Specialist Systems Engineer
Listed on 2026-10-27
-
Engineering
Systems Engineer
L3
Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3
Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.
L3
Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. 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.
Specialist Systems Engineer Job Code 46583
Job Location:
Waco, TX On-Site
Schedule:
9/80 Regular:
Off every other Friday, 1st Shift
Job Description:
Work as part of a development team in the Systems Engineering department which includes support of requirement development, design and architecture generation, test, integration, and certification of complex systems installed on airborne platforms.
Essential Functions:- Design and develop physical architectures incorporating mission system equipment into airborne systems for military and commercial customers. These systems vary from program to program, so the ability to quickly learn and integrate new systems is critical. This requires a baseline understanding of electrical and mechanical systems.
- Translate customer and airworthiness requirements into unique verifiable system level requirements
- Lead Program Integrated Product Teams of cross-disciplined engineers with internal and external members
- Become a focal point for conversation with the customer on technical issues
- Define requirement traceability methods
- Perform the systems engineering trade study process
- Evaluate trade studies for accuracy and completeness
- Write subsystem specifications based on system level requirements
- Evaluate alternative solutions and establish preliminary system design
- Prepare effective presentations to communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical professionals
- Ability to use standard Microsoft Office suite of applications
- Ability to operate within a Product Lifecycle Manager (PLM);
Team Center preferred
- Minimum of 4 years of Systems engineering experience with requirements and systems documentation.
- Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate engineering discipline (Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, Software, Physics, etc.) and a minimum of 4 years related work experience, or
- Graduate Degree in an appropriate engineering discipline (Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, Software, Physics, etc.) and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience, or
- Minimum of 8 years of prior work experience in a directly applicable field.
Skills:
- Experience in managing system requirements.
- Experience in requirements decomposition.
- Preferred Active Secret Clearance – Ability to receive a clearance.
- Prior experience integrating mission systems or interiors on airborne platforms.
- DOORS experience
- Experience conducting first article verification testing
- Excellent written, oral, and presentation communication skills
- Experience working with subcontractors and US Government customers.
- Experience working successfully both independently and in a team environment with the ability to lead teams through a system development and integration cycle.
L3
Harris Technologies is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. L3
Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without…
(If this job is in fact in your jurisdiction, then you may be using a Proxy or VPN to access this site, and to progress further, you should change your connectivity to another mobile device or PC).