Senior 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.

A Senior Systems Engineer is responsible for leading 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.     What the role will involve   The responsibilities of your role will include the following:   Lead requirements analysis, decomposition, allocation, traceability, verification planning, and compliance management   Establish and maintain the system technical baseline, 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   Lead 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   Develop and maintain 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   Plan, prepare, and support internal and customer technical reviews, including requirements, design, test readiness, production readiness, verification, and acceptance reviews   Manage 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.   Provide technical leadership, task guidance, peer review, and mentoring to junior engineers and other engineering team members.   Support adherence to company Quality processes and procedures, including those required for AS9100 accreditation        What you’ll bring    The role requires the following experience and skills:   Degree in electronic/electrical