Scientist, Software Engineer Astrodynamics
Chantilly, Virginia; Colorado Springs, Colorado
Job ID 15911Overview
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 in Software with L3Harris 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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- Level: Experienced
- Location: On Site
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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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- 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)
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- Legal plan for you, your family, and parents
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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 the Trusted Disruptor in the defense industry. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.
Job Title: Scientist, Software Engineering Astrodynamics
Job Code: 15911
Job Location: Chantilly, VA or Colorado Springs, CO
Job Description:
L3Harris is looking for a self-starting, team-oriented Senior Software Engineer with subject matter expertise in the Space domain and Astrodynamics field to lead our dynamic software and systems development teams. The selected candidate will be on a key Senior Technical Lead role of a program that is building a large-scale enterprise application in the national security space domain using web technologies, distributed computation and storage frameworks, and sophisticated, cutting-edge domain analytics, with the system hosted on virtualized and cloud-computing platforms. The selected candidate will also provide technical leadership to the team who is performing analysis with software tools, modeling and simulation. The Lead Software SME will guide the software team, program leadership and the customers by aligning development needs with the mission and customer expectations and requirements.
Essential Functions:
- Provide technical direction to software development team by creating models, simulations, and analysis tools to support national security space analysis activities.
- Lead technical planning, design & generation of test data, system integration, verification and validation, and support test activities.
- Responsible for providing expertise and direction to algorithm development, quantitative analysis, orbit determination, decision analysis, capability analysis
- Provide technical guidance in the system engineering requirements analysis and trade studies, analyses of alternatives, design of experiments, and architecture analysis in support of the software development team.
- Provide leadership and foster collaboration with engineers from various engineering disciplines to determine and develop functional and non-functional requirements of new and existing capabilities.
- Providing technical guidance and assisting the development team throughout the software development life cycle.
- Responsible for Customer interfacing to ensure inputs and needs are communicated to the project managers on programmatic and technical deliverables.
- Leads technical exchanges and interactions with customers.
- Performs additional leadership duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Qualifications:
- TS/SCI and would need to consent to CI Polygraph security clearance.
- B.S. degree Software, Aerospace, Space Systems or other Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or a related discipline and minimum of 12 years of prior related experience; or 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.
- Experience with working with software development teams and associated Agile development processes.
- Experience with Astrodynamics Software applications.
- Experience in supporting modeling, simulation, and analysis of software systems.
- Experience leading technical teams.
Preferred Additional Skills:
- Experience in supporting modeling, simulation, and analysis of national security space related problems desired.
- Experience in national security space operations.
- Effective organization level communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
- Software: STK/Astrogator/ODTK, Astrodynamics Standards, SOAP.
- Experience with Safe Agile.
- Prior software development experience with Python, Java, MATLAB, RHEL/Linux.
- CI Polygraph
In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role is VA area is $155,500 - $288,500 and CO $135,000 - $251,000. 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.The application window for this requisition is anticipated to close December 1, 2024.
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.
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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.
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