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Job Title: Senior Specialist, Integration & Test Engineer (Active DoD Secret)

Job Code: 42949

Job Location: Palm Bay, FL

Job Schedule: 9/80 (Every other Friday off)

Job Description:

This role is part of the L3Harris (LHX) Space Systems Sector within the Space and Mission Systems (SMS) Segment.  SMS is the largest and the fastest growing segment within LHX and well postured for continued growth and success in the domain.

This position serves as an Integration and Test Engineer responsible for directing and performing test operations across a suite of space‑payload products. The role combines technical leadership, operational oversight, and hands‑on execution to ensure payload hardware is thoroughly validated. The engineer will manage a small team of engineers and technicians while also actively engaging in test activities to maintain schedule fidelity and support high‑priority operations. Close collaboration with cross‑functional engineering, manufacturing, and program leadership is essential to deliver high quality mission hardware on schedule.

Essential Functions:

• Lead planning and execution of payload‑level test operations, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and thoroughness across multiple products.
• Develop and maintain test strategies, documentation, and workflows that support verification and validation of complex payload hardware.
• Direct daily activities for a small team of engineers and technicians, coordinating assignments, resolving obstacles, and maintaining alignment with program needs.
• Guide test readiness preparations, test sequencing, and execution across environmental, functional, and system‑level campaigns while ensuring proper configuration control.
• Collaborate with engineering disciplines to resolve issues affecting test performance, schedule, or data integrity.
• Serve as the central interface to leadership and customers for payload test status, technical discussions, risks, and mitigation planning.
• Monitor progress, resource usage, and milestones across test operations, providing clear status reporting and contributing to programmatic decision‑making.
• Support proposal and pursuit activities by contributing technical inputs such as test approaches and Basis of Estimate (BOE) data.
• Participate in on‑site testing at internal facilities or partner locations, with travel required up to 10-20%.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience.
• Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience.
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
• Ability to obtain TS/SCI Clearance

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Familiarity with Earned Value Management processes and variance reporting.
• Experience leading integration and test activities for space payloads, spacecraft buses, or other complex aerospace systems.
• Background in developing or executing verification and validation plans for hardware involving environmental testing, functional testing, or space‑qualification processes.
• Knowledge of electrical, mechanical, and software subsystems commonly used in space hardware and how they interact during integration.
• Ability to interpret system‑level requirements and translate them into actionable integration and test strategies.
• Experience establishing and managing test facilities, ground support equipment, or specialized test assets used for space payload or vehicle integration.
• Strong capability in root‑cause analysis and leading resolution of issues discovered during integration or test execution.
• Familiarity with automation and scripting languages (e.g. LabVIEW, Python, Perl, Ruby, PuTTy, MobaXTerm, Visual Studio code).
• Experience with RF measurements and testing, tools, and test equipment (Spectrum Analyzers, Network Analyzers, Logic Analyzers, Signal Generators, O-Scopes, and RF Test Equipment).

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