Scientist, RF Systems Advanced Concept Engineer

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Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor in the defense industry. 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: Scientist, RF Systems Advanced Concept Engineer - Plano, TX / Clifton, NJ / Palm Bay, FL - Secret

Job Code: 30283

Job Location: Palm Bay, FL, Plano, TX, or Clifton, NJ

Job Schedule: 9/80 (Every other Friday off!)

Relocation: Relocation assistance is available to qualified applicants

The Advanced Concept Engineer (ACE) provides strategic technical leadership and innovation 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 using both business acumen and strong technical knowledge. The ACE will 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 must consider all 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, strong technical skills across multiple domains, the ability to perform competitive assessment, and a keen understanding and experience in project engineering management and development program execution.

The Advanced Concept Engineer must 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, shape the market and the L3

Harris approach to offerings. The ACE is expected to innovate and be disciplined in capturing artifacts to lead the creation of white papers and proposals, requests for proposals, information and broad agency announcements. The ACE provides market and subject matter expert guidance to business strategy and existing development efforts. The ACE must demonstrate communication and interpersonal skills, coupled with the ability to work within a large engineering enterprise and with external partners as required.

• Interpretation of customers’ mission needs with a focus on identifying mission gaps and addressable market
• Advocates the customer’s critical needs to internal stakeholders
• Builds business case and manages discretionary resources
• Roadmaps organic technology, discretionary funding, external partner capabilities, and customer funded studies to 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/or 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…