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Scientist, Systems Engineer (ACE - Avionics) - Part Time

Palm Bay, Florida

Job ID 15283
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Overview

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.

  • Part Time
  • Level: Experienced
  • Location: On Site
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  • Strategic
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L3Harris Work Perks

  • 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
  • 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
  • Well-Being

    • 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 – Avionics) – Part Time

Job Code: 15283

Job Location: Palm Bay, FL


Job Description:

L3Harris Corporation is seeking a Senior Scientist Advanced Concepts Engineer (ACE) for Avionics at our Melbourne/Palm Bay, FL location. This is an opportunity to take on unique challenges, while building on your extensive open systems processing expertise. Your professionally recognized skills and experience will deliver vital contributions to various processing missions. This is a multi-dimensional role that will include ‘front end’ communications with customers relating to technology and applications, and internal technology leadership through road mapping, solution architecting, and program consulting. 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:

  • Meet with our internal and external customer base to understand needs, requirements, budgets and timeframes to develop compliant technical solutions that meet their needs and budget limitations.
  • Understand and build relationships with the stakeholders and decision makers in the customer community to solidify our position as a trusted advisor.
  • Architect electronics solutions for military avionics in visualization, data loaders, and processors.
  • Work multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment, while adapting quickly to address emergent proposal and project priorities.
  • Develop technical documentation in support of proposal gate review activities.
  • Ensure the logical and systematic development of total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints mapped against customer requirements and product capabilities.
  • Develop concepts of operation (CONOPS) and use cases.
  • Develop technology roadmaps and advocate for investment of discriminating technology with clear deliverables.
  • Work within and lead multi-disciplinary technical teams of subject matter experts (SMEs) to develop solutions meeting customer requirements.
  • Communicate technical information to diverse audiences, including customers with disparate acumen.
  • Author & co-author whitepapers to document advanced concept solutions that address emergent requirements; and
  • Travel to meet in person with customers and strategic partners for current and future development opportunities

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 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.
  • Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Computer, Software or Systems Engineering (or similar technical discipline)
  • Experience executing DoD/government programs
  • Experience with:
    • Open-systems mission processor requirements and architecture development
    • Data Storage Solutions
    • Digital Mapping Solutions
    • Open standards including OCS, OMS, SOSA, HOST, MOSA.

Preferred Additional Skills:

  • Demonstrated leadership and/or entrepreneurial success
  • Experience with classified government programs and acquisition
  • Proven and effective communication skills, interpersonal skills, and customer focus

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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