Senior Systems Engineer - Defense SATCOM & Data Link

L3Harris Technologies, Inc.; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

L3Harris Communications Systems seeks a Senior Specialist, Systems Engineer to oversee the full lifecycle of advanced data link and SATCOM systems. You will contribute to architecture, requirements, verification, deployment, and sustainment in complex, mission-critical environments.

You will collaborate with internal and customer stakeholders to ensure solutions meet mission requirements and quality standards, including MBSE practices and rigorous documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical, computer or systems engineering with 6+ years of related experience
• Graduate degree with 4+ years of related experience, or 10+ years in lieu of a degree

Responsibilities

• Execute systems engineering across the program lifecycle: requirements, architecture, interface, integration, verification, deployment, and sustainment
• Manage customer, derived, and allocated requirements across system levels with traceability and verification closure
• Contribute to technical baseline development, trade studies, architecture decisions, and design reviews for complex communications systems
• Develop, review, and maintain specifications, interface control documents, architecture artifacts, test plans, procedures, verification strategies, and technical reports
• Work with cross-functional teams to support system design, integration, and test across engineering disciplines
• Support technical risk and opportunity management, root-cause analysis, and corrective action planning across cost, schedule, performance, cybersecurity, and mission requirements
• Partner with program leadership, customers, and engineering to support technical planning, reviews, proposals, and ongoing execution
• Provide guidance to other engineers and foster a collaborative engineering environment
• Recommend improvements to systems engineering processes, tools, standards, and MBSE practices
• Travel 10-20% within CONUS for customer meetings, technical reviews, demonstrations, and verification activities
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements management

MBSE

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer/Systems Engineering

Graduate degree in a related field

Tools

Signal generators

Spectrum analyzers

Power meters

Network testers

Job description

L3Harris Communications Systems seeks a Senior Specialist, Systems Engineer to oversee the full lifecycle of advanced data link and SATCOM systems. You will contribute to architecture, requirements, verification, deployment, and sustainment in complex, mission-critical environments.

You will collaborate with internal and customer stakeholders to ensure solutions meet mission requirements and quality standards, including MBSE practices and rigorous documentation.