Sr. Specialist, Systems Engineering (System/Software)

About the role

L3Harris Technologies Power Systems is an agile defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions for the US Navy Shipbuilding programs. With capabilities in ship control systems, manufacturing and turn-key ship overhauls that meet customers’ mission-critical needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead and represent the organization on technical aspects of assigned projects, including peer reviews and resolution of difficult technical issues.
• Career development and mentoring of junior engineers.
• Coordinate system level requirements internally and among subcontractors and suppliers.
• Support evaluating, planning, and estimation of tasks.
• Generate design review materials and communicate design decisions.
• Adhere to budget and schedule commitments.
• Develop subsystem architecture artifacts, including block diagrams, functional allocations, interfaces, and timing diagrams.
• Create system and subsystem level specifications.
• Generate Test Plans for systems and subsystems to ensure validation of requirements.
• Comfortable working in a multi-disciplined engineering group to achieve results.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Travel up to ~10% as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and minimum 6 years prior experience or Master’s Degree with a minimum of 4 years’ experience in Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
• Experience with system engineering principles including requirements writing, modeling, and verification testing.
• Experience with C programming and familiarity with Assembly.
• Experience writing systems and software test procedures.
• Knowledge of systems utilizing embedded software. Up to date on current Systems Engineering trends, technology, and tools (including DOORS and JIRA).
• Proven track record of working through customer requirements to technical requirements to product solutions.
• Experience reading PCB designs.
• Working knowledge of standard system engineering processes such as: MIL-STD-499, EIA-632, IEEE 1220 or ISO 15288.
• Technical writing experience, including experience generating and presenting technical documents to internal and external customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's and minimum 6 years prior experience or Master’s Degree with a minimum of 4 years’ experience in Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
• At least 4 years of experience with systems engineering background, and knowledge of lifecycle and standards.
• Experience with system engineering principles including requirements writing, modeling, and verification testing.
• Experience with C programming and familiarity with Assembly.
• Experience writing systems and software test procedures.
• Knowledge of systems utilizing embedded software. Up to date on current Systems Engineering trends, technology, and tools (including DOORS and JIRA).
• Proven track record of working through customer requirements to technical requirements to product solutions.
• Experience reading PCB designs.
• Working knowledge of standard system engineering processes such as: MIL-STD-499, EIA-632, IEEE 1220 or ISO 15288.
• Technical writing experience, including experience generating and presenting technical documents to internal and external customers.

Skills

• Active Secret clearance.
• Experience overseeing the systems/software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Experience with development of high-power electrical devices and interfaces.
• Experience with PCB development and test jigs and test utilities for production.
• Experience with administering projects using Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket.
• Experience with embedded processors including ARM, INTEL, TI TMS320 DSP micros.
• Experience with JTAG/ICE programming and build versus runtime software image verification methods (CRC, HASH128,256…).
• Experience with various code development tools:- Visual Studio IDE, Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio IDE, Python IDE, Keil uVision IDE, Intel Quartis FPGA IDE.
• Experience administering Software and Systems configuration management Server:- Atlassian Jira, Fisheye and Crucible Server and Clients management, SVN Server and Clients management, PostGRE SQL database, IBM DOORs, GIT and BitBucket.
• Strong ability to communicate at different levels depending upon target audience. Examples include technical presentations to current customers as well as defense of proposals for future business.

Benefits

• Health and disability insurance.
• 401(k) match.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• EAP.
• Education assistance.
• Paid time off.
• Company-paid holidays.

Pay

The salary range for this role is $106,500 - $197,500. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits.