Scientist, Systems Engineer (Space Vehicle - Electrical)

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Job Title: Scientist Systems Engineering (Space Vehicle Electrical)

Job Code: 24695

Job Location:Remote or Palm Bay FL or Rochester NY or Fort Wayne IN or San Diego CA or Colorado Springs CO

Job Description:

L3Harris Space and Airborne Systems seeks a Space Vehicle (SV) Electrical Systems Engineer (ESE) to join our growing individual in this role will act as the primary electrical systems engineer responsible for mechanical integration of the spacecraft bus mission payload and communication payload to ensure seamless end-to-end mission ESE has overall technical responsibility for the electrical design development integration and test for the Space Vehicle and serves as the primary software point of contact for external segments test and operations. The ESE will coordinate and/or perform test and analysis integration activities to ensure the system meets Customer and Mission requirements. The ESE will coordinate all electrical technical efforts to generate contractually required system design documents and design review technical packages.

Essential Functions:

• Manages and maintains the electrical integration of the spacecraft bus mission payload and communications payload according to internal and external ICDs
• Generation and coordination of electrical design specifications and interface (internal and external) documents including requirements derivation allocation and flow up/down and V&V activities
• Extracts mechanical and environmental requirements from mission-level and CONOPs and cascades them to the spacecraft bus mission payload and communications payload encompassing allocations into software firmware and hardware as well as test beds and simulators.
• Ensures electrical functional and physical allocations changes and requirements compliance are being addressed throughout the SV design.
• Coordinates and/or completes electrical integration activities such as power and link budgets channelization grounding schemes telemetry and command allocations and GNC analyses
• Supports the SEIT organization in planning the electrical integration testing of HW/SW from the subsystem level to the SV level including execution of SV level tests and troubleshooting issues
• Maintains cognizance and communicates changes of the SV subcontractor and in-house electrical design baselines pinouts and interfaces
• Support to the system modeling teams in generation of Cameo system views and simulations as well as ConOps generation
• Works closely with Software Mechanical and Integration and Test Systems Engineers to own and oversees End-to-End integration of spacecraft bus mission payload and communications payload across the full program lifecycle
• Represent Space Vehicle electrical engineering during major system level design reviews such as SRR SDR PDR and CDR and milestone reviews such as MRR TRR PSF LRR and MDR
• Leads or participates in failure review boards engineering review boards change control boards to ensure electrical impacts are coordinated across the SV
• Creating and/or supporting delivery of Customer CDRLS
• Ability to lead diverse technical teams across internal and subcontractor efforts
• 25% travel as required

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree and minimum 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.
• Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering Systems Engineering or adjacent field.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance.
• Experience with electrical integration of spacecraft busses mission payloads and communications payloads for seamless end-to-end mission performance.
• Experience with leading both internal and external supplier electrical engineering teams.
• Experience with electrical integration testing and troubleshooting of complex systems.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Well versed in fleshing out or coordinating physical and functional electrical interface details such as first order circuit compatibility voltage levels current ratings connector types pin configurations grounding requirements signal protocols data rates communications interfaces and EMI/EMC/ESD considerations
• Experienced with electrical requirements validation sell-off milestone entry/exit criteria
• Experienced with software integration planning when there are multiple SW/HW solutions in the loop including flight and test harnesses
• Experience with writing Statement of Works for external and internal suppliers
• Familiarity with electrical engineering processes and/or subsystems such as power guidance navigation and control (GNC) timing frequency and ephemeris (TF&E) command and data handling (C&DH) telemetry tracking and command (TT&C)
• 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; pursuits and proposal design and development integration and test and operations
• Ability to make risk-based decisions balancing technical cost and schedule
• Ability to perform or coordinate Space Vehicle level electrical analyses and trades such channelization power and link budgets power systems analysis electrical loads analysis fault analysis electromagnetic compatibility and worst-case analyses
• Experience in mentoring and growing technical staff
  

In compliance with pay transparency requirements the salary range for this role in California Massachusetts New Jersey Washington and the Greater D.C Denver or NYC areas is $150000 - $278000. The salary range for this role in Colorado state Hawaii Illinois Maryland Minnesota New York state and Vermont is $130500 - $242500. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits including health and disability insurance 401(k) match flexible spending accounts EAP education assistance parental leave paid time off and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire schedule type and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements. The application window for this requisition is anticipated to close August 31 2025.

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