Specialist Systems Engineer
L3Harris Technologies
Specialist Systems Engineer
L3Harris Technologies
Global defense contractor delivering aerospace tech
Job Title: Specialist Systems Engineer
Job Code: 43437
Job Location: Mason, OH - On Site
Job Schedule: 9/80 - Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off
Job Description:
As a Systems Engineer Specialist in our IR Sensors business area, you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of programs, helping solve some of our customers’ most difficult technical challenges. In this role, you will support our IR development and/or production programs. You may serve as the technical lead for a small program or work as part of a team performing technical planning, design, analysis, implementation, system integration, validation, and verification. Analyses are conducted at all levels, including concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance, and disposal.
This position supports the Missile Solutions (MSL) Segment, a high-performing team of talented professionals with world-class technical expertise who take a collaborative approach to engineering and enjoy working together. We have a long history of innovation and exceptional performance, earning our place as a trusted provider to our customers.
Essential Functions:
·Systems engineering for EO/IR (Electro-Optical/Infra-Red) sensor systems.
· Lead or support technical planning, system integration, validation, and verification activities in support of programs and development efforts.
·Judgment and Decision Making — Consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate solution.
· Systems Analysis — Determine how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes / performance.
·Systems Evaluation — Identify measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance relative to the goals of the system.
·Lead or support across system development lifecycle.
·Must have the ability to obtain a DoD security clearance
Qualifications:
Preferred Additional Skills:
·Demonstrated experience within the EO/IR (Electro-Optical/Infra-Red) sensor field
·Demonstrated experience in a technical discipline supporting EO/IR sensor or component work
·Experience writing BOEs and supporting proposals
·Demonstrated experience in the architecture, specification, implementation, simulation, test, verification, validation, and debugging
·Demonstrated complex problem solving and decision making — Able to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions; able to consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate solution
·Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work well within and outside of the organization including customers, vendors, and leadership with minimal oversight
·Knowledge of military and/or NASA component specifications, design processes, and hardware test/verification procedures.
Global defense contractor delivering aerospace tech
L3Harris Technologies provides advanced aerospace, defense, and space systems for governments and commercial customers. Its products include sensors, communications, and propulsion—such as tactical radios, night-vision gear, satellite payloads, missile defense, and space propulsion—delivered as integrated systems for operations across air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains. The company blends legacy technologies from two joining giants with newer capabilities, faster acquisition cycles, and a focus on missiles, space, and resilient communications to field solutions quickly. Its goal is to be a trusted, scale-ready provider of next‑generation defense and intelligence capabilities for national security and related customers.
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