Automation Software Engineer
Forest, Virginia
Job ID 18304Overview
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.
- Full Time
- 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)
- Dress for your day - wear what works for you at work
- 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: Automation Software Engineer
Job Code: 18304
Job Location: Lynchburg, VA
Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off
Job Description:
The Software Engineer will join a product development team chartered with developing creative solutions to automate functions performed by internal engineering teams and client facing groups. This role will develop applications and tools that reduce the total cost of deploying a mission-critical communications system.
Essential Functions:
- Perform requirements analysis, test analysis, and system verification.
- Work with team leads and engineers to perform requirements analysis, test analysis, and system verification testing support.
- Assist development in designing and implementing effective software testability into new and existing products supporting continual process/quality improvement.
- Perform feature and regression testing on new software and hardware in order to obtain the needed knowledge to automate a given test scenario.
- Automate Tests scenarios using primarily LabVIEW and TestStand
- Create automated tests as required for new features and regression testing.
- Work in an Automation development team to develop core automation drivers to control test instrumentation, Harris products, and other needed test interfaces.
- Create and maintain test and engineering related documents for various projects. This may include software design specifications, Driver design specifications, User Manuals, and Hardware schematics, among other items
- Configure and maintain test beds
- Maintain and ensure calibration of test equipment
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering with minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.
- Minimum 1 year experience using LabVIEW and TestStand for test automation
Preferred Additional Skills:
- Communicates effectively, both written and orally
- Ability to troubleshoot and resolve automation hardware and automation software
- Must be able to complete assignments independently and in a team environment
- Must be a self-starter with the ability to work well under schedule pressures and balance priorities.
- Work with development and other cross-functional teams to ensure effective and timely software system integration and verification
- Collaborate with Project Management and technical resources to ensure that the strategy, planning and delivery approach achieves the desired results
- Test automation with scripting language and software such as:
- LabVIEW and TestStand experience
- Python, C++
- SQL Database, report creation tools
- HP Quality Center (HPQC), ClearQuest, DOORS, PowerBI, SmartBear TestComplete
- National Instruments CLAD, CLD or CTD certification
- Experience with Automation Hardware, Test Equipment, National Instruments Hardware
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline experience (ex:Jenkins, Artifactory, GIT, etc.)
- Experience with Agile methodologies and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Experience with Microsoft Office products such as Excel and Word.
- Experience with wireless air interface protocols
- Experience with RF and Networking test techniques
- Experience with USB, Ethernet, WiFi and Personal Area Network protocols a plus
- Experience with Land Mobile Radio, Radio Frequency technologies, and LTE
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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