Sr Scientist, Systems Engineer (Space Vehicle Architect)

Job Title: Sr Scientist, Systems Engineer (Space Vehicle Architect)

Job Code: 18722

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

Job Description:

L3Harris' Space and Airborne Systems seeks an Enterprise Space Vehicle Architect to join our growing team. The person in this position will be deployed as a Enterprise Space Vehicle Architect across the space sector at L3Harris, responsible for the technical strategy and baseline for proposal pursuits. While the focus of this role is primarily on the front end of the program in the Capture, Proposal, the baseline established must also consider the Program Execution and Operations phase. This role is based heavily in the pre-award concept development, initial architecture and development of interfaces and component requirements through preliminary design phase. The Enterprise Space Vehicle Architect will work closely with the program Mission CSE and Space Vehicle Engineer to collaborate with all functional disciplines during new pursuits to establish a technical baseline.

Essential Functions:

• Work closely with Business Development and Customer facing teams to formulate space vehicle concepts for integrated spacecraft busses, mission payloads and communications payloads to meet mission objectives
• Ability to perform top level mission analysis and trades such as conops, DITL, coverage maps, revisit rates, etc in support of mission formulation
• Perform top level system and subsystem sizing in multiple space vehicle disciplines: thermal, propulsion, attitude control, orbit dynamics, electrical power, avionics, mechanical, telecom, etc
• Lead agile technical teams in performing detail system and subsystem trades and analyses
• Incorporate lessons learned from existing programs into future baselines to improve engineering excellence and program execution

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of 15 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 19 years of prior related experience
• Active TS/SCI security clearance
• Experience in following areas:
  • Front-end concept development for space vehicle technologies
  • Technical response on mission or space vehicle white papers, RFI, and RFP efforts
  • System-level requirements verification including allocation, flowdown, analysis, testing, & demonstration
  • Strong understanding in space vehicle design considerations in various orbital regimes: radiation, space charging, thermal, telecom, power, propulsion, disposal, etc
  • System level orbital analysis to optimize coverage and revisit times
  • Familiarity with System-level performance analysis (e.g., image analysis, thermal analysis, structural analysis, end-to-end performance, reliability analysis)
  • Hardware/Software integration, testing, and troubleshooting
• Experience in mentoring and growing technical staff
• Experience balancing technical, cost and schedule requirements

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Familiarity with Digital Engineering and MBSE tools such as DOORs, CAMEO, CREO, JIRA
• Track record of leading technical teams in mission and/or space vehicle pursuits including RFI, RFP responses, resulting in contract award
• Accustomed to leading technical engagement with internal and external customers in formal presentations as well as informal brainstorming sessions
• Experience in authoring technical volumes, publications, white papers, intellectual property
• Experience with system-level requirements verification including allocation, flowdown, analysis, testing, & demonstration
• Well versed in functions, responsibilities and interconnectivities between Space Segment, Ground Segment and Launch Segment

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 $157,000-$291,000. 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 $180,500-$335,000. 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 March 31, 2025.