Scientist, Advanced Concept Systems Engineer

Job Title: Scientist, Systems Engineer

Job Code: 24289

Job Location: Palm Bay, Florida, Wilmington, MA, Rochester, NY or DMV area

Job Schedule: 9/80

Job Description:

The Advanced Concept Engineer (ACE) provides strategic technical leadership to draw upon L3Harris' technical competencies to meet the business needs of L3Harris and its customers. The ACE is the technical interface between L3Harris and our customers’ engineering staff, supporting the Business Development staff in the creation of new business opportunities. The successful ACE will engage with customer, engineering, operations, and management personnel to define and document the customer’s mission needs, CONOPS and requirements; perform trade studies; engage L3Harris Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to architect an affordable solution carrying acceptable risk; and provide technical leadership to capture and proposal efforts. The ACE considers the needs, resources, and constraints, including the customer mission, budget limitations, technical preferences, physics boundaries, and the political climate building trust and recognition with the customer. This role requires experience in systems engineering, system-level architecture development, competitive assessment, cost/benefit analyses, and technical management.

The ACE should have subject matter expertiese in multiple technical domains, learning agility, and an entrepreneurial personality. The role requires demonstrated leadership across multiple disciplines, with significant expertise in model-based design and operations for large scale systems integrating multiple technologies and system life-cycle sustainment. The individual will work directly with business development and senior management to define solutions against customer needs and document in technical presentations, white papers, and proposals.

Essential Functions:

Interpret customers’ mission needs; identify mission gaps and customer priorities and challenges in closing these gaps

Advocates the customer’s critical needs to internal stakeholders

Roadmaps organic technology, discretionary funding, external partner capabilities, and customer funded studies to new business opportunities

Assesses competitors and potential partners to define win strategies that maximize value to customers and L3Harris against customer mission needs and requirements

Evaluates customer and operational needs to help define and coordinate high level system performance, physical, functional, and program interface requirements

Synthesis and life cycle ownership of system architecture aligned to mission needs

Development of White Papers, Use Cases, Concept of Operations (CONOPS) or Operational Descriptions Documents (ODD)

Generation and assessment of system-level architecture options; decomposing opportunity to configuration items in a compressive value chain framework

Identifies L3Harris capabilities demonstratable to customers and develops demo scenarios showing L3Harris solution’s benefits vs. operational needs

Leads the development of system-level solutions to customer needs

Demonstrates broad knowledge of relevant technology and solution providers; accesses SMEs as needed to refine technical content and validate feasibility

Determines how requirements can be met with existing internal and external capabilities and assesses impact on cost and mission operations from relaxation or tightening of the requirements

Assesses and provides direction for make/buy decisions and selection of suppliers, including recommendations on strategic partners

Leads and performs trade studies for both tactical and strategic technical decisions for captures and proposals

Facilitates technical coordination between external customer’s engineers, industry engineers and internal engineering groups to articulate technical issues, serving as technical advocate and voice of the customer

Prepares and presents technical information that addresses specific subjects, with technical content complexity aligned to target audience expectations

Analyzes and develops recommendations for resolution of contractual technical issues

Maintains a macro view of L3Harris' existing and emerging technologies and capabilities

Leads and coordinates pursuit activities such as: technical baseline reviews, Request for Information (RFI) responses, and requests for proposals (RFPs).

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in electrical or computer engineering, systems engineering, network engineering, computer science, mathematics, or physics and a minimum of 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.

Must have 10+ years of relevant experience creating and implementing complex mission solutions

Previous experience executing DoD/government programs

Proven technical business development skills and effective oral and written communications skills

Proven success generating technical solutions for winning proposals

Must and retain be able to obtain US Government Top Secret Security Clearance

Preferred Additional Skills:

Previous experience in the generation of new concepts for space technologies.

Leading and executing architecture development work for DoD/government programs using Agile engineering processes

Full program life-cycle experience with demonstrated Engineering team leadership across all disciplines

Experience working with or for space agencies in the Department of Defense (DoD) and/or the Intelligence Community – both domestically and internationally.

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in Colorado State, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Vermont and New York State is $130,500-$242,500. For California, Seattle, Washington D.C., Maryland Greater Washington D.C. area, the city of Denver, Washington State and New York City, the salary range for this role is $150,000-$278,000. 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 30, 2025.