Senior Systems Engineer

L3Harris; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Additional leave + carryover options

Salary continuance insurance

Flexible working hours by location

Discounted private health insurance

Life & TPD Cover

Novated car leasing

Professional development programs

Retail reward programs

Onsite parking

Early finish on Fridays

Job summary

L3Harris Australia seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to lead systems engineering activities across the full lifecycle of complex Defence capability projects. You will ensure requirements coherence, verification, compliance, and alignment with customer and operational needs.

Responsibilities include leading requirements analysis, architecture management, verification planning, and risk management, while mentoring junior engineers and coordinating with safety, cyber, and reliability disciplines.

Qualifications

• Degree in electronic/electrical engineering or similar discipline.
• 6+ years of experience in a System Engineering role.
• 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 to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead systems engineering activities across the full lifecycle of Defence projects.
• Develop and maintain system artefacts, including specifications and verification artefacts.
• Lead architecture and interface management to ensure coherence and security.
• Support technical reviews, defect resolution and customer acceptance activities.
• Coordinate with safety, security, cyber, reliability and environmental disciplines.
• Provide mentoring to junior engineers and teams.

Skills

System Engineering

RPEQ eligibility

Independent work

Clear communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in electronic/electrical engineering

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 Engineer is responsible for leading systems engineering activities across the full system lifecycle for complex Defence capability 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, risk and 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 and maintain the system technical baseline, including requirements, architecture, interfaces, design decisions, assumptions, risks, and verification evidence

• Develop, review, and maintain key systems engineering artefacts, including specifications, architecture & descriptions, interface control documents, verification artefacts, 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, option assessment, and evidence-based recommendations

• Contribute to systems engineering estimates, schedules, scope definition, resource planning, and technical delivery planning

• Develop and maintain verification and validation strategies, plans, procedures, matrices, and evidence to demonstrate compliance 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 is maintained

• Coordinate with specialty engineering disciplines, including safety, security, cyberworthiness, ILS, reliability, maintainability, human factors, EMI/EMC, and environmental qualification

• Support Defence technical 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.

What you’ll bring

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 as DoDAF and standards such as MOSA/SOSA.

• Experience with Defence communications systems, electronic warfare systems, RF systems, mission systems, command and control systems, platform integration, or other complex Defence capabilities.

• Experience preparing objective quality evidence for verification, validation, certification, compliance, or customer acceptance.

About L3Harris Australia

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 in Eight Mile Plains is The Centre of Excellence for Electronic Warfare and is home to world-leading design, manufacture and integration expertise and the sustainment of high-reliability electronic warfare components. Our highly skilled workforce design and develop Australia’s sovereign defence capabilities such as the next-generation space, airborne and cyber capabilities for the Australian warfighter.

A few of our employee benefits are:

• An additional week of leave per annum plus the option to buy or sell up to 2 weeks additional annual leave.

• Salary continuance insurance (SCI pays 75% of your base salary and bonus for up to 2 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

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.

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L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug‑free workplace and performs pre‑employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.

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