Lead, Systems Engineer (Space Vehicle - Electrical)

$106,500 - $197,500/Yr

L3Harris Technologies - Palm Bay, FL

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Palm Bay, FL

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Lead, Systems Engineer (Space Vehicle - Electrical) at L3Harris is responsible for the electrical systems engineering of spacecraft, ensuring seamless integration of the spacecraft bus, mission payload, and communication payload. This role involves overseeing the electrical design, development, integration, and testing processes, while serving as the primary point of contact for software and external segments. The engineer will coordinate testing and analysis activities to meet customer and mission requirements, and will manage the generation of necessary design documents and technical packages.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain the electrical integration of the spacecraft bus, mission payload, and communications payload according to internal and external ICDs.
• Generate and coordinate electrical design specifications and interface documents, including requirements derivation and V&V activities.
• Extract mechanical and environmental requirements from mission-level and CONOPs, cascading them to the spacecraft bus and payloads.
• Ensure compliance with electrical functional and physical allocations throughout the SV design.
• Coordinate and complete electrical integration activities such as power and link budgets, telemetry, and command allocations.
• Support planning and execution of electrical integration testing from subsystem to SV level, including troubleshooting.
• Maintain cognizance of changes in the SV subcontractor and in-house electrical design baselines.
• Support system modeling teams in generating Cameo system views and simulations.
• Work closely with Software, Mechanical, and Integration and Test Systems Engineers for end-to-end integration.
• Represent Space Vehicle electrical engineering during major system level design reviews and milestone reviews.
• Lead or participate in failure review boards and change control boards to coordinate electrical impacts across the SV.
• Create and support delivery of Customer CDRLS.
• Lead diverse technical teams across internal and subcontractor efforts.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or adjacent field.
• Minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience, or 7 years with a graduate degree, or 13 years in lieu of a degree.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance.
• Experience with electrical integration of spacecraft busses, mission payloads, and communications payloads.
• Experience leading internal and external supplier electrical engineering teams.
• Experience with electrical integration, testing, and troubleshooting of complex systems.

Nice-to-haves

• Well versed in coordinating physical and functional electrical interface details.
• Experienced with electrical requirements validation and milestone entry/exit criteria.
• Experienced with software integration planning with multiple SW/HW solutions.
• Experience writing Statement of Works for suppliers.
• Familiarity with electrical engineering processes and subsystems such as power and GNC.
• Familiarity with Digital Engineering and MBSE tools such as DOORs, CAMEO, CREO, JIRA.
• Strong track record of leading electrical engineering teams through all phases of a space program.
• Ability to perform or coordinate Space Vehicle level electrical analyses and trades.
• Experience in mentoring and growing technical staff.

Benefits

• Health and disability insurance
• 401(k) match
• Flexible spending accounts
• EAP
• Education assistance
• Parental leave
• Paid time off
• Company-paid holidays