L3Harris Technologies

Global defense contractor delivering aerospace tech

Senior Associate - Systems Engineer, Palm Bay, FL

Spacecraft & Launch Vehicle SystemsUpdated on Nov 14

Full-timePalm Bay, FL, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A bachelor's degree and at least 2 years of related experience, or a graduate degree or equivalent with 0 to 2 years of related experience; alternatively, 6 years of related experience may substitute for a degree.
An active Secret or Top Secret U.S. Government security clearance.
Experience with requirements derivation and tracking using DOORS or equivalent, including a requirements verification traceability matrix.
Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering.
Ability to perform in-depth technical work and communicate effectively with multiple disciplines, program office personnel, and customers.
Organization skills to support multidisciplinary teams and achieve technical closure while managing schedule, cost, and customer expectations.
Ability to identify gaps in technical coverage and communicate them to leadership during program execution, and help fill gaps when possible.

Responsibilities

Provide engineering services, research, evaluation, and development for complex space-based and airborne aerospace products.
Solve complex development problems in an area of specialization or on special and design engineering projects across products, projects, or programs.
Apply systems engineering standards, principles, theories, concepts, and techniques.
Specify, architect, analyze, and model designs; establish flow-downs; and verify designs and complex engineering tasks across electrical, mechanical, optical, radio frequency, software, systems, and hardware components, with minimal direction.
Present design analyses to Design Review Boards and participate in proposal teams when applicable.
Work with subject matter experts to represent the customer and provide technical leadership throughout the product and program lifecycle, including advanced research and development, capture, proposals, design, integration and test, verification, and sustainment.
Lead coordination with the System Integration and Test engineer responsible for assembling, integrating, and testing payload and space vehicle subsystems, including power, attitude control, telemetry and command, command and data handling, and inter-subsystem interfaces, ensuring requirements are met.
Collaborate with subject matter experts to define, decompose, allocate, manage, verify, and validate hardware and software requirements.
Collaborate with subject matter experts to define interface requirements, ensure they are flowed down to each subsystem, and coordinate them between subsystems and key suppliers.
Collaborate with subject matter experts to ensure subsystem verification testing and analysis are performed with appropriate modeling of inter-subsystem interfaces.
Participate in and present information at internal and external technical reviews, including peer, requirements, design, qualification, customer System Requirements Review, Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, and Technical Interchange Meetings.
Perform subsystem- and system-level testing, including data reviews, anomaly investigations, and Root Cause Corrective Action closure.
Support and lead technical discussions with customers.

Desired Qualifications

Experience working in a multidisciplinary engineering team across various aspects of the system lifecycle.
Experience executing commercial, firm-fixed-price space development programs.

Job Title: Senior Associate, Systems Engineer

Job Code: 46922

Job Location: Palm Bay, FL

Job Schedule: 9/80

Job Description:

This position will be responsible for providing Systems Engineering support & leadership for space based and associated subsystems across multiple responsive space programs in the Space & Mission Systems Segment of L3Harris Technologies, specifically supporting the Surveillance Systems Division. The senior associate systems engineer will work in a cross functional teams supporting programs through the full lifecycle: program pursuit, proposal, execution and operations. The ideal candidate thrives in a rapid pace execution schedule, leverages their technical trouble shooting skills and communicates promptly with leadership about progress or roadblocks.

Essential Functions:

Senior Associate Systems Engineer will provide engineering services in a broad field of engineering, research, evaluation, and development for highly complex and technical space-based and airborne aerospace products. Solves complex development problems in area of specialization or in implementing special and/or design engineering projects to a wide range of products, projects, or programs. Uses the application of systems engineering standards, principles, theories, concepts and techniques. With minimal direction will be able to specify, architect, analyze, model, establish flow downs and verify designs, test and verify complex engineering tasks in electrical, mechanical, optical, RF, software, systems, and/or hardware components. Presents analysis of designs to Design Review Boards. Participate in proposal teams when applicable.

Work with SMEs to be the voice of the customer and lead technically through the product/program full life cycle including advanced R&D, capture, proposals, design, integration & test, verification, and sustainment
Lead coordination with System Integration and Test engineer responsible for the assembly, integration, and testing of payload & space vehicle subsystems including power, attitude control, T&C (Telemetry & Command), C&DH (Command & Data Handling), and inter-subsystem interfaces to ensure all requirements are met
Collaborate with SMEs to perform hardware/software requirements definition, decomposition, allocation, management, verification, and validation
Collaborate with SMEs to define and ensure interface requirements are properly flowed down to each subsystem and coordinated between subsystems including key suppliers such as for bus components or subsystems
Collaborate with SMEs to ensure subsystem verification testing and analysis is performed with appropriate modeling of inter-subsystem interfaces
Participate in and present information for internal and external technical reviews including peer reviews, requirements reviews, design reviews, qualification reviews and customer System Requirements Review (SRR), Preliminary Design reviews (PDR), Critical Design Reviews (CDR) and Technical Interchange Meetings (TIM)
Perform subsystem and system level testing including data reviews, anomaly investigations and RCCA (Root Cause Corrective Action) closure
Support and lead technical discussions with customers
Experience with requirements derivation and tracking using DOORs (or equivalent) including requirements verification traceability matrix (RVTM).
Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree or equivalent with 0 to 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 6 years of prior related experience.
Active Secret or Top Secret U.S. Government Security Clearance

Preferred Additional Skills:

Experience working in multi-disciplinary engineering team through various aspects of the system lifecycle
Ability to perform in-depth technical work while being able to communicate effectively with multiple disciplines, program office personnel and customers
Organization skills to be able to support multi-disciplined teams and working to proper technical closure while managing schedule, cost and customer expectations
Ability to identify any gaps in technical coverage to appropriate leadership during all phases of program execution; help fill in any gaps, when possible
Experience executing commercial, firm-fixed price development programs for space

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About the Company

L3Harris Technologies

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.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Melbourne, FL
Founded: 1895

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