Senior Scientist, Systems Engineer - Mission Solution Architect - Top Secret
About The Position
The ACE (Advanced Concept Engineer) serves as the technical liaison between L3Harris and its customers' engineering teams, supporting business development in identifying and creating new business opportunities. The successful candidate will engage with customer, engineering, operations, and management personnel to define and document customer CONOPS and requirements. This role involves performing trade studies, collaborating with L3Harris Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to architect affordable solutions with acceptable risk, and leading proposal efforts. The ACE must consider all customer needs, resources, and constraints, including mission objectives, budget limitations, technical preferences, physics boundaries, and the political climate, to build trust in both the ACE and L3Harris. During program execution, the ACE acts as the technical advocate and customer representative in program reviews. This position requires experience in systems engineering, system architecture development, competitive assessment, project engineering management, and development program execution. The Advanced Concept Engineer should be a subject matter expert in multiple technical domains with an entrepreneurial background. This individual will work closely with business development and senior management to respond to customer needs through technical presentations, white papers, and proposals; requests for proposals, information, and broad agency announcements; and provide market and SME guidance to business strategy and existing development efforts. Demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills, along with the ability to work cross-functionally between a large engineering enterprise and external partners, are essential.
Requirements
- 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 Top Secret Security Clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Active US Government TS/SCI Security Clearance
- Deep knowledge of modern signal processing algorithms such as adaptive filtering, beamforming, detection/estimation theory, and time‑frequency analysis.
- Proven track record of developing or evaluating advanced algorithms for radar, communications, SIGINT, or EW mission applications.
- Ability to conduct high-level trade studies and translate mission needs into technical requirements and system architectures.
- Experience collaborating with government customers, Prime contractors, or DoD research organizations on EW or advanced RF technology programs.
- Previous experience executing DoD/government programs
Responsibilities
- Interpretation of customers’ mission needs with a focus on identifying mission gaps and addressable market
- Advocates customer critical needs to internal stakeholders
- Builds business cases and manages discretionary resources
- Roadmaps organic technology, discretionary funding, external partner capabilities, and customer funded studies to build new business opportunities
- Performs technical and management competitive assessments to clearly communicate why and how the new business opportunities provide value to L3Harris and the customer
- Evaluates customer and operational needs to help define and coordinate high level system performance, physical, functional, and program interface requirements
- Synthesis and life cycle ownership of mission architecture
- Generation of the initial Concept of Operations (CONOPS) or Operational Descriptions Document (ODD)
- Generation of initial system architecture views; decomposing opportunity to addressable configuration items in a compressive value chain framework
- Leads the development of appropriate solutions to customer needs
- Demonstrates broad and deep technical knowledge; accesses Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) as needed
- Determines whether requirements can be met with existing capabilities/designs or if new design requirements must be developed
- Leads and coordinates various analyses to optimize total system of systems and/or system architecture
- Assess and provide direction for make/buy decisions and selection of strategic suppliers
- Establishes the technology integration or migration strategies
- Leads and perform trade studies required to make both tactical and strategic technical decisions for pursuit
- Provides technical coordination between customer, industry, and internal engineering groups to articulate technical issues
- Prepares and presents technical information that addresses specific subjects of interest
- Analyzes and develops recommendations to resolve contractual technical issues
- Maintains a macro view of L3Harris' existing and emerging technologies
- Leads and coordinates pursuit activities such as technical baseline reviews, request for input (RFI) responses, request for proposal (RFP) responses, and white papers.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
