Senior Specialist, Systems Engineer; Mission Payload

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Job Title: Senior Specialist, Systems Engineer – Mission Payload
Job Code: 46151
Job Location: Fort Wayne, Indiana
Job Schedule: 9/80 (Every Other Friday Off!)

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Harris is seeking a Senior Specialist, Systems Engineer to support development of a space-based Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) mission payload sensor system. This role will perform systems engineering functions across the program lifecycle, contributing to technical planning, requirements development, interface coordination, system integration, verification planning, and engineering analysis.

The selected candidate will work in a multidisciplinary environment to help ensure the payload system is technically sound, executable, and aligned to mission and program objectives. In addition to core systems engineering responsibilities, this position will also support Cost Account Management (CAM) activities, including planning, tracking, and reporting on scope, schedule, and cost performance for assigned engineering work packages.

This role is ideal for an engineer who combines sound systems engineering fundamentals with strong organizational, coordination, and program execution skills. This position is in Indiana:

• Support systems engineering activities for a space-based EO/IR mission payload system through design, development, integration, test, and verification.
• Develop, decompose, allocate, and maintain system, subsystem, and component-level requirements.
• Support requirements traceability and verification planning across the payload development lifecycle.
• Coordinate definition and management of internal and external interfaces across payload subsystems and with spacecraft or mission elements.
• Contribute to development and maintenance of systems engineering artifacts such as specifications, verification matrices, interface documentation, technical plans, and trade study documentation.
• Perform and support system-level analyses, trade studies, and technical assessments to evaluate design approaches, performance, and compliance with mission requirements.
• Support system integration and test planning, discrepancy resolution, and technical issue closure.
• Participate in major technical reviews including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, and related customer or internal reviews.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including optics, focal plane, electronics, software, mechanical, thermal, integration and test, quality, reliability, and mission operations.
• Identify and communicate technical risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies and support mitigation planning.
• Help maintain technical baseline consistency through disciplined configuration and change management practices.
• Job is onsite in Fort Wayne, Indiana

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related STEM discipline and a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience; or a Graduate degree and a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience. In lieu of a degree,…