Space Vehicle Bus I&T Lead - Systems Engineering

L3Harris Technologies; Palm Bay (FL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies is seeking a Lead, Systems Engineering - Space Vehicle Bus Integration & Test in Palm Bay, FL. This technical-lead role directs bus integration, test readiness, and verification across development to production lifecycles.

You will coordinate with suppliers and multiple engineering disciplines to establish baselines, flow requirements, and resolve cross-domain interface issues while guiding anomaly resolution and lessons learned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 9 years of prior relevant experience; Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience; or, in lieu of a degree, a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• Demonstrated experience in space-vehicle bus systems engineering, integration, and test, including technical ownership of subsystem and system interfaces.
• Working knowledge of SV bus subsystems such as electrical power, attitude control, TT&C, C&DH, structures, thermal, and avionics, with the ability to resolve cross-domain interface issues.
• Experience with requirements development and flowdown, interface management, verification planning and execution, test readiness, and test-data review in a hardware development program.
• Experience leading or coordinating suppliers and multidisciplinary engineering teams through technical decisions, anomaly resolution, and corrective actions.
• Active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearance.
• Ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) access, as required.

Responsibilities

• Lead SV-bus I&T planning and execution across electrical power, attitude control, TT&C, C&DH, and other bus-to-payload/system interfaces.
• Serve as the technical point of contact for bus and TT&C suppliers; establish technical baselines, flow down requirements, resolve interface issues, and contribute to supplier and program technical reviews.
• Coordinate Bus environmental verification test readiness, integration, test procedures, readiness reviews, test-data disposition, and closure of verification evidence.
• Maintain requirements, interface, and verification traceability; assess impacts of changes across bus, payload, ground, and mission interfaces.
• Lead investigation and resolution of anomalies, nonconformances, and technical risks, including root-cause/corrective-action closure and lessons learned.
• Partner with systems engineering, hardware, software, quality, manufacturing, and operations teams to transition bus capabilities through first-unit build, development test, integration, and production.
• Communicate technical status, decisions, risks, and recovery plans to program leadership and customers; mentor engineers in disciplined I&T execution.

Skills

Technical leadership

Systems engineering

Cross-functional coordination

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Graduate Degree

Tools

DOORS

RVTM

Job description

L3Harris Technologies is seeking a Lead, Systems Engineering - Space Vehicle Bus Integration & Test in Palm Bay, FL. This technical-lead role directs bus integration, test readiness, and verification across development to production lifecycles.

You will coordinate with suppliers and multiple engineering disciplines to establish baselines, flow requirements, and resolve cross-domain interface issues while guiding anomaly resolution and lessons learned.