About this role
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.
About the Role
L3Harris is seeking expressions of interest from Systems Engineers across multiple experience levels to support the delivery of complex Defence capability projects.
As a Systems Engineer, you will contribute to the development, integration, verification, and support of advanced Defence systems throughout the system lifecycle. Depending on your experience and capability level, you may work under guidance on defined work packages, independently manage technical activities, or lead systems engineering efforts across complex projects.
Working within a multidisciplinary engineering environment, you will apply systems engineering principles and processes to ensure technical solutions are compliant, verifiable, supportable, and aligned to customer and operational requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Apply systems engineering processes and practices in accordance with organisational procedures and recognised industry standards.
- Support and/or lead requirements analysis, decomposition, allocation, traceability, verification planning, and compliance activities.
- Develop and maintain systems engineering artefacts including: Requirements specifications
- Architecture descriptions
- Interface Control Documents (ICDs)
- Verification and validation documentation
- Systems Engineering Management Plans (SEMPs)
- Technical reports and trade studies
- Support and/or lead system architecture development and interface management activities.
- Conduct technical analysis, investigations, modelling, trade studies, and option assessments to inform engineering decisions.
- Establish and maintain technical baselines, including requirements, design documentation, interfaces, assumptions, risks, and verification evidence.
- Support systems integration, verification, validation, test readiness, and customer acceptance activities.
- Participate in technical reviews, including requirements, design, verification, validation, and acceptance reviews.
- Identify and manage technical risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, opportunities, and change impacts.
- Support configuration management and engineering change control processes.
- Collaborate with specialist engineering disciplines including safety, security, cyberworthiness, reliability, maintainability, human factors, EMI/EMC, integrated logistics support, and environmental qualification.
- Support Defence certification, assurance, compliance, and acceptance activities.
- Communicate effectively with customers, suppliers, stakeholders, and internal project teams.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, engineering governance activities, and quality processes including AS9100 compliance.
- Senior candidates may provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to junior engineers and project teams.
Qualifications & Experience
Essential
- Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Experience applying systems engineering principles across the system lifecycle.
- Experience with requirements management, system design, integration, verification, and validation activities.
- Familiarity with systems engineering tools and methodologies.
- Understanding of configuration management, technical risk management, and engineering change processes.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Eligibility for registration with the Board of Professional Engineers of Queensland (RPEQ), where applicable.
- Ability to obtain and maintain an Australian Defence Security Clearance.
Experience by Level
Senior Associate Systems Engineer
- Approximately 2+ years of relevant engineering experience.
- Developing knowledge of systems engineering processes and Defence project environments.
Specialist Systems Engineer
- Approximately 4+ years of relevant systems engineering experience.
- Ability to independently manage technical work packages and contribute to technical decision-making.
Senior Systems Engineer
- Approximately 6+ years of systems engineering experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading systems engineering activities, customer engagements, technical reviews, and mentoring team members.
Desirable
- Experience working within Defence acquisition or sustainment programs.
- Postgraduate qualifications in Systems Engineering.
- Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).
- Knowledge of architecture frameworks such as DoDAF, MOSA, or SOSA.
- Experience working in classified environments.
- Experience with Defence communications systems, RF systems, electronic warfare, mission systems, command and control systems, platform integration, or other complex Defence capabilities.
- Experience preparing objective quality evidence to support certification, compliance, verification, validation, and customer acceptance activities.
Why Join Us?
At L3Harris, you'll work on cutting-edge Defence programs that contribute to Australia's sovereign capability. We offer opportunities for professional growth, technical development, and career progression across a diverse range of complex engineering projects.
Applicants will be assessed and appointed at Senior Associate, Specialist and Senior levels based on their qualifications, experience, and demonstrated capability.
About L3Harris Australia
L3Harris has provided advanced technology solutions to government and commercial customers across Australia for more than 25 years. L3Harris has facilities in all major cities and employs over 500 people.
L3Harris in Eight Mile Plains is The Centre of Excellence for Electronic Warfare and is home to world-leading design, manufacture and integration expertise and the sustainment of high-reliability electronic warfare components. Our highly skilled workforce design and develop Australia’s sovereign defence capabilities such as the next-generation space, airborne and cyber capabilities for the Australian warfighter.
A few of our employee benefits are:
- An additional week of leave per annum plus the option to buy or sell up to 2 weeks additional annual leave.
- Salary continuance insurance (SCI pays 75% of your base salary and bonus for up to 2 years)
- Flexible working hours and patterns depending on location
- Discounted private health insurance
- Life & Total Permanent Disability Cover
- Novated Car Leasing
- Company supported professional development programs
- Retail Reward programs
- Onsite company car park
- Half day finish on Fridays
As an equal opportunities employer, L3Harris is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.