Specialist Systems Engineer

L3Harris 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. L3Harris 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. L3Harris 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.

We are currently seeking a Systems Engineer for conducting systems engineering activities across the full system lifecycle for complex Defence capability projects. The role ensures technical solutions are coherent, verifiable, compliant, and aligned to customer and operational requirements. This is achieved through participation in all phases of the systems engineering lifecycle including requirements management, architecture development, design, implementation, integration, verification & validation, risk and change management. You will join a team of 4 other system engineers reporting to our Systems Engineering Manager.   What the role will involve Key responsibilities include: Work in a multi-disciplinary team with primary responsibility for the application of systems engineering processes in accordance with organisational procedures and recognised standards to ensure timely and professional delivery of project outcomes. Perform requirements analysis, decomposition, allocation, traceability, verification planning, and compliance management. Establish and maintain the technical baseline system, including requirements, architecture, interfaces, design decisions, assumptions, risks, and verification evidence. Develop, review, and maintain key systems engineering artefacts, including specifications, architecture & descriptions, interface control documents, verification artefacts, trade studies, technical reports, and systems engineering plans. Engage in system architecture and interface management activities to ensure the solution is technically coherent, feasible, secure, supportable, and aligned with operational needs. Support engineering decisions through structured trade studies, technical analysis, option assessment, and evidence-based recommendations. Contribute to systems engineering estimates, schedules, scope definition, resource planning, and technical delivery planning. Contribute to the development and maintenance of verification and validation strategies, plans, procedures, matrices, and evidence to demonstrate compliance with applicable requirements. Support integration, test readiness, verification execution, defect resolution, and customer acceptance activities. Support internal and customer technical reviews, including requirements, design, test readiness, production readiness, verification, and acceptance reviews. Support management of technical risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, opportunities, and engineering change impacts. Support configuration management and engineering change control to ensure the approved technical baseline is maintained. Coordinate with specialty engineering disciplines, including safety, security, cyberworthiness, ILS, reliability, maintainability, human factors, EMI/EMC, and environmental qualification. Support Defence technical assurance, certification, compliance, and acceptance activities, including preparation of objective quality evidence Participate in internal engineering and quality processes, including non-conformance reports, failure reports, corrective actions, investigations, lessons learned, and continuous improvement activities. Communicate effectively with customers, suppliers, stakeholders, and internal teams, including