Systems Engineer, Space EO/IR Payload

L3Harris; Fort Wayne (IN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies in Fort Wayne, IN seeks a Systems Engineer to support development of space-based EO/IR mission payloads. You will perform broad systems engineering functions across design, integration, verification, and test within a multidisciplinary team focused on data management, MBSE, and verification activities.

The role involves requirements management, performance analysis, and collaboration with optics, electronics, software, mechanical, and mission operations engineering.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 4 years prior relevant experience or graduate degree with 2 years of experience; in lieu of a degree, 8 years of related experience.
• Experience in requirements, verification, analysis, integration and test, technical documentation, or MBSE.

Responsibilities

• Support systems engineering activities for a space-based EO/IR mission payload system across development, integration, verification, and test phases.
• Contribute to development, decomposition, allocation, and maintenance of system and subsystem requirements.
• Support requirements traceability, verification planning, and verification closure activities.
• Assist with development and maintenance of systems engineering artifacts such as specs, interface docs, verification matrices, technical plans, and trade studies.
• Perform analyses to support system design, performance evaluation, and mission compliance assessments.
• Collaborate with optics, focal plane, electronics, software, mechanical, thermal, integration and test, and mission operations engineering.
• Support issue resolution, risk identification, discrepancy tracking, and change impact assessments.
• Participate in system integration, test planning, test execution, and post-test data review.
• Support program reviews and lifecycle activities (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR) and related working groups.
• Maintain the technical baseline through disciplined documentation and configuration management.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirement management

Data analysis

MBSE

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field

Master's Degree

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Job description

L3Harris Technologies in Fort Wayne, IN seeks a Systems Engineer to support development of space-based EO/IR mission payloads. You will perform broad systems engineering functions across design, integration, verification, and test within a multidisciplinary team focused on data management, MBSE, and verification activities.

The role involves requirements management, performance analysis, and collaboration with optics, electronics, software, mechanical, and mission operations engineering.