Lead Systems Engineer (S&S)
Mason, Ohio
Job ID 20452Overview
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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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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- Fertility treatment
- Subsidized backup childcare and eldercare
- Adoption assistance - $5,000 per adoption/$15,000 per employee
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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: Lead Systems Engineer
Job Code: 20452
Job Location: Mason, OH
Schedule: 9/80 (with every other Friday off)
Job Description:
As a Systems Engineer Lead in our IR sensors business area, you will have the opportunity to work various programs solving our customer’s most difficult technical challenges. A Development SME, who supports planning activities to address development activity processes and procedures. You will be the technical lead of the program team, perform technical planning, design, analysis, implementation, system integration, validation and verification. Analyses are performed at all levels to include concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance, and disposal. This position supports the Integrated Mission Systems (IMS) Segment, a great team of talented professionals with world class technical expertise who take a collaborative approach to engineering and enjoy working together. We have a long history of innovative and exceptional performance; we have earned our place as a trusted provider to our customers.
Essential Functions:
- Systems engineering lead for a large EO/IR (Electro-Optical/Infra-Red) sensor system.
- Lead technical planning, system integration, validation, and verification activities in support of programs and development efforts.
- Expected to coach / mentor others on the team.
- Judgment and Decision Making — Consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate solution.
- Systems Analysis — Determine how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes / performance.
- Systems Evaluation — Identify measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance relative to the goals of the system.
- Lead across system development lifecycle.
- Customer Interaction – Technical Point of Contact to our customers and our suppliers.
- Must have the ability to obtain a DoD security cleatance
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Electronics, Computer, Physics, or related Engineering discipline with a minimum of 9 years of prior relevant experience or Graduate Degree with a minimum of 7 years prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
- Must be a US Citizen
Preferred Additional Skills:
- Demonstrated experience leading a team or project within the EO/IR (Electro-Optical/Infra-Red) sensor field
- Demonstrated experience in a technical displine supporting EO/IR sensor or component work
- Experience writing BOEs and supporting proposals
- Demonstrated experience in Model Based Systems Engineering
- Demonstrated experience in the architecture, specification, implementation, simulation, test, verification, validation, and debugging
- Demonstrated complex problem solving and decision making — Able to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions; able to consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate solution
- Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work well within and outside of the organization including customers, vendors, and leadership with minimal oversight
- Prior systems engineering experience on at least two DoD (or similar) programs, with at least one program being a medium scale complex system or subsystem (i.e., > 10 System Engineers and/or >$15M).
- Knowledge of military and/or NASA component specifications, design processes, and hardware test/verification procedures.
- Active DoD Security Clearance
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