Senior Associate, Systems Engineering

L3Harris Technologies, Inc.; City of Rochester, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 71,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Flexible spending accounts

Education assistance

Parental leave

Paid time off

Company-paid holidays

EAP

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies, Inc. in Rochester, NY is seeking a Senior Associate, Systems Engineering to verify and validate complex systems for mission-critical solutions.

Role focuses on bench-top and over-the-air environments, developing test architectures, tools, and methodologies for rigorous product qualification. The candidate will work with cross-disciplinary teams to ensure release readiness, with occasional travel and involvement in new business pursuits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 0-2 years experience or Graduate Degree with 0-2 years.
• Experience in verification and validation of complex systems preferred.
• Familiarity with RF communications and networking.

Responsibilities

• Design lab-based test environments for product and system qualification.
• Develop test tools, automation, and validation methods to improve coverage and efficiency.
• Perform integration, regression, and stress testing to assess release readiness.
• Collaborate with systems, software, and hardware engineers to support validation.
• Refine procedures and reporting of performance data for continuous improvement.
• Support new business pursuits including demos and proposals, travel as needed.

Skills

RF communications familiarity

Networking (TCP/IP, LAN, WAN)

Documentation skills

Effective communications

Mentoring / training

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or Graduate Degree

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.

Senior Associate, Systems Engineering

Job Code: 45783

Job Location: Rochester, NY

Job Schedule

9/80 Employees work 9 out of every 14 days- totaling 80 hours working- and have every other Friday off

Job Description

As a member of the MCC Engineering Field Test Validation Team, this engineer will contribute to the company’s success by ensuring L3Harris product and system requirements are comprehensively verified and validated with a user-focused approach across both bench-top and over-the-air operational environments. This role is responsible for planning, developing, and executing verification and validation activities for complex integrated systems, including advanced networking technologies, in representative mission and operational scenarios. Responsibilities include bench-top validation of hardware, software, and system-of-systems implementations; development of test architectures, tools, automation, and methodologies to enable rigorous product and system qualification; and identification and implementation of innovative solutions that support release readiness, often supplementing or replacing field validation where technically appropriate. The position requires thorough evaluation of system performance, interfaces, interoperability, and mission effectiveness to ensure products and systems are qualified for deployment and meet customer, program, and quality requirements.

Essential Functions

• Designing and configuring lab-based test environments to accurately emulate operational, mission, and field conditions for product and system qualification.
• Identifying, creating, and implementing test tools, automation frameworks, scripts, and innovative validation methods to improve coverage, repeatability, efficiency, and technical rigor
• Performing integration, regression, stress, negative, and troubleshooting test activities to characterize system behavior, identify defects, and assess release readiness
• Collaborating with systems, software, and hardware engineering and field test team members to ensure bench-top validation effectively supplements or, where appropriate, replaces field validation
• Refining team procedures, practices, and collection and reporting of performance data to ensure continuous improvement in the execution of tests.
• May also include occasionally supporting new business pursuit activities including demos, proposals, generation of applications info (e.g. diagrams, write-ups, etc.), and/or occasional travel and/or customer interaction to support these activities.
• Candidates should be aware that additional requirements associated with conducting on-air testing of tactical radios also may apply. These include working outside in virtually all-weather conditions applicable to the Rochester, NY area and other physical requirements such as occasional lifting and installing equipment and working in and around vehicles. Driving L3Harris vehicles is a requirement of the job.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum of 2 years of prior relevant experience or Graduate Degree or equivalent with 0 to 2 years of prior related experience

Preferred Additional Skills

• Some familiarity with RF communications and propagation.
• Knowledge of / experience with networking including TCP/IP, LAN and WAN technologies.
• Positive attitude, openness to new ideas, willingness to learn new tools, and a strong motivation to positively impact the performance and work experience of the team.
• Strong documentation skills for test development, test enhancements, and status reporting.
• Strong adaptive learning skills, able to learn quickly, retain knowledge, and utilize resources to work productively and efficiently both independently and on a team on a wide range of tasks.
• Effective communications skills across a variety of employee levels.
• Ability to support multiple projects at one time.
• Prior military or professional communications experience including radio operation and/or repair/troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with Tactical Communications technologies and applications.
• Ability to mentor / train team members on new technology, technical concepts, and test configuration and procedure execution.

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in New York state is $70,500 - $130,500. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

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