• Travel 20-40% of the time to customer and subcontractor sites in support of technical meetings and verification activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience, or Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience, or in lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
• Currently hold a DoD security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in system-level development, requirements definition, analysis, and risk mitigation for Communications, Open Systems Architecture, Satellite Communications, and/or Electronic Warfare systems.
• Presentation and communication skills, problem-solving skills, and the ability to meet critical deadlines.
• Experience in Model Based Systems Engineering.
• Understanding of coordination of projects and roles of technical support personnel; ability to work independently.
• System Security Testing experience.
• Experience with system integration, test, and verification in a complex system environment.
• Familiarity with requirements management tools (e.g., DOORS, Jama).
• Experience developing and executing test procedures and test plans.
• Understanding of system lifecycle processes and systems engineering fundamentals.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve integration issues across hardware and software domains.

Schedule

9/80 schedule: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days (totaling 80 hours) and have every other Friday off.