Sr Scientist, Systems Engineer (Space Vehicle Architect)

Sr Scientist, Systems Engineering (Space Vehicle Architect)

L3Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor in the defense industry. With customers' mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

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 :

Front-end concept development for space vehicle technologies

Preferred Additional Skills :

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