Lead, Chief Systems Engineer

Job Title: Lead, Chief Systems Engineer

Job Code: 36945

Job Location: Colorado Springs, CO

Job Schedule: 980

Job Description:  

L3Harris Technologies is seeking a Radar Chief Systems Engineer to support radar‑related programs at our Colorado Springs location. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to critical mission‑focused systems within a rapidly growing defense environment. The position plays a key role in developing and sustaining advanced solutions for high‑priority assets and requires strong collaboration within a team of experienced professionals.

Essential Functions: 

• Ensure systems‑engineering processes—whether traditional waterfall or agile/scrum—are properly followed and executed across the program.


• Maintain the accuracy, integrity, and quality of the program’s technical baseline.


• Review system requirements, preliminary designs, peer reviews, detailed designs, and test plans.


• Lead development of CONOPS, conduct trade studies, and perform requirements analysis and verification for radar systems and subsystems.


• Communicate effectively with internal stakeholders and external partners, including government customers.


• Support system integration as well as verification and validation activities


• Translate customer or product requirements into complete system solutions that balance technical, schedule, and cost constraints.


• Conduct functional and timeline analyses.


• Perform cost, risk, supportability, and effectiveness analyses across the full system lifecycle (concept through disposal).


• Develop roadmaps to maintain, enhance, or introduce mission capabilities.


• Track and ensure performance against key technical performance measures.


• Contribute to a dynamic development and integration lab involving both hardware and software systems.


• Support or lead technical proposal efforts, including requirements decomposition, system architecture/design, technical writing, risk management, and cost estimation.


• Create SysML models and/or DoDAF views using MagicDraw.


• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams, including:
  
  
  
  • Electrical/RF Engineering
  
  
  • Mechanical Engineering
  
  
  • Systems Engineering
  
  
  • Test Engineering
  
  
  • Software Engineering
  
  
  • Specialty Engineering (human factors, safety, reliability, maintainability, logistics)
  
  
  
  


•  Lead root‑cause investigations and corrective‑action teams.


• Travel up to 10% as required.

Qualifications: 

• 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.


• Must have technical leadership experience for teams of larger than 50 People


• Experience in at least one of the following areas: radar software, signal processing, and/or RF hardware


• Secret security clearance required

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Previous work experience with phased array radars, high power amplifiers, digital beamforming, SDA mission prosecution, LPAR, HWIL simulation, surveillance, signal processing


• Previous work experience with CAMEO Systems modeler/ MagicDraw


• Knowledge of Kubernetes environments, in particular experience with Redhat Openshift Containerized Platform (OCP)


• Working experience in Agile framework

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in Colorado State is $110,500 - $205,500. 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.