Specialist, Systems Engineer
Listed on 2026-03-03
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, IT Support
Overview
L3
Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3
Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.
L3
Harris 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 Engineering
Job Code:
34266
Job Location:
Aurora, CO
Job Schedule: 9/80
Job Description:
During its 120-year history, L3
Harris has transformed communications and information technology. L3
Harris is a proven leader in tactical communications, geospatial systems and services, air traffic management, environmental solutions, avionics and electronic warfare, and space and intelligence. From ocean to orbit and everywhere in between, we provide mission-critical solutions to connect, inform and protect the world.
On the L3
Harris team, your job is to secure the world. We don t work here just for the advanced technology and equipment: we work here because we know what - and who - we re protecting! From families to the intelligence community, and from our climate to our men and women in uniform - we re making the world a safer place!
L3
Harris Technologies Space and Airborne Systems has an opening for a Software Integration Specialist,Systems Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Aurora, Colorado. The individual will be embedded at a customer site integrating and testing the next generation Operational Control Segment for the GPS constellation. This challenging and rewarding work involves a fast-paced environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, and a collaborative team setting.
Upon successful integration, test, and delivery of this system it will transition to control and maintain all of the GPS satellites (the satellites that make your Google maps location in smart phones work) that provide positioning and timing services to users across the globe. Come join the team and make an impact for the billions of GPS users who will rely on this system.
Functions
Hands-on software integration - Running critical, functional threads in an Ops-like, integrated environment to facilitate discovery and diagnosis of issues. Initially, position may involve software defect resolution to gain system familiarity. Successful integrator has a demonstrated ability to:
- Frequent travel to end user site at Schriever Space Force Base in Colorado Springs
- Collaborate with both co-located and remote teammates
- Be capable of working with minimal oversight
- Systematically investigate technical problems of varying complexity
- Dive into unfamiliar areas and learn quickly
- Diagnose and fix issues with web services, messaging, database, and web applications
- Take initiative, own tasks and drive them to completion
- Communicate clearly and proactively, both in writing and orally
- Prioritize and make progress on multiple tasks
- Be motivated to achieve challenging goals
- 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.
- Experience with Requirements flow down/requirement allocation/requirement tracking
- Ability to travel roughly 25% per year (mostly to Colorado Springs)
- Experience with data analysis or scripting languages such as Python, MATLAB
- Active DoW Secret Security Clearance
- Experience on Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX) Program
- Ideal candidate has a strong software background, including Java or C++ coding experience
- Satellite payload or ground system design
- SOA integration, JMS messaging
- UI testing
- Oracle Weblogic…
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