Senior Systems Engineer

Harris Geospatial Solutions; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extra leave

SCI insurance

Flexible hours

Health insurance

Life cover

Car leasing

Professional development

Retail rewards

Onsite parking

Early finish Friday

Job summary

L3Harris Australia seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to lead systems engineering activities across the full lifecycle for complex Defence capability projects. You will ensure coherent, verifiable, and compliant technical solutions aligned with customer requirements.

Responsibilities span requirements management, architecture development, design, integration, verification & validation, risk management, and change control, with mentoring to junior engineers and collaboration across disciplines.

Qualifications

• Degree in electronic/electrical engineering.
• 6+ years in a System Engineering role.
• Experience with Defence acquisition or sustainment programs.
• Demonstrated systems engineering across the lifecycle.
• Understanding of change control, configuration management, risk management.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements analysis, decomposition, traceability and compliance management.
• Maintain system baseline incl. requirements, architecture, interfaces and design decisions.
• Develop and maintain key systems engineering artefacts and verification artefacts.
• Lead architecture and interface management for coherent, secure and operable solutions.
• Support technical decisions with trade studies and evidence-based recommendations.
• Contribute to estimates, schedules, scope, resources and delivery planning.
• Develop verification and validation strategies and evidence for compliance.
• Support integration, test readiness, defect resolution and customer acceptance.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements analysis

Technical communication

Independent work

Risk management

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in electronic/electrical engineering

RPEQ eligibility

Tools

MBSE

DoDAF

MOSA/SOSA

Job description

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

About the role

A Senior Systems Engineeris responsible forleading systems engineering activities across the full system lifecycle for complexDefencecapability projects. The role ensures technical solutions are coherent, verifiable, compliant, and aligned to customer and operational requirements.

This is achieved through participation in all phases of the systems engineering lifecycle including requirements management, architecture development, design, implementation, integration, verification & validation,riskand change management.

What the role will involve

The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

• Lead requirements analysis, decomposition, allocation, traceability, verification planning, and compliance management
• Establish andmaintainthesystemtechnical baseline, including requirements, architecture, interfaces, design decisions, assumptions, risks, and verification evidence
• Develop, review, andmaintainkey systems engineering artefacts, including specifications, architecture & descriptions, interface control documents,verificationartefacts, trade studies, technical reports, and systems engineering plans
• Lead system architecture and interface management activities to ensure the solution is technically coherent,feasible, secure, supportable, and aligned with operational needs
• Support engineering decisions through structured trade studies, technical analysis,optionassessment, and evidence-based recommendations
• Contribute to systems engineering estimates, schedules, scope definition, resource planning, and technical delivery planning
• Develop andmaintainverification and validation strategies, plans, procedures, matrices, and evidence todemonstratecompliance with applicable requirements
• Support integration, test readiness, verification execution, defect resolution, and customer acceptance activities
• Plan, prepare, and support internal and customer technical reviews, including requirements, design, test readiness, production readiness, verification, and acceptance reviews
• Manage technical risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, opportunities, and engineering change impacts
• Support configuration management and engineering change control to ensure the approved technical baseline ismaintained
• Coordinate with specialty engineering disciplines, including safety, security,cyberworthiness, ILS, reliability, maintainability, human factors, EMI/EMC, and environmentalqualification
• SupportDefencetechnical assurance, certification, compliance, and acceptance activities, including preparation of objective quality evidence.
• Participate in internal engineering and quality processes, including non-conformance reports, failure reports, corrective actions, investigations, lessons learned, and continuous improvement activities.
• Provide technical leadership, task guidance, peer review, and mentoring to junior engineers and other engineering team members.
• Support adherence to company Quality processes and procedures, including thoserequiredfor AS9100 accreditation

Whatyou’llbring

The role requires the following experience and skills:

• Degree in electronic/electrical engineering or similar discipline.
• 6+ years of experience in a System Engineering role.
• Experience with Defence acquisition or sustainment programs.
• Demonstrated experience applying systems engineering principles across the system lifecycle.
• Understanding of engineering change control, configuration management, technical risk management, and technical decision-making processes.
• Eligible for registration with the Board of Professional Engineers of Queensland (RPEQ).
• Ability to work independently or as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Ability to communicate complex technical information clearly and effectively to engineering, management, supplier, and customer stakeholders.

Desirable

• Post-graduate qualifications in Systems Engineering.
• Knowledge of model-based systems engineering (MBSE).
• Knowledge of systems architecture frameworks such asDoDAFand standards such as MOSA/SOSA.
• Experience withDefencecommunications systems, electronic warfare systems, RF systems, mission systems, command and control systems, platform integration, or other complexDefencecapabilities.
• Experience preparing objective quality evidence for verification, validation, certification, compliance, or customer acceptance.

AboutL3HarrisAustralia

L3Harris has provided advanced technology solutions to government and commercial customers across Australia for more than 25 years. L3Harris has facilities in all major cities and employs over 500 people.

L3Harris inEight MilePlains isThe Centre of Excellence for Electronic Warfareand ishome to world-leading design, manufacture and integrationexpertiseand the sustainment of high-reliability electronic warfare components.Ourhighly skilled workforce design and develop Australia’s sovereigndefencecapabilities such as thenext-generation space, airborne and cyber capabilities for the Australian warfighter.

A few of ouremployeebenefits are:

• Anadditionalweek of leave per annum plus theoptionto buy or sell up to 2weeksadditionalannual leave.
• Salary continuance insurance (SCI pays 75% of your base salary and bonus for up to2 years)
• Flexible working hours and patterns depending on location
• Discounted private health insurance
• Life & Total Permanent Disability Cover
• Novated Car Leasing
• Company supported professional development programs
• Retail Reward programs
• Company paid parking/onsite company car park
• Half day finish on Fridays

Important toknow

Due to the nature of our work many our roles require an Australiancitizenshipandwill require the successful candidate to successfully apply and hold an AustralianDefenceSecurity Clearance and/or be assessed to work with ITAR information.Please answer the pre-screening questions upon applying for this assessment.

For more information or a confidential discussion, please contact our Talent Acquisition teamat [e-mail]

As an equal opportunities employer, L3Harris is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.