Senior Associate, Software Engineering

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Job Title: Senior Specialist, Software Engineering

Job Code: 42540

Job Location: Palm Bay, Florida, USA

Job Schedule: 9/80

Job Description:

L3Harris Technologies is seeking a Senior Specialist, Software Engineering to support the development of Ground Segment Software. This is a hands-on, on-site role based in Palm Bay, Florida, supporting customer-funded programs within our Surveillance Systems division.

In this role, you will design, develop, integrate, and test deliverable software code. You will also participate in peer reviews and collaborate with other engineers and generate documentation.

The ideal candidate brings basic software skills and experience in space, aerospace, defense, or similarly complex mission-critical environments, along with the ability to work across multidisciplinary teams and customer interfaces.

Essential Functions:

• Design, develop, and maintain advanced software applications for our Satellite Ground Systems. This role involves close collaboration with systems engineers, hardware designers, and other software engineers to deliver reliable and high-performance software solutions.

• Work closely with cross functional members of the engineering organization to develop and evaluate internal/external interfaces between software, and operational performance requirements and design of the overall system

• Support and participate in all phases of the software development life cycle, including requirements analysis, design, implementation, integration, and test

• Develop software test procedures, software programs, and related documentation

• Utilize modeling tools and equipment to establish operating data, conduct experimental tests, and evaluate results

• Participate in peer reviews, identify, track and repair defects

• Utilize Objected-Oriented Programing (OOP) Languages (i.e. C++, C#, Java)

Qualifications:

• • Experience with Linux environments, including scripting, configuration, and software deployment.

• At least 4 years of experience with development in Java.

• 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.

• Active TS/SCI Clearance

• Ability to secure and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) access as required

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience in Ground Segment Software Development within the Space Domain

• • Experience using AI-assisted and agentic software development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, or similar) to improve software design, implementation, debugging, testing, code review, and engineering productivity.

• Familiarity with agentic AI concepts and AI-enabled development workflows, including prompt/context engineering, tool integration (e.g., APIs or MCP), development of reusable agents or skills, and effective validation of AI-generated software artifacts.

• Experience with CI/CD Pipelines

• Experience leading small technical teams

• Experience with Software Containerization

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