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Specialist, System Engineer

Greenville, Texas

Job ID 17125
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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: Specialist, Systems Engineering

Job Code: 17125

Job Location: Greenville, TX

Job Schedule: 9/80

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.

About L3Harris Technologies:

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 47,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries.

Job Description:

The Specialist, Systems Engineer (SE) performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, and troubleshooting for total systems and or subsystems. The Specialist SE is part of a team that supports the requirements, design, development, test, and integration of complex, specialized hardware/software systems installed on ground and airborne communication platforms. 

Essential Functions:

  • Understand physical architectures incorporating voice, video, and data capability across multiple security domains
  • Review and evaluate electrical wiring diagrams to ensure design details trace to system requirements
  • Understand test, integration, verification, and validation planning
  • Write effective verification test procedures ensuring system performance and capabilities meet system requirements
  • Translate the voice of the customer into system level requirements
  • Perform requirement traceability
  • Develop and evaluate trade studies for accuracy and completeness
  • Write subsystem specifications based on system level requirements
  • Evaluate alternative solutions and establish preliminary system designs
  • Prepare effective presentations to communicate technical information to non-technical professionals
  • Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications:  

  • U.S. Citizenship
  • A minimum active DoD Security Clearance at the Secret Level
  • Ability to obtain/maintain a Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance 
  • Bachelor’s Degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience
  • OR Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience
  • OR in lieu of a degree a minimum of 8 years of related experience
  • A minimum of 4 years of hands-on experience with testing, integrating, and verifying software and/or hardware in a multi-domain mobile airborne data-link, video, and voice systems environment
  • A minimum of 4 years of experience with Aircraft communication system integration and communications ground/flight test support
  • A minimum of 4 years of experience with configuration and integration of aircraft RF and satellite communications systems, or cryptographic equipment

Preferred Additional Skills:

  • Working knowledge of LAN and VOIP protocols to include IP routing
  • Agile experience 
  • Security+ Professional Certification
  • Model-based Systems Engineering and Simulation experience
  • Troubleshooting and multi-level testing for RF applications
  • Knowledge of requirement traceability methods and purpose
  • Knowledge of the systems engineering trade study process
  • Experience conducting verification testing
  • Experience working with subcontractors and U.S. Government customers
  • Experience developing, authoring, and implementing system test plans
  • Engineering efforts involving FAA-certified general category aircraft
  • Excellent written, oral, and presentation communications skills
  • Flight qualified preferred, ability to become flight certified
  • An active DoD Security Clearance at the Top Secret/SCI Level

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.

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