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Associate, Mechanical Engineering

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Location
Palm Bay, FL
Schedule
Full-time
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Requirements

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TS/SCI clearance, required

Job overview

The Associate, Mechanical Engineering will design and qualify precision mechanisms for mission systems, supporting components and subsystems from concept through integration and test. The role includes mechanical design, analysis, prototyping, qualification testing, and collaboration with manufacturing and program teams to transition designs into production. This is an on-site position in Palm Bay, Florida, with a 9/80 schedule.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Mechanical Design, nice to haveMechanical Analysis, nice to havePrototype Integration, nice to haveQualification Testing, nice to have3D Mechanical CAD, requiredEngineering Drawings, requiredTolerance Analysis, requiredGD&T, requiredPrecision Mechanisms, nice to haveMechatronic Systems, nice to haveThermal and Structural Loading, nice to haveCreo, nice to haveAdditive Manufacturing, nice to haveDesign for Manufacture and Assembly, nice to haveActuators, nice to haveCustom Gear Trains, nice to haveElectro-Optical Systems, nice to haveMaterials Testing, nice to haveManufacturing Processes, nice to have

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent, required2 Years Related Experience, requiredGraduate Degree or Equivalent With 0 to 2 Years Experience, required1 Year Mechanical Hardware Experience, required1 Year CAD and GD&T Experience, requiredActive Top Secret or Top Secret/SCI Clearance, requiredFavorable Polygraph, nice to have

Full job description

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: Associate, Mechanical Engineering

Job Code: 47542

Job Location: Palm Bay, FL (On-Site)

Job Schedule: 9/80 regular (Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off)

Job Description:

During its 120-year history, L3Harris has transformed communications and information technology. L3Harris is a proven leader in tactical communications, geospatial systems and services, air traffic management, environmental solutions, avionics and electronic warfare, and space and intelligence. From ocean to orbit and everywhere in between, we provide mission-critical solutions to connect, inform and protect the world.

On the L3Harris team, your job is to secure the world. We don't work here just for the advanced technology and equipment: we work here because we know what - and who - we're protecting! From families to the intelligence community, and from our climate to our men and women in uniform - we're making the world a safer place!

Design and qualify the precision mechanisms behind mission systems used in complex, high-consequence environments. You’ll own major components and sub-systems from early concepts through integration and test, helping L3Harris deliver dependable capability for customers executing their most challenging missions.

This is an on-site role because the work includes direct lab, prototype, integration, and hardware-test activity at one of the following sites in Palm Bay, FL.

Essential Functions:

  • Support mechanical design, analysis, prototype integration, and qualification testing for precision mechanisms and electro-mechanical hardware.

  • Develop 3D models, drawings, technical data packages, and assembly documentation.

  • Evaluate material selections and design trades; improve designs for performance, size, weight, power, manufacturability, and reliability.

  • Plan and execute component and system-level tests; analyze results and drive design improvements.

  • Support design activities for internal and customer reviews, including peer reviews, PDRs, and CDRs.

  • Partner with manufacturing, quality, configuration management, suppliers, technicians, and the program test team to transition designs into production.

  • Support field-test or demonstration activities as needed.

  • Ability to work on-site in a mis of office and laboratory environments.

Required Qualifications:

  • Requires Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree or equivalent with 0 to 2 years of prior related experience.

  • At least 1 year with designing, developing, integrating, and testing complex mechanical hardware.

  • At least 1 years of experience with 3D mechanical CAD, engineering drawings, and tolerance analysis/GD&T.

  • Active Top Secret or Top Secret/SCI clearance is required. (Active within the last two years will be considered)

Preferred Additional Skills:

  • Experience in design or development of precision mechanisms, mechatronic systems, and/or packaging of modules and electronics with considerations of thermal and structural loading and for optimizations of size, weight, and power.

  • Proficiency in CAD tools such as Creo and understanding of ASME Y14.5 Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing standards.

  • Experience in additive manufacturing, part optimization, and design for manufacture and assembly a plus.

  • Experience with any of the following: actuators, custom gear trains, electro-optical systems, materials testing, and manufacturing processes.

  • Favorable polygraph.

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.

By submitting your resume for this position, you understand and agree that L3Harris Technologies may share your resume, as well as any other related personal information or documentation you provide, with its subsidiaries and affiliated companies for the purpose of considering you for other available positions.

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How this job compares

Set against the 1,768 open Mechanical Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Florida median$92–158K/yr22 salary ranges
  • US median$25–33/hr269 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 46 open Mechanical Engineering jobs in Florida and 1,768 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Florida
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Mechanical Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 995 postings).
Education
770 of the 1,768 open Mechanical Engineering jobs (44%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 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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