Specialist, Systems Engineer

Location: Salt Lake City, UT, US

Employment Type: Full-Time

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L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title: Specialist, Systems Engineer

Job Code: 42065

Job Location: Salt Lake City- UT

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

L3Harris’ Spectrum Superiority segment is currently seeking a Systems Engineer to support multiple programs, with an emphasis on Systems Integration and Test. This position will be based at our Salt Lake City, UT facility. 

Position Overview: 

L3Harris is seeking a Systems Engineer with a strong focus on Integration and Test (I&T) to support the development, verification, and validation of complex systems. This role is responsible for planning and executing systems integration activities, developing test strategies, and ensuring system performance meets defined requirements across hardware, software, and networked components.

Essential Responsibilities: 

• Support systems integration and test activities across multiple subsystems and platforms
• Develop and maintain integration and test plans, procedures, and reports
• Define and execute verification and validation (V&V) strategies to ensure requirements compliance
• Collaborate with systems, software, hardware, mechanical, a networking engineering teams to resolve integration issues
• Support test event planning, including lab, ground, and field test activities
• Analyze test results, document findings, and provide recommendations for system improvements
• Ensure traceability between requirements, test cases, and verification results
• Participate in design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, etc.) and provide I&T input
• Develop and maintain test environments, including test tools, scripts, and automation frameworks
• Support configuration management and ensure proper version control during integration activities

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.
• Currently hold a DoD security clearance

Preferred Additional Skills: 

• Experience with system integration, test, and verification in a complex system environment
• Familiarity with requirements management tools (e.g. DOORS, Jama)
• Experience developing and executing test procedures and test plans
• Understanding of system lifecycle processes and systems engineering fundamentals
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve integration issues across hardware and software domains
• Experience in system level development, requirements definition, analysis, and risk mitigation for Communications, Open Systems Architecture, Satellite Communications, and/or Electronic Warfare systems
• Presentation and communication skills
• Problem solving skills and the ability to meet critical deadlines
• Experience in Model Based Systems Engineering
• Understand coordination of projects and roles of technical support personnel
• Ability to work independently
• System Security Testing experience

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