Title:  Director, Digital Design and Signal Processing

Job Title: Director, Digital Design and Signal Processing

Job Code: 25631

Job Location: SLC, Utah

Job Schedule: 9/80-Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

L3Harris is currently seeking an Engineering Director to lead the Broadband Communication Systems (BCS) Sector, Digital Design and Signal Processing team. The Engineering Director will lead a team of 200+ engineers and managers in support of the BCS sector product and program portfolio.  This role will coordinate all digital design and signal processing engineering needs for the site and direct engineering execution for the programs, proposals and pursuits in this portfolio. The Engineering Director will report to the Vice President of Engineering of the BCS sector.

Essential Functions:

·   Create vision, strategy, and execute against the plan to help build a best-in-class Engineering team

·   Coordinate all Digital Design and Signal Processing support (personnel, lab resources, tools) required to perform on all programs and product developments within the business area.  Closely track engineering demand and ensure the team is right-sized, properly skilled, and equipped.

·   Ensure allocation of resources is aligned with business priorities and identify solutions for the optimal utilization of resources

·   Hire, attract, retain and grow top talent, creating a cohesive culture that fosters innovation, execution, transparency and collaboration

·    Provide mentorship and growth opportunities for engineering and management staff within the organization

·   Direct engineering program technical, schedule and cost performance for projects with Digital Design and Signal Processing scope to include proposal reviews and cost approvals, engineering program reviews and oversight of key technical decisions

·   Contribute to new business pursuits by growing cross-functional relationships in new business development and across business areas

·   Technical training of the organization and advancement of technology through industry interaction and continued education of technical staff

·   Partner and work very closely with the Engineering Leadership team, Business Development and Program Management to ensure strategy alignment, execution of projects and cross-team collaboration to achieve sector objectives

·   Active U.S. security clearance or the ability to obtain one. TS/SCI preferred

Required Qualifications:

·   Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 15 years of prior related (preferred areas of study include Electrical Engineering 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. 

Preferred Additional Skills:

·   Advanced degree in Engineering and/or Management

·   Deep experience in Electrical Engineering and prior work experience within the Defense industry

·   Senior management experience with multiple sub-managers.

·   Experience and demonstrated competence in technical leadership (project engineer or other technical lead) for large complex programs 

·   Experience managing the engineering content of large DoD proposals and/or new business pursuits

·   Experience in system level development, requirements definition, analysis, integration and risk mitigation for large communications systems

·   Deep experience with Earned Value management (EVMS), metrics, and data driven decisions

·   Strong team player with experience managing highly technical teams

·   Ability to communicate confidently and concisely to both engineers and executive management

·   Proven ability to translate the vision/strategy into clear priorities and direction

·   Track record of being highly collaborative with a proven ability to quickly establish trust and credibility among peers and customers

·   Experience navigating matrix organizations to identify key stakeholders and create efficiencies in related efforts

·   Experience leading development and production of digital and signal processing systems, including FPGA design, software signal processing (GPPs, GPUs, MIMD), low-level software, and machine learning/AI

·   Experience with Agile development in a Government contractor setting

·   Experience with Python, VHDL, C, C++, C# and/or Matlab

·   Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively with customers and teammates

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