Senior Scientist, Systems Engineer

L3

Harris Technologies

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. 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.

Senior Scientist, Systems Engineer

32407

Herndon, Virginia

9/80 (Every other Friday off!)

Relocation assistance is available to qualified applicants.

The Advanced Concept Engineer (ACE) provides strategic technical leadership to draw on L3

Harris' technical competencies to meet the business needs of L3

Harris and its customers. The ACE is the technical interface between L3

Harris and our customers’ engineering staff, 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 L3

Harris Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to architect an affordable solution carrying acceptable risk, and lead resulting proposal efforts. The ACE considers 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 L3

Harris. 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.

• 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 L3
  
  Harris 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 performs 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 L3
  
  Harris' existing and emerging…