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Sr Scientist, Systems Engineer (Space Vehicle Architect)

Palm Bay, Florida; San Diego, California; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Fort Wayne, Indiana; Albany, New York; Rochester, New York

Job ID 15580
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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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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: Sr Scientist, Systems Engineer (Space Vehicle Architect)

Job Code:  15580

Job Location:  Palm Bay, FL, Rochester, NY, Fort Wayne, IN, San Diego, CA, or Colorado Springs, CO


Job Description:

L3Harris' Space and Airborne Systems seeks an Enterprise Space Vehicle Architect to join our growing team. The person in this position will be deployed as a Enterprise Space Vehicle Architect across the space sector at L3Harris, responsible for the technical strategy and baseline for proposal pursuits. While the focus of this role is primarily on the front end of the program in the Capture, Proposal, the baseline established must also consider the Program Execution and Operations phase. This role is based heavily in the pre-award concept development, initial architecture and development of interfaces and component requirements through preliminary design phase. The Enterprise Space Vehicle Architect will work closely with the program Mission CSE and Space Vehicle Engineer to collaborate with all functional disciplines during new pursuits to establish a technical baseline.

Essential Functions: 

  • Work closely with Business Development and Customer facing teams to formulate space vehicle concepts for integrated spacecraft busses, mission payloads and communications payloads to meet mission objectives
  • Ability to perform top level mission analysis and trades such as conops, DITL, coverage maps, revisit rates, etc in support of mission formulation
  • Perform top level system and subsystem sizing in multiple space vehicle disciplines: thermal, propulsion, attitude control, orbit dynamics, electrical power, avionics, mechanical, telecom, etc
  • Lead agile technical teams in performing detail system and subsystem trades and analyses
  • Incorporate lessons learned from existing programs into future baselines to improve engineering excellence and program execution


Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 15 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 19 years of prior related experience
  • Active TS/SCI security clearance
  • Experience in following areas:
    • Front-end concept development for space vehicle technologies
    • Technical response on mission or space vehicle white papers, RFI, and RFP efforts
    • System-level requirements verification including allocation, flowdown, analysis, testing, & demonstration
    • Strong understanding in space vehicle design considerations in various orbital regimes: radiation, space charging, thermal, telecom, power, propulsion, disposal, etc
    • System level orbital analysis to optimize coverage and revisit times
    • Familiarity with System-level performance analysis (e.g., image analysis, thermal analysis, structural analysis, end-to-end performance, reliability analysis)
    • Hardware/Software integration, testing, and troubleshooting
  • Experience in mentoring and growing technical staff
  • Experience balancing technical, cost and schedule requirements


Preferred Additional Skills:

  • Familiarity with Digital Engineering and MBSE tools such as DOORs, CAMEO, CREO, JIRA
  • Track record of leading technical teams in mission and/or space vehicle pursuits including RFI, RFP responses, resulting in contract award
  • Accustomed to leading technical engagement with internal and external customers in formal presentations as well as informal brainstorming sessions
  • Experience in authoring technical volumes, publications, white papers, intellectual property
  • Experience with system-level requirements verification including allocation, flowdown, analysis, testing, & demonstration
  • Well versed in functions, responsibilities and interconnectivities between Space Segment, Ground Segment and Launch Segment

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role is $153,500 - $285,500. 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 November 30, 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.

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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