Test and Systems Principal Engineering

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Job Title: Lead, Chief Systems Engineer
L3Harris Technologies is seeking a Radar Chief Systems Engineer to support radar?focused systems within a rapidly growing defense environment. priority assets and requires strong collaboration within a team of experienced professionals.
Ensure systems?engineering processeswhether traditional waterfall or agile/scrumare properly followed and executed across the program.
Maintain the accuracy, integrity, and quality of the programs technical baseline.
Lead development of CONOPS, conduct trade studies, and perform requirements analysis and verification for radar systems and subsystems.
Communicate effectively with internal stakeholders and external partners, including government customers.
Translate customer or product requirements into complete system solutions that balance technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
Conduct functional and timeline analyses.
Perform cost, risk, supportability, and effectiveness analyses across the full system lifecycle (concept through disposal).
Track and ensure performance against key technical performance measures.
Contribute to a dynamic development and integration lab involving both hardware and software systems.
Support or lead technical proposal efforts, including requirements decomposition, system architecture/design, technical writing, risk management, and cost estimation.
Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams, including:
Electrical/RF Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Systems Engineering
Test Engineering
Software Engineering
Specialty Engineering (human factors, safety, reliability, maintainability, logistics)

Travel up to 10% as required.
Bachelors Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. Experience in at least one of the following areas: radar software, signal processing, and/or RF hardware
Secret security clearance required
Previous work experience with phased array radars, high power amplifiers, digital beamforming, SDA mission prosecution, LPAR, HWIL simulation, surveillance, signal processing
Previous work experience with CAMEO Systems modeler/ MagicDraw
Knowledge of Kubernetes environments, in particular experience with Redhat Openshift Containerized Platform (OCP)
Working experience in Agile framework
L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The application window for this position will close on 10/1/2026.
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