Scientist, Mechanical Engineer

Job Code: 45278

Job Location:

Palm Bay, FL;
Carlsbad, CA;
Chantilly, VA

Job Schedule:

9/80:
Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked, and have every other Friday off

During its 120-year history, L3

Harris has transformed communications and information technology. L3

Harris is a proven leader in tactical communications, geospatial systems and services, air traffic management, environmental solutions, avionics and electronic warfare, and space and intelligence. From ocean to orbit and everywhere in between, we provide mission‑critical solutions to connect, inform and protect the world.

On the L3

Harris team, your job is to secure the world. We don’t work here just for the advanced technology and equipment: we work here because we know what – and who – we’re protecting! From families to the intelligence community, and from our climate to our men and women in uniform – we’re making the world a safer place!

Design and qualify the precision mechanisms behind mission systems used in complex, high‑consequence environments. You’ll own major components and sub‑systems from early concepts through integration and test, helping L3

Harris deliver dependable capability for customers executing their most challenging missions.

This is an on‑site role because the work includes direct lab, prototype, integration, and hardware‑test activity at one of the following sites:
Palm Bay, Florida;
Chantilly, Virginia; or Carlsbad, California.

• Lead mechanical design, analysis, prototype integration, and qualification testing for precision mechanisms and electro‑mechanical hardware.
• Develop 3D models, drawings, technical data packages, and assembly documentation.
• Evaluate material selections and design trades; improve designs for performance, size, weight, power, manufacturability, and reliability.
• Plan and execute component and system‑level tests; analyze results and drive design improvements.
• Present designs and results at internal and customer reviews, including peer reviews, PDRs, and CDRs.
• Partner with manufacturing, quality, configuration management, suppliers, technicians, and the program test team to transition designs into production.
• Support field‑test or demonstration activities as needed.
• Recognized as an internal expert and thought leader in area of expertise with broad experience across multiple job areas. Works under consultative direction against annual goals to manage large, complex project initiatives of strategic importance to the organization. Communicates within and outside of the organization to influence leadership to accept new practices, approaches, and concepts. Develops or champions new systems, concepts, or technologies.
  
  Recommends tactics and strategies that directly impact the achievement of overall business or functional results.

• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 12 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior related experience.
• Active Top Secret or Top Secret/SCI clearance is required. (Active within the last two years will be considered)

• Hands‑on experience designing, developing, integrating, and testing complex mechanical hardware.
• Experience with 3D mechanical CAD, engineering drawings, and tolerance analysis/GD&T.
• Ability to work on‑site in a mis of office and laboratory environments.
• Experience in design or development of precision mechanisms, mechatronic systems, and/or packaging of modules and electronics with considerations of thermal and structural loading and for optimizations of size, weight, and power.
• Proficiency in CAD tools such as Creo and…