Scientist, Software Engineer
Salt Lake City, Utah
Job ID 15786Overview
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.
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- Innovative
- Technical
- Influential
- Critical Thinker
- Analytical
- Detail Oriented
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I love my job because every day there’s a new problem to tackle, a new skill to learn and an awesome team that has my back.
Heather S., Engineer
L3Harris Work Perks
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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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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
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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, Software Engineer
Job Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Job Code: 15786
Work Schedule: 9x80
Essential Functions:
- Drive critical decisions about the high-level structure of a software system (architecture), its main components and their interfaces and interactions
- Responsible for guiding software product development through analysis, design, development, testing and integration
- May serve in a customer facing IPT lead technical role for software focused discussions
- Participate in overall bid strategy discussions, cost estimates, and generation of technical documentation artifacts to support software related proposal efforts
- Design software architecture with consideration for full product and product line performance, integration, reliability, usability, maintainability, scalability, etc.
- Help define product roadmaps and software quality metrics
- Raise level of software functional organization proficiency in DevSecOps, CI/CD, Agile Methodology
- Recommend tactics and strategies that directly impact the achievement of overall business or functional results
- Propose technical standards, including coding standards, tools, or platforms
- Provide input to project schedule, financial and technical goals as appropriate
- Analyze and assist in the development of requirements flowed down by Systems Engineering
- Oversee and/or participate on a software team to design, document, develop and test software in alignment with a unified architectural vision
- Help resolve any disputes/design conflicts and make tradeoffs when necessary keeping product performance in mind
- Identify risks and propose mitigations when necessary
- Participate in software design/code reviews
- Participate in Integration efforts/Bug fixes/optimization of existing software systems
- Participate in estimating efforts for programs
- Deliver highly technical messages/presentations communicating at the level of the audience
Basic 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 software related experience
Preferred Additional Skills:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or related field
- 12+ years of experience developing software applications with an object-oriented programming language
- Demonstrated ability leading small to medium sized software development teams through all phases of the software development lifecycle
- Broad, extensive and modern knowledge of the software development process and its technologies
- Understanding of software metrics and performance measures
- Experience estimating and justifying size/cost/schedule of a software development effort
- Experience developing and working against a schedule
- Experience with executing throughout the full development life cycle including requirements flow-down and allocation, design, development, test, and sell-off
- Experience with Agile and Waterfall Methodologies
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.