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Job Title: Senior Scientist, Electronic Warfare Systems Engineering

Job Code: SYP7

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 seeking a Senior Electronic Warfare Systems Engineering Lead for the Next Generation Jammer-Low Band (NGJ-LB) program. This position reports directly to the Engineering Director/Chief Engineer of the NGJ-LB program. 

Position Overview: 

This position will be responsible for leading key system design efforts for the NGJ-LB program.  Key responsibilities include detailed design of the mission processing, mentoring other architects and developers, model-based design, planning of engineering efforts in an agile and earned-value process environment, system-level hardware and software/VHDL testing, metrics tracking & reporting, and future related proposal efforts.

The NGJ-LB program will replace the Navy’s legacy ALQ-99 Tactical Jamming System hosted on the EA-18G Growler aircraft. More details about the program can be found at the following link: 

https://www.l3harris.com/all-capabilities/next-generation-jammer-low-band-ngj-lb

Essential Responsibilities: 

• Broad understanding and experience in designing new electronic system development, including all major aspects of Systems Engineering.
• Deep technical understanding of at least one discipline in the Electronic Warfare domain, such as digital signal processing, Software and VHDL development, RF electronics and antennas.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor technical development efforts
• Highly organized, with the ability to manage, track, and report relevant progress metrics.
• Experience identifying risks and proposing mitigations when necessary.
• Experience delivering highly technical messages/presentations communicating at the level of the audience.
• DoD proposal experience.

Required 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 DoD Secret clearance. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Model-based design experience, preferably with SysML using Cameo Systems Modeler.
• Electronic Warfare or Sensor signal processing experience.
• Agile software development leadership experience.
• Experience leading development and integration test teams.
• Software or Hardware Description Language (HDL) design and development experience.
• Earned Value Management experience in both budgeting and schedule planning.
• Active DoD Top Secret clearance.

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