Senior Associate, Systems Engineering

L3Harris Technologies•City of Rochester, NY

1d•$70,500 - $130,500•Onsite

About The Position

As a member of the MCC Engineering Field Test Validation Team, this engineer will contribute to the company’s success by ensuring L3Harris product and system requirements are comprehensively verified and validated with a user-focused approach across both bench-top and over-the-air operational environments. This role is responsible for planning, developing, and executing verification and validation activities for complex integrated systems, including advanced networking technologies, in representative mission and operational scenarios. Responsibilities include bench-top validation of hardware, software, and system-of-systems implementations; development of test architectures, tools, automation, and methodologies to enable rigorous product and system qualification; and identification and implementation of innovative solutions that support release readiness, often supplementing or replacing field validation where technically appropriate. The position requires thorough evaluation of system performance, interfaces, interoperability, and mission effectiveness to ensure products and systems are qualified for deployment and meet customer, program, and quality requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree and minimum of 2 years of prior relevant experience or Graduate Degree or equivalent with 0 to 2 years of prior related experience

Nice To Haves

Some familiarity with RF communications and propagation.
Knowledge of / experience with networking including TCP/IP, LAN and WAN technologies.
Positive attitude, openness to new ideas, willingness to learn new tools, and a strong motivation to positively impact the performance and work experience of the team.
Strong documentation skills for test development, test enhancements, and status reporting.
Strong adaptive learning skills, able to learn quickly, retain knowledge, and utilize resources to work productively and efficiently both independently and on a team on a wide range of tasks.
Effective communications skills across a variety of employee levels.
Ability to support multiple projects at one time.
Prior military or professional communications experience including radio operation and/or repair/troubleshooting.
Familiarity with Tactical Communications technologies and applications.
Ability to mentor / train team members on new technology, technical concepts, and test configuration and procedure execution.

Responsibilities

Designing and configuring lab-based test environments to accurately emulate operational, mission, and field conditions for product and system qualification.
Identifying, creating, and implementing test tools, automation frameworks, scripts, and innovative validation methods to improve coverage, repeatability, efficiency, and technical rigor
Performing integration, regression, stress, negative, and troubleshooting test activities to characterize system behavior, identify defects, and assess release readiness
Collaborating with systems, software, and hardware engineering and field test team members to ensure bench-top validation effectively supplements or, where appropriate, replaces field validation
Refining team procedures, practices, and collection and reporting of performance data to ensure continuous improvement in the execution of tests.
May also include occasionally supporting new business pursuit activities including demos, proposals, generation of applications info (e.g. diagrams, write-ups, etc.), and/or occasional travel and/or customer interaction to support these activities.