Scientist, Systems Engineer (ACE - Optical Communications)
Carlsbad, California; San Diego, California; Palm Bay, Florida; Herndon, Virginia
Job ID 13673Overview
On the L3Harris team, your job is to secure the world. We don’t work here just for the advanced technology and equipment: We work here because we know what – and who – we’re protecting. From families to the intelligence community, and from our climate to our men and women in uniform – we’re making the world a safer place. Working with the L3Harris's engineering team, you'll join our team of qualified, diverse individuals and work in a fast-paced environment with high expectations, global scope, and a collaborative team setting.
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L3Harris Work Perks
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Health
- Medical with a High Deductible and traditional PPO plan options, as well as, vision and a full array of supplemental health benefits
- A doctors' service to help with referrals and second opinions for you, your family, and parents
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Family
- 4 weeks of paid parental leave for moms and dads
- Fertility treatment
- Subsidized backup childcare and eldercare
- Adoption assistance - $5,000 per adoption/$15,000 per employee
- Pet insurance
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- No cap to your PTO time (for exempt employees)
- Dress for your day - wear what works for you at work
- Legal plan for you, your family, and parents
- Discount platform
Job Description
L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.
L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across space, air, land, sea and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 50,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries.
Job Title: Scientist, Systems Engineer (ACE – Optical Communications)
Job Code: 13673
Job Location: Palm Bay, FL; Herndon, VA; Carlsbad, CA; San Diego, CA
Job Description:
L3Harris Corporation is seeking an Advanced Concepts Engineer (ACE) with Optical Communication expertise to support space / airborne / multi-domain programs from Palm Bay, FL; Herndon, VA; San Diego, CA; or Carlsbad, CA. This is an opportunity to take on unique challenges, while building on your extensive knowledge of free-space optical communication networks. Your professionally recognized skills and experience will deliver vital contributions to mission critical solutions that help protect the U.S.A. and our allies. This is a multi-dimensional role that will include ‘front end’ communications with customers relating to technology and applications addressing continually evolving mission scenarios and emergent threats. Your technical and business acumen make you a ‘go to’ resource to support opportunity development, shaping, pursuit, capture, winning, execution, and delivery of key programs for the business area and parent corporation.
Essential Functions:
The Free-Space Optical Comm ACE provides the strategic technical leadership to draw on L3Harris' technical competencies to meet the business needs of L3Harris and its customers. You will support the Space and Airborne Systems Segments’ expansion strategy and our DoD and Intelligence Community customers to advance our capabilities across existing and new mission areas. We develop world-class space and airborne communications capabilities in support of our customer’s most challenging missions and seek to identify cross-business synergies to align these capabilities within highly complex mission spaces.
The Free-Space Optical Comm ACE role bridges between our engineering, program management and business development functions. This critical position will drive innovation and technical execution of high-performance communication system products and solutions that support US National Security interests. The ideal individual will thrive in a matrix organization, and possess a strong understanding of system engineering, multidisciplinary processes, technical principles, and practical techniques in addition to having a proven track record of successful technical achievement and leadership. The ACE takes into account all of the needs, resources, and constraints, including the customer mission, budget limitations, technical preferences, physics boundaries, and the political climate, in a manner that creates trust in the ACE as well as L3Harris. The successful candidate will guide technology innovation; support technology and mission roadmap development; promote program execution excellence; and source innovative concepts for novel solutioning within emergent problem spaces.
This is a Full-Time position in Palm Bay, FL; northern Virginia; or southern CA.
Position may require up to 20% travel.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 12 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior related experience.
- Current TS/SCI Security Clearance
- Experience working with US Government customers
- Experience with engineering processes and the ability to adapt innovative solutions to emergent missions
- Prior or current experience in business development and customer interaction
- Experience leading and collaborating with multi-discipliary diverse teams, including remote sites and with internal and external customers
Preferred Additional Skills:
- Highly motivated self-starter that can operate with minimal oversight in diverse environments
- Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, & presentation)
- Demonstrated entrepreneurial success
- Experience with modems and optical communication waveforms and standards
- Experience with Agile Development principles
- Ability to proactively detect, identify and address issues quickly
- Experience analyzing, developing, and integrating electronic systems in areas such as remote sensing, aerospace payloads, mission computing, communications, networking, robotics, and cyber / electronic warfare
In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in California is $147,000.00 - $273,000.00. 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, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain a security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens. In addition, applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment may be subject to government security investigation(s) and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
By submitting your résumé for this position, you understand and agree that L3Harris Technologies may share your résumé, as well as any other related personal information or documentation you provide, with its subsidiaries and affiliated companies for the purpose of considering you for other available positions.
L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.