L3Harris is looking for an Advanced Concept Engineer (ACE) to provide strategic technical leadership, act as a technical interface between L3Harris and its customers, and support business development by creating new business opportunities. The ACE will define customer CONOPS and requirements, perform trade studies, architect affordable solutions, and lead proposal efforts, considering all needs, resources, and constraints.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience working with EW systems, including signals analysis, hardware design approaches, industry best practices, and techniques against adversary systems.
- Experience with functional and physical architecture development
- Deep expertise in RF Engineering including Ideation, analysis of alternatives, and link budgets
- Knowledge of the requirements and challenges associated with developing counter communications solutions for man-pack systems.
- Experience with AI tools and frameworks for developing intelligent systems and automating processes
- Offensive and defensive Cyber mission experience with the ability to identify core mission gaps and influence customer solution space
- Ability to work autonomously and with others to resolve technical issues
Responsibilities
- Define and document the customer’s CONOPS and requirements
- Perform trade studies
- Architect an affordable solution carrying acceptable risk
- Lead resulting proposal efforts
- Evaluate 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 mission architecture
- Generation of initial system architecture views; decomposing opportunity to addressable configuration items in a compressive value chain framework
Other
- The ACE is the technical interface between L3Harris and our customers’ engineering staffs, supporting the Business Development staff in the creation of new business opportunities.
- The ACE takes into account all of the needs, resources, and constraints, including the customer mission, budget limitations, technical preferences, physics boundaries, and the political climate, in a manner that creates trust in the ACE as well as L3Harris.
- Demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills, coupled with the ability to work cross-functionally between a large engineering enterprise and external partners is required.
- Previous experience executing DoD/government programs
- Active Top Secret Security Clearance.
