
Lead System Engineer
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The Lead Systems Engineer works within L3Harris’s ISR Networks Systems team across programs including Global Hawk, Triton, Hawklink, and P-8A. The role focuses on requirements and system design from contract inception through product delivery and sustainment, and leads programs toward successful completion. The position supports program leadership with systems-level technical work and contributes to requirements definition, documentation, testing, troubleshooting, and engineering cost and schedule management.
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L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.
L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. 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.
Job Title: Lead, Systems Engineer
Job Code: 46523
Job Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Job Schedule: 9/80;employees work 9 out of 14 days- totaling 80 hours worked- and have every other Friday of
Job Description:
Systems Engineer Lead will work within ISR Networks Systems team. Position will work within various programs such as Global Hawk, Triton, Hawklink, and P-8A. This role will focus on working with requirements and system design from the inception of the contract to the delivery and sustainment of product. This position will work as a program leader in directing programs to a successful completion.
Essential Functions:
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Support the Program Manager and Program Engineer with Systems level technical support
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Define and verify System Level Requirements
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Work Product Documentation such as System and lower level specifications, Interface Control Documents, Block Diagrams, and Interconnect diagrams.
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Testing and Troubleshooting product in a lab environment.
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Using Earned Value Management System (EVMS) to mangage the Cost and Schedule of engineering tasking.
Qualifications:
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Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
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Experience working in Systems Engineering and with Engineering processes.
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Able to obtain a DoD Security Clearance
Preferred Additional Skills:
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Experience in working with EVMS as a Control Account Manager
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Experience working on DoD contracts
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Experience working within a lab setting and performing Design Verification type testing.
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Lead Systems Engineering experience
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L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.
Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain a security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens. In addition, applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment may be subject to government security investigation(s) and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
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How this job compares
Set against the 10,995 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Utah median$98–178K/yr239 salary ranges
- US median$60–70/hr396 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 325 open Systems Engineer jobs in Utah and 10,995 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Utah
- Northrop Grumman169 open
- L3Harris (this employer)29 open
- BAE Systems18 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 13 years of experience — more than three in four Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 9,191 postings).
- Education
- 4,697 of the 10,995 open Systems Engineer jobs (43%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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