Job ID: 25383

Title: Senior Scientist, Systems Engineer

Location:

Melbourne, FL, US, 32934

Job Title: Senior Scientist, Systems Engineer

Job Code: 25383

Job Location: Melbourne, FL

Job Schedule: 9/80

Job Description:

The Advanced Concept Engineer (ACE) provides the strategic technical leadership to draw on L3Harris' technical competencies to meet the business needs of L3Harris and its customers. The ACE is the technical interface between L3Harris and our customers’ engineering staffs, supporting the Business Development staff in the creation of new business opportunities. The successful ACE will engage with customer, engineering, operations, and management personnel to define and document the customer’s CONOPS and requirements, perform trade studies, engage L3Harris Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to architect an affordable solution carrying acceptable risk, and lead resulting proposal efforts. The ACE takes into account all of the needs, resources, and constraints, including the customer mission, budget limitations, technical preferences, physics boundaries, and the political climate, in a manner that creates trust in the ACE as well as L3Harris. During program execution, the ACE is the technical advocate and voice of the customer during program reviews. This role requires experience in systems engineering, system architecture development, competitive assessment, project engineering management and development program execution.

The Advanced Concept Engineer should be a subject matter expert in multiple technical domains with an entrepreneurial background. This individual will work closely with business development and senior management to respond to customer needs with technical presentations, white papers and proposals; requests for proposals, information and broad agency announcements; and provide market and subject matter expert guidance to business strategy and existing development efforts. Demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills, coupled with the ability to work cross-functionally between a large engineering enterprise and external partners is required.

Essential Functions:

Interpretation of customers’ mission needs with a focus on identifying mission gaps and addressable market
Advocates customer critical needs to internal stakeholders
Builds business cases and manages discretionary resources
Roadmaps organic technology, discretionary funding, external partner capabilities, and customer funded studies to build new business opportunities
Performs technical and management competitive assessments to clearly communicate why and how the new business opportunities provide value to L3Harris and the customer
Evaluates customer and operational needs to help define and coordinate high level system performance, physical, functional, and program interface requirements
Synthesis and life cycle ownership of mission architecture
Generation of the initial Concept of Operations (CONOPS) or Operational Descriptions Document (ODD)
Generation of initial system architecture views; decomposing opportunity to addressable configuration items in a compressive value chain framework
Leads the development of appropriate solutions to customer needs
Demonstrates broad and deep technical knowledge; accesses Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) as needed
Determines whether requirements can be met with existing capabilities/designs or if new design requirements must be developed
Leads and coordinates various analyses to optimize total system of systems and/or system architecture
Assess and provide direction for make/buy decisions and selection of strategic suppliers
Establishes the technology integration or migration strategies
Leads and perform trade studies required to make both tactical and strategic technical decisions for pursuit
Provides technical coordination between customer, industry, and internal engineering groups to articulate technical issues
Prepares and presents technical information that addresses specific subjects of interest
Analyzes and develops recommendations to resolve contractual technical issues
Maintains a macro view of L3Harris' existing and emerging technologies
Leads and coordinates pursuit activities such as: technical baseline reviews, request for input (RFI) responses, request for proposal (RFP) responses, and white papers.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 15 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 19 years of prior related experience.
Demonstrated experience working with EW systems, including signals analysis, hardware design approaches, industry best practices, and techniques against adversary systems.
Previous experience executing DoD/government programs
Proven technical business development skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Excels in communication, adeptly translating complex technical concepts for diverse audiences, including non-technical stakeholders and cross-functional teams
Experience with functional and physical architecture development
Experience collaborating in a team environment
Ability to work autonomously and with others to resolve technical issues
Must have ability to obtain and maintain US Government Secret Security Clearance.

Preferred Additional Skills:

Current US Government Top Secret//SCI Security Clearance
Deep expertise in RF Engineering including Ideation, analysis of alternatives, and link budgets
Knowledge of the requirements and challenges associated with developing counter communications solutions for man-pack systems.
Experience with AI tools and frameworks for developing intelligent systems and automating processes
Offensive and defensive Cyber mission experience with the ability to identify core mission gaps and influence customer solution space
Demonstrated entrepreneurial success
Demonstrated quick reaction technical team leadership experience
Previous experience with SOCOM
Broad experience working with and for Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC) — both domestic and international