Director, Digital Design and Signal Processing

Job Title: Director Digital Design and Signal Processing

Job Code: 25631

Job Location: SLC Utah

Job Schedule: 9/80-Employees work 9 out of every 14 days totaling 80 hours worked and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

L3Harris is currently seeking an Engineering Director to lead the Broadband Communication Systems (BCS) Sector Digital Design and Signal Processing team. The Engineering Director will lead a team of 200 engineers and managers in support of the BCS sector product and program portfolio. This role will coordinate all digital design and signal processing engineering needs for the site and direct engineering execution for the programs proposals and pursuits in this portfolio. The Engineering Director will report to the Vice President of Engineering of the BCS sector.

Essential Functions:

Create vision strategy and execute against the plan to help build a best-in-class Engineering team

Coordinate all Digital Design and Signal Processing support (personnel lab resources tools) required to perform on all programs and product developments within the business area. Closely track engineering demand and ensure the team is right-sized properly skilled and equipped.

Ensure allocation of resources is aligned with business priorities and identify solutions for the optimal utilization of resources

Hire attract retain and grow top talent creating a cohesive culture that fosters innovation execution transparency and collaboration

Provide mentorship and growth opportunities for engineering and management staff within the organization

Direct engineering program technical schedule and cost performance for projects with Digital Design and Signal Processing scope to include proposal reviews and cost approvals engineering program reviews and oversight of key technical decisions

Contribute to new business pursuits by growing cross-functional relationships in new business development and across business areas

Technical training of the organization and advancement of technology through industry interaction and continued education of technical staff

Partner and work very closely with the Engineering Leadership team Business Development and Program Management to ensure strategy alignment execution of projects and cross-team collaboration to achieve sector objectives

Active U.S. security clearance or the ability to obtain preferred

Required Qualifications:

Bachelors Degree with a minimum of 15 years of prior related (preferred areas of study include Electrical Engineering experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 13 years of prior related lieu of a degree minimum of 19 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

Advanced degree in Engineering and/or Management

Deep experience in Electrical Engineering and prior work experience within the Defense industry

Senior management experience with multiple sub-managers.

Experience and demonstrated competence in technical leadership (project engineer or other technical lead) for large complex programs

Experience managing the engineering content of large DoD proposals and/or new business pursuits

Experience in system level development requirements definition analysis integration and risk mitigation for large communications systems

Deep experience with Earned Value management (EVMS) metrics and data driven decisions

Strong team player with experience managing highly technical teams

Ability to communicate confidently and concisely to both engineers and executive management

Proven ability to translate the vision/strategy into clear priorities and direction

Track record of being highly collaborative with a proven ability to quickly establish trust and credibility among peers and customers

Experience navigating matrix organizations to identify key stakeholders and create efficiencies in related efforts

Experience leading development and production of digital and signal processing systems including FPGA design software signal processing (GPPs GPUs MIMD) low-level software and machine learning/AI

Experience with Agile development in a Government contractor setting

Experience with Python VHDL C C C# and/or Matlab

Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively with customers and teammates

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