Sr. Specialist, SATCOM Systems Engineer 1

L3HHCM20 • Salt Lake City, UT

1d • Onsite

About The Position

L3Harris’ Communication Systems segment is currently seeking a Senior Specialist Systems Engineer to join our team. This position will be based at our Salt Lake City facility. The Sr. Specialist Systems Engineer will be responsible for the lifecycle support of data link systems from conceptual development through product phase-out. This includes proposal support, requirements analysis and management, task planning, technical documentation, design oversight participation, design synthesis in a multi-functional engineering environment, build and test support, risk management input, integration and verification test support, system deployment support, and in-house technical support during the operational lifecycle of the system. The role encompasses systems engineering activities across hardware, software, and integrated system solutions, ensuring technical excellence and alignment with customer requirements, industry standards, and organizational objectives. The Sr. Specialist Systems Engineer will apply systems engineering principles and methodologies to drive technical decision-making, facilitate stakeholder collaboration, and ensure successful delivery of engineering solutions throughout all phases of the system development lifecycle.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.
• Ability to obtain a secret security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Presentation and communication skills (verbal/written/visual) with the ability to effectively convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Demonstrated problem solving skills with the ability to meet critical deadlines in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Understand coordination of projects and roles of multi-disciplinary technical support personnel
• Experience designing, building, testing, and optimizing complex communications systems, either SATCOM or line-of-sight, for military applications
• Experience working with RF lab test equipment including signal generators, spectrum analyzers, and power meters
• Familiarity with systems engineering tools and software applications for requirements management, modeling and simulation, configuration management, and technical documentation.
• Knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methodologies and tools
• Experience supporting customer engagements, technical reviews, and program milestone events.
• Experience with Type 1 encryption products and cyber security
• Active Secret Security Clearance

Responsibilities

• Assist in the planning and execution of technical tasks in a focused, high-productivity, collaborative environment while maintaining alignment with program objectives and milestones
• Manage customer, derived, and allocated requirements across all system levels, including decomposition and allocation of requirements based on system-level analysis and design, ensuring traceability and bidirectional linkage from a verification test matrix to customer and system-level derived requirements
• Develop and maintain technical specifications, interface control documents, system architecture documentation, test plans and procedures, configuration analysis and processing solutions, verification and validation strategies, and test reports documenting conformance to specifications and acceptance criteria
• Design, develop, integrate, and test systems as part of a cross-functional team, applying systems engineering principles to ensure technical performance, interoperability, quality, and compliance with requirements.
• Manage tasks to achieve technical compliance within cost and schedule constraints
• Provide comprehensive systems engineering expertise across a broad field of engineering disciplines, including research, evaluation, and development for highly complex and technical communication systems
• Availability to travel 10-40% of the time to customer and subcontractor sites in support of technical meetings, demonstration events, and verification activities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior