Job Title: Specialist, Electronic Warfare Systems Engineering

Job Code: 45285

Job Location: Clifton, NJ

Job Schedule: 9/80- employees work 9 out of 14 days- totaling 80 hours worked- and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

The Systems Engineer, Specialist supports production and sustainment activities for complex RF and Digital electronic systems and their subcomponents. The position emphasizes system-level and subassembly-level support, including troubleshooting, test, failure analysis, configuration management, yield improvement, RCCA support, and coordination of engineering actions across the product lifecycle. The role requires communication and collaboration across all engineering disciplines, operations, manufacturing, test, quality, supply chain, and program management teams.

Essential Functions:

• Troubleshoot, test, analyze, and document production and sustainment hardware issues inclusive of but not limited to the following:

o EW Systems

o RF Receivers (Analog and Digital)

o RF Transmitters

o RF MCAs, Modules, Components, Cables

o Digital CCAs, embedded processing hardware, FPGA-based assemblies

o Antennas and Antenna AssembliesSupport troubleshooting and root cause investigations for production failures, test anomalies, yield issues, and returned hardware.

• Support Test Station and Test Bench troubleshooting and repair.
• Communication and collaboration across all engineering disciplines, operations, manufacturing, test, quality, supply chain, and program management teams.
• Review engineering changes, part substitutions, deviations, waivers, and obsolescence impacts on digital CCA functionality, interfaces, and system performance.
• Support configuration management, requirements traceability, and technical baseline control for released hardware.
• Assist with nonconformance investigations, failure review boards, corrective actions, and reliability improvement initiatives.
• Review production and test data to identify recurring defects, process issues, performance trends, and opportunities for yield improvement.
• Support regression, verification, validation, and acceptance test activities.
• Contribute to risk assessments, producibility improvements, and transition-to-sustainment activities.
• Prepare technical documentation, issue summaries, status updates, and engineering recommendations supporting production and sustainment activities.
• Up to 10% travel, as required
• Ability to obtain and maintain a secret level clearance

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Computer, Mechanical, Aerospace, Systems Engineering, or related technical field and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Obtain and maintain a security clearance higher than secret level
• Minimum of 1 year working across cross-functional teams to resolve hardware or production-related issues.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in manufacturing support, product sustainment, failure analysis, or field support.
• Background in aerospace, defense, communications, radar, or other mission-critical electronics environments.
• Familiarity with production screening, acceptance test, qualification regression, and environmental test support.
• Familiarity with component obsolescence, part substitutions, and configuration/change control processes.
• Experience working with suppliers, PCB fabrication, CCA assembly, and manufacturing/test organizations.
• Experience reviewing RF test data and assessing hardware performance trends.
• Leadership of small technical teams
• Experience with Cost Account Management and Earned Value methods
• Ability to lift to 20 lbs

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Washington, and the Greater D.C. area, Denver, or NYC areas is $92,500-$171.500. 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.

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