Job Title: Senior Scientist, Systems Engineer
Job Code: 32411
Job Location: Melbourne, Florida
Job Schedule: 9/80 (Every other Friday off)
Job Description:
The Advanced Concept Engineer (ACE) provides strategic technical leadership to draw on L3Harris' technical competencies to meet the business needs of L3Harris and its customers. The ACE is the technical interface between L3Harris 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 L3Harris 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 L3Harris. 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.
The Advanced Concept Engineer should be a subject matter expert in multiple technical domains with an entrepreneurial background. This individual will work closely with business development and senior management to respond to customer needs with technical presentations, white papers and proposals; requests for proposals, information and broad agency announcements; and provide market and subject matter expert guidance to business strategy and existing development efforts. Demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills, coupled with the ability to work cross-functionally between a large engineering enterprise and external partners is required.
Essential Functions:
1. Interpretation of customers' mission needs with a focus on identifying mission gaps and addressable market
2. Advocates customer critical needs to internal stakeholders
3. Builds business cases and manages discretionary resources
4. Roadmaps organic technology, discretionary funding, external partner capabilities, and customer funded studies to build new business opportunities
5. Performs technical and management competitive assessments to clearly communicate why and how the new business opportunities provide value to L3Harris and the customer
6. Evaluates customer and operational needs to help define and coordinate high level system performance, physical, functional, and program interface requirements
7. Synthesis and life cycle ownership of mission architecture
8. Generation of the initial Concept of Operations (CONOPS) or Operational Descriptions Document (ODD)
9. Generation of initial system architecture views; decomposing opportunity to addressable configuration items in a compressive value chain framework
10. Leads the development of appropriate solutions to customer needs
11. Demonstrates broad and deep technical knowledge; accesses Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) as needed
12. Determines whether requirements can be met with existing capabilities/designs or if new design requirements must be developed
13. Leads and coordinates various analyses to optimize total system of systems and/or system architecture
14. Assess and provide direction for make/buy decisions and selection of strategic suppliers
15. Establishes the technology integration or migration strategies
16. Leads and perform trade studies required to make both tactical and strategic technical decisions for pursuit
17. Provides technical coordination between customer, industry, and internal engineering groups to articulate technical issues
18. Prepares and presents technical information that addresses specific subjects of interest
19. Analyzes and develops recommendations to resolve contractual technical issues
20. Maintains a macro view of L3Harris' existing and emerging technologies
21. Leads and coordinates pursuit activities such as technical baseline reviews, request for input (RFI) responses, request for proposal (RFP) responses, and white papers.
Qualifications:
22. Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of 15 years of prior related 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.
23. Demonstrated experience working with EW systems, including signals analysis, hardware design approaches, industry best practices, and techniques against adversary systems.
24. Previous experience executing DoD/government programs
25. Proven technical business development skills
26. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
27. Excels in communication, adeptly translating complex technical concepts for diverse audiences, including non-technical stakeholders and cross-functional teams
28. Experience with functional and physical architecture development
29. Experience collaborating in a team environment
30. Ability to work autonomously and with others to resolve technical issues
31. Active Top Secret Security Clearance.
Preferred Additional Skills:
32. Current US Government Top Secret//SCI Security Clearance
33. Deep expertise in RF Engineering including Ideation, analysis of alternatives, and link budgets
34. Knowledge of the requirements and challenges associated with developing counter communications solutions for man-pack systems.
35. Experience with AI tools and frameworks for developing intelligent systems and automating processes
36. Offensive and defensive Cyber mission experience with the ability to identify core mission gaps and influence customer solution space
37. Demonstrated entrepreneurial success
38. Demonstrated quick reaction technical team leadership experience
39. Previous experience with SOCOM
40. Broad experience working with and for Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC) — both domestic and international