Specialist, Systems Engineering

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Job Title: Specialist, Systems Engineering

Job Code: 40110

Job Location: Greenville, TX

Job Schedule: 9/80 Employees work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked - and have every other Friday off.

Role is contingent upon contract award (estimated July 2026)

Job Description:

L3Harris Technologies is seeking a Specialist, Systems Engineer/Architect. The ideal candidate is responsible for the daily technical and operational activities of a highperformance System Integration Laboratory (SIL) environment supporting advanced airborne ISR ground exploitation systems. This role combines handson technical oversight, upgrade, installation and maintenance of the system. This position has a direct impact on system readiness, mission success, and the continuous improvement of SIL workflows and capabilities.

Essential Functions:

• Interfaces with the supervisor, customer, software development engineers, project engineering, and program management to determine SIL architecture and support requirements.
• Assists in planning / executing periodic SIL upgrades to new equipment and software configurations.
• Review and evaluate system diagrams to ensure design details trace to system requirements.
• Understand physical architecture incorporating voice and data capability across multiple security domains.
• Install, test, troubleshoot, and verify system upgrades and system infrastructure to meet customer performance expectations.
• Translate the voice of the customer into system level requirements.
• Understand test, integration, verification, and validation planning.
• Author and execute effective verification test procedures ensuring system performance and capabilities meet system requirements.
• Perform hands-on test, integration, and verification of software and/or hardware.
• Monitors ongoing test/integration activities and provides technical support, troubleshooting and recommendations for repair or replacement of defective or outdated equipment.
• Familiar with installation and configuration of Virtual Machines (VMs) in a Linux environment.
• Starts up all SIL equipment and verifies system readiness for testing.
• Excellent written, oral, and presentation communications skills.
• Candidate must be willing and able to work a flexible job schedule to include occasional overtime.
• Candidate must be willing to travel both CONUS and OCONUS up to 10% of the time.
• The candidate will be required to obtain and maintain CompTIA Security+ certification.
• Active Secret Clearance at the time of hire with the ability to obtain a Top Secret with SCI.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related systems engineering experience.
• Graduate Degree or equivalent with 2 years of prior related systems engineering experience.
• In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 8 years of prior related systems engineering experience.
• Demonstrated understanding of hardware test strategies, fault isolation, automated tests, use of diagnostic test equipment, and generating and interpreting test requirements.
• Demonstrated experience in systems engineering, systems architecture, systems analysis and design, system performance modeling, integration, and/or model-based systems engineering.
• Demonstrated experience operating in a Linux environment.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Active Top Secret with SCI security clearance.
• CompTIA Security+ Certification.
• Experienced with DOORS and/or Jira.

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