Senior Systems Engineer: Sign-on Bonus

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree and at least 6 years of relevant experience, or a graduate degree and at least 4 years of relevant experience; alternatively, 10 years of prior related experience in lieu of a degree.
• Eligibility to obtain a DoD Secret security clearance.
• Experience with infrared or electro-optical sensing systems, space or missile-defense missions, systems engineering processes, and performance assessment methods.
• Preferred: Experience developing spacecraft, satellites, or other complex aerospace systems at subsystem, system, or vehicle level.
• Preferred: Experience architecting, analyzing, developing, and integrating end-to-end systems, including EO/IR, RF, space payload, or spacecraft bus subsystems.
• Preferred: Experience with requirements management, interface control, system integration, verification and validation, and technical baseline management across the product lifecycle.
• Preferred: Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering, requirements management tools, and configuration management processes.
• Preferred: Experience developing embedded software or firmware; proficiency in Python; and experience with data analysis, modeling and simulation, or cost estimating and management.
• Preferred: Familiarity with program management, cost account management, and integrated product teams; an active security clearance is also preferred.
• Strong analytical, interpersonal, and communication skills, including the ability to collaborate across functions and leadership levels, explain technical issues clearly, and work with general direction in a demanding, multi-site development environment.
• Ability to write code in Python and/or C/C++.

Responsibilities:

• Support development of image and video processing algorithms for space-based infrared systems, including target detection and tracking approaches.
• Analyze sensor and algorithm performance, including for system-level trade studies, and contribute to systems engineering trade studies, concept of operations development, and modeling and simulation.
• Define, analyze, decompose, and generate system requirements; maintain requirements traceability and develop test plans that address those requirements.
• Support sensor and payload performance analysis, calibration planning and execution, and definition of verification methods and success criteria.
• Work with embedded software, firmware, hardware, software, modeling and simulation, and test teams to optimize, implement, integrate, and evaluate system solutions.
• Support integration and testing of electro-optical and infrared systems and associated hardware and software.
• Develop and improve instrument documentation, processes, technical specifications, interface control documents, test plans, and procedures; assess conformance to specifications.
• Verify compliance with requirements and validate system performance against mission objectives.
• Contribute to technical reviews, risk-reduction activities, and the translation of mission needs into actionable engineering requirements.
• Build subject-matter expertise in the relevant technical area.

Technologies:

• Embedded
• Firmware
• Hardware
• Support
• Python
• Security

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We are L3Harris Technologies, a defense technology company delivering end-to-end solutions across space, air, land, sea, and cyber domains in support of national security missions. Our Spectral Solutions division is seeking a Senior Specialist, Systems Engineer to help develop advanced space-based remote-sensing systems for missile warning and missile defense. This is an onsite position in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with a 9/80 schedule that provides every other Friday off. We foster an inclusive, engaging workplace focused on professional growth, work-life success, our communities, and excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer and maintain a drug-free workplace; pre-employment substance testing and background checks may be conducted where permitted by law. Many positions require the ability to obtain a security clearance, which may be granted only to U.S. citizens, and candidates accepting a conditional offer may be subject to government security investigations. We may share submitted application materials with our subsidiaries and affiliates to consider candidates for other openings. We are an E-Verify Employer.

last updated 43 week of 2026