Specialist, Systems Engineering

L3Harris•Ashburn, VA

23h•Onsite

About The Position

L3Harris Advanced Effects is seeking a Specialist, Systems Engineer Technician to join its Integration and Test team supporting a family of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). The role is responsible for defining, decomposing, allocating, managing, verifying, and validating hardware and software requirements for technical products and systems. It also includes conducting component trade studies, integrating systems, and characterizing system performance. This is a mission-focused, highly technical position requiring strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills. Duties include event planning, system preparation, troubleshooting, maintenance, training, and customer support. The employee must be able to work independently or as part of a team under varying environmental conditions. The position is onsite in Ashburn, Virginia, with a 9/80 schedule: employees work nine days out of every 14 days, totaling 80 hours, and have every other Friday off. Up to 10% travel may be required. The employee must be able to obtain and maintain DoD security clearances as required and lift up to 20 pounds.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior relevant experience; or a graduate degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience; or, in lieu of a degree, a minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.
Active DoD Secret security clearance with a current five-year update.
Ability to obtain and maintain DoD security clearances as required.
Ability to lift up to 20 pounds.
Up to 10% travel may be required.

Nice To Haves

Experience with and understanding of aerospace systems, particularly development of integrated hardware/software products.
Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering.
Experience with MATLAB, LabView, Python, or C/C++/C#.
Experience in unmanned aircraft or guided weapon systems.
Experience in radar systems, other sensor modalities, or RF systems.
Experience managing requirements using DOORS.
Experience with proposal development, including generating bases of estimates.
Experience developing use cases from customer objectives and concepts of operations.
Experience using Microsoft Office products.
Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate in a multidisciplinary, diverse, and dynamic team environment.
Systems engineering experience involving design and integration of complex hardware/software systems, definition of multiple interfaces, and tradeoffs among multiple solution options.
Hands-on experience with system integration, engineering testing, and system performance characterization.

Responsibilities

Define, flow down, and maintain traceability of requirements for complex electronic systems, using agile product and software development and model-based systems engineering processes.
Lead and perform integration activities for new designs and updates.
Develop integration and verification plans and procedures.
Coordinate integration testing to verify system operation and coordinate with Test Engineers to ensure tests are properly executed.
Lead rapid learning cycles across requirements development, design, build, integration and test, and verification and validation.
Lead technical oversight by addressing technical issues during production and implementing solutions.
Identify system design and production-process risks and develop mitigation strategies.
Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance and training.
Escalate issues to the IPTL when unable to resolve them.
Collaborate across engineering and operations and interact with vendors to resolve technical issues.
Conduct risk assessments and lessons-learned sessions, applying findings to future deliveries.
Gather feedback, identify improvement areas, and implement improvements.
Perform system design synthesis for complex electronic systems, including processes and testing interfaces.
Conduct trade studies on systems and components.
Create and maintain technical data packages, system specifications, design documents, maintenance plans, sparing plans, and verification procedures.
Analyze data from design verification test efforts.
Develop and run simulations and other analysis tools to predict system performance in different environments.
Perform other duties as required.