Specialist Systems Engineer

Work onsite in Waco, TX as a Specialist Systems Engineer in the Systems Engineering department at L3Harris Technologies. In this role, you will help teams take complex, airborne platform systems from requirements through design, test, integration, and certification support. You will translate customer and airworthiness expectations into verifiable system-level requirements and lead cross-disciplined collaboration to move mission system integration forward.

What you will do

• Design and develop physical architectures that incorporate mission system equipment into airborne systems for military and commercial customers.
• Translate customer and airworthiness requirements into unique, verifiable system-level requirements.
• Lead Program Integrated Product Teams made up of cross-disciplined engineers, including internal and external members.
• Serve as a technical focal point for customer conversations on technical issues.
• Define and apply requirement traceability methods to support system engineering outcomes.
• Perform systems engineering trade studies, including evaluating alternatives for accuracy and completeness.
• Write subsystem specifications derived from system-level requirements.
• Evaluate alternative solutions and establish preliminary system design directions.
• Prepare effective presentations to communicate technical information to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Use Microsoft Office to support documentation and communication needs.
• Operate within a Product Lifecycle Manager (PLM) environment, with TeamCenter preferred.

Required qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of Systems engineering experience with requirements and systems documentation.
• Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate engineering discipline (Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, Software, Physics, etc.) plus a minimum of 4 years related work experience, or:
• Graduate Degree in an appropriate engineering discipline (Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, Software, Physics, etc.) plus a minimum of 2 years prior related experience, or:
• Minimum 8 years of prior work experience in a directly applicable field.

Preferred skills

• Experience in managing system requirements and requirements decomposition.
• Preferred Active Secret Clearance, including ability to receive clearance.
• Prior experience integrating mission systems or interiors on airborne platforms.
• DOORS experience.
• Experience conducting first article verification testing.
• Excellent written, oral, and presentation communication skills.
• Experience working with subcontractors and US Government customers.
• Ability to work independently and in a team setting, including leading teams through a system development and integration cycle.

Technologies: Microsoft Office, Product Lifecycle Manager (PLM), TeamCenter, DOORS.