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L3Harris Technologies

Global defense contractor delivering aerospace tech

Lead Systems Engineer - Space Vehicle Bus Integration & Test

Spacecraft & Launch Vehicle SystemsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timePalm Bay, FL, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree and at least 9 years of prior relevant experience, or a graduate degree and at least 7 years of prior related experience, or at least 13 years of prior related experience in lieu of a degree.
  • Demonstrated experience in space-vehicle bus systems engineering, integration, and test, including technical ownership of subsystem and system interfaces.
  • Working knowledge of space-vehicle bus subsystems such as electrical power, attitude control, telemetry, tracking and command, command and data handling, structures, thermal, and avionics, with the ability to resolve cross-domain interface issues.
  • Experience with requirements development and flowdown, interface management, verification planning and execution, test readiness, and test-data review in a hardware development program.
  • Experience leading or coordinating suppliers and multidisciplinary engineering teams through technical decisions, anomaly resolution, and corrective actions.
  • Active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program access, as required.

Responsibilities

  • Lead space-vehicle bus integration and test planning and execution across electrical power, attitude control, telemetry, tracking and command, command and data handling, and other bus-to-payload/system interfaces.
  • Serve as the technical point of contact for bus and telemetry, tracking and command suppliers; establish technical baselines, flow down requirements, resolve interface issues, and contribute to supplier and program technical reviews.
  • Coordinate bus environmental verification test readiness, integration, test procedures, readiness reviews, test-data disposition, and closure of verification evidence.
  • Maintain requirements, interface, and verification traceability; assess impacts of changes across bus, payload, ground, and mission interfaces.
  • Lead investigation and resolution of anomalies, nonconformances, and technical risks, including root-cause and corrective-action closure and lessons learned.
  • Partner with systems engineering, hardware, software, quality, manufacturing, and operations teams to transition bus capabilities through first-unit build, development test, integration, and production.
  • Communicate technical status, decisions, risks, and recovery plans to program leadership and customers; mentor engineers in disciplined integration and test execution.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with DOORS, requirements verification traceability matrices, or comparable requirements and verification-traceability tools.
  • Experience with model-based systems engineering, Systems Modeling Language, or architecture models used to manage space-vehicle interfaces.
  • Experience coordinating environmental, development, qualification, acceptance, or production testing for space-vehicle hardware.
  • Experience preparing for and conducting system, supplier, test-readiness, and flight-readiness reviews.
  • Experience with supplier technical management, failure review, root-cause/corrective-action methods, and risk-recovery planning.

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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