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Sr. Associate, Systems Engineer

Salt Lake City, Utah
Full Time On-site

Summary

Job Description

The role encompasses systems engineering activities across hardware, software, and integrated system solutions, ensuring technical excellence and alignment with customer requirements, industry standards, and organizational objectives. The Sr Associate Systems Engineer will apply systems engineering principles and methodologies to drive technical decision-making, facilitate stakeholder collaboration, and ensure successful delivery of engineering solutions throughout all phases of the system development lifecycle – from the proposal phase of a program to customer fielding end user support.

Essential Functions:

  • Assist in the planning and execution of technical tasks in a focused, high-productivity, collaborative environment while maintaining alignment with program objectives and milestones.
  • Manage and track customer, derived, and allocated requirements across all system levels, including decomposition and allocation of requirements based on system-level analysis and design, ensuring traceability and bidirectional linkage from a verification test matrix to customer and system-level derived requirements.
  • Support the development of technical specifications, interface control documents, system architecture documentation, test plans and procedures, configuration analysis and processing solutions, verification and validation strategies, and test reports documenting conformance to specifications and acceptance criteria.
  • Design, develop, integrate, and test systems as part of a cross-functional team, applying systems engineering principles to ensure technical performance, interoperability, quality, and compliance with requirements. This may require hands-on testing in a lab environment.
  • Manage tasks to achieve technical compliance within cost and schedule constraints
  • Availability to travel 10-40% of the time to customer and subcontractor sites in support of technical meetings, demonstration events, and verification activities
  • Ability to obtain a secret security clearance.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in an applicable engineering or STEM discipline and minimum 2 years of prior relevant experience or Graduate Degree in an applicable engineering or STEM discipline. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 4 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

  • Presentation and communication skills (verbal/written/visual) with the ability to effectively convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
  • Demonstrated problem solving skills with the ability to meet critical deadlines in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
  • Understand coordination of projects and roles of multi-disciplinary technical support personnel
  • Experience designing, building, testing, and optimizing complex communications systems, either SATCOM or line-of-sight, for military applications
  • Experience working with RF lab test equipment including signal generators, spectrum analyzers, and power meters
  • Familiarity with systems engineering tools and software applications for requirements management, modeling and simulation, configuration management, and technical documentation.
  • Knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methodologies and tools
  • Experience supporting customer engagements, technical reviews, and program milestone events.
  • Experience with Type 1 encryption products and cyber security
  • Active Secret Security Clearance

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About L3 Harris

L3 Harris

L3 Harris is one of the largest defense and aerospace companies in the United States, delivering advanced technologies that support missions across air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains. The company develops communications systems, space payloads, intelligence platforms, electronic warfare capabilities, missile defense technologies, and mission-critical sensors used by the U.S. military, intelligence community, and allied nations around the world.

For job seekers, L3Harris offers opportunities across engineering, software development, cybersecurity, space systems, manufacturing, intelligence, program management, and mission operations. The company is especially attractive to veterans, cleared professionals, and engineers who want to work on advanced technologies that directly support national security. With programs spanning tactical communications, ISR platforms, satellite systems, and defense electronics, employees have the opportunity to contribute to some of the military’s most important capabilities.

Unlike companies focused on a single mission area, L3Harris operates across a diverse portfolio of defense technologies, providing employees exposure to a broad range of programs and technical disciplines. Teams work on everything from secure communications and autonomous systems to space-based sensors and electronic warfare platforms, creating opportunities for both specialization and long-term career growth within the organization.

As governments continue investing in modernization, space capabilities, resilient communications, and advanced sensing technologies, L3Harris remains one of the most important employers in the defense industry. For professionals seeking a mission-driven career with strong growth opportunities, technical challenges, and direct impact on global security, L3Harris continues to stand out as a leading destination in aerospace and defense.

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