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Job Title: Lead, Systems Integration and Test Engineering

Job Code: 43619

Job Location: Fort Wayne, IN or Palm Bay, FL

Job Schedule: 9/80 (subject to change based on business needs)

Job Description:

L3Harris is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer in the Systems Integration & Test (SI&T) domain. This role offers an exciting opportunity within the Space and Mission Systems (SMS) organization, driven by growth in advanced sensing and spectral mission solutions.

This lead role is responsible for planning and leading the verification and test effort across the product lifecycle, including program inception, requirements review, test case development, test architecture development, integration, production support activities, and final sell-off. This role also includes Cost Account Management (CAM), schedule management, and providing input to the Earned Value Management System (EVMS).

The SI&T Systems Engineer works within an Integrated Product Team (IPT) composed of Systems, Hardware, Software, Manufacturing, Quality, Production, and subcontractor teams. The IPT defines complex test strategies to validate and verify unit design, Assembly Integration and Test (AI&T) flow, and mission operations capabilities. The team may span multiple locations and include support from other internal and external organizations.

Essential Functions:

• Provide mastery-level systems engineering expertise and technical leadership during verification and integration & test (I&T) activities of space equipment, including spacecraft buses, payload integration, and end-to-end communications with ground. Verification and test support includes functional testing, environmental qualification testing, and spacecraft production testing.
• Provide technical direction and integration leadership. Help establish disciplined verification and integration practices that reduce technical risk and improve execution.
• Communicate effectively with engineering leadership, program management, manufacturing, quality, and customer stakeholders.
• Communicate effectively with customers and represent SI&T during major design reviews such as SRR, SDR, PDR/CDR, IRR, I&T, final sell-off.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and support growth of SI&T capability within the organization.
• Direct support personnel in the day-to-day execution of the system test and integration tasks for Space Vehicles and Payloads.
• Responsible for scoping supporting Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) and Test Software. Familiarity with Test Bed(s), Test Set(s), and Test Software automation tools.
• Responsible for development support to all phases of the system Lifecycle (design, analysis, manufacturing, test, verification/validation, and delivery).
• Generate and maintain key test documentation, including Test Requirements Documents, Test Design Documents, Test Plans, and Test Procedures.
• Responsible for UUT selloff, checkouts, Test Reports, and Compliance Reports.
• Analyze test results, detect issues, document and track root causes through resolution in collaboration with the development team
• Support the root cause, troubleshooting, and corrective action process.
• Travel to support integration activities and post-delivery support as required, estimated as 15% or less.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 9 years of engineering experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of engineering experience. In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 13 years of engineeringexperience
• 5+ years of experience of System Integration and Test (SI&T), large system engineering

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Active Secret clearance or eligibility for Secret clearance; Top Secret clearance desired.
• Experience working through all phases of program and across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience testing military or space qualified hardware designs.
• Experience with systems, hardware, and software requirements verification. Testability, verification definition, block diagrams, interconnect diagrams, and hardware/software integration.
• Experience with requirements derivation, traceability, and tracking using DOORS or equivalent tools, including Requirements Verification Traceability Matrix (RVTM) development and maintenance.
• Experience designing test beds, simulators, or related integration support systems.
• Experience with general engineering test equipment and tools including but not limited to Multi-meters, O-Scopes, Power Supplies, Signal Generators, Logic Analyzers, Spectrum Analyzers, Network Analyzers.
• Familiarity with automation and scripting languages (e.g. Python, Perl, Java, Visual Studio, LabVIEW, TestStand)
• Familiarity with Atlassian tool suite and other Software configuration management, repository, and deployment tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Jenkins).
• Familiarity with Satellite Telemetry Tracking & Control (TT&C) Scripting languages (e.g. InControl, COSMOS, or other).

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