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Job Title: Specialist, Systems Engineer

Job Code:  CS20211412-74157

Job Location: Salt Lake City- UT

Job Schedule: 9/80- Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

L3Harris’ Communication Systems segment is currently seeking a Specialist, Systems Engineer, to support our RASOR, Resilient Comms and CEC teams. This position will be based at our Salt Lake City, UT facility. 

Position Overview: 

The Systems Engineer will be responsible for the life-cycle support of data link (wideband, narrowband and/or SATCOM) systems from conceptual development through product phase-out. This includes proposal support, requirements analysis and management, task planning, technical documentation (including generation of Statements of Work and specifications), design oversight participation, design synthesis in a multi-functional engineering environment, build and test support, subcontract control, risk management input, integration and verification test support, system deployment support and in-house technical support during the operational life cycle of the system.   

Essential Responsibilities: 

• Performs research and development in assigned engineering discipline 
• Assists in the planning and conducting of technical projects or portions of projects 
• Employs best practices, tools and techniques and applies processes and methodologies selected to design and develop new products or modify existing products 
• Assists in the capture and/or management of customer and derived requirements, decomposition and assignment of requirements to appropriate functional areas of responsibility, insuring traceability from a verification test matrix back to original customer and system level derived requirements 
• Helps develop technical specifications, interface control documents, test plans and procedures, analyze configuration and processing solutions, and tests conformance to specifications 
• Recommends new or improved design solutions and processes; reviews literature, patents and current industry practices of relevance to assigned project 
• Ensures technical performance, quality, and adherence to schedule 
• Follows processes in conformance with established policies and objectives 
• May coordinate the efforts of technical support personnel and may mentor and/or provide work leadership 
• May provide technical consultation to internal organizations and/or customers 
• May evaluate vendor capabilities to provide required products or services 
• May participate in design reviews 
• Travel when required to support customer installation, demonstrations and general field support 

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.Proficient knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education combined

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with engineering architecture and design concepts along with basic understanding of the engineering practices and procedures required to develop, test and deploy systems. 
• Experience with DoD product development a plus (preferably in military application environment).  
• Knowledge of Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) and Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) standards.
• Experience with Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) technologies and their implementation.
• Presentation and communication skills (verbal/written/visual) 
• Problem solving skills and the ability to meet critical deadlines 
• Understanding in coordination of project(s) and efforts of technical support personnel 
• Ability to productively contribute work, ideas and collaboration as part of a team 
• Ability to obtain a US DoD Security Clearance, as required 

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