Lead, Systems Engineer

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Job Title: Lead, Systems Engineer
Job Code: 42191
Job Location: Salt Lake City- UT
Job Schedule: 9/80 Employees work 9 out of every 14 days- totaling 80 hours working- and have every other Friday off

L3Harris' Spectrum Superiority segment is currently 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.

Position Overview:

L3Harris is seeking a Systems Engineer to lead the life-cycle support of systems from conceptual development through product phase-out. This position encompasses proposal support, requirements analysis and management, technical documentation, design oversight participation, and design synthesis in a multi-functional engineering environment.

The role maintains a strong focus on Integration and Test (I&T) to support the development, verification, and validation of complex systems. The Systems Engineer will be responsible for planning and executing systems integration activities, developing test strategies, and ensuring system performance meets defined requirements across hardware, software, and networked components.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Lead 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, as well as the decomposition and assignment of requirements to appropriate functional areas of responsibility, 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, and apply processes and methodologies selected to design and develop new products or modify existing products
• Ensure technical performance, quality, and adherence to schedule
• Follow processes in conformance with established policies and objectives
• Evaluate vendor capabilities and manage subcontracts to secure required products or services
• Lead design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, etc.)
• Availability to travel 20-40% of the time to customer and subcontractor sites in support of technical meetings and verification activities

Required Qualifications:

• An ABET (EAC/CAC) accredited Bachelor's Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 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 Presentation and communication skills
• Problem solving skills and the ability to meet critical deadlines
• Understand coordination of projects and roles of technical support personnel
• Ability to work independently
• Experience in Model Based Systems Engineering
• System Security Testing experience
• Free Space Optics 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

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