Senior Specialist, Software Engineering

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Software Engineering

Job Code: 46804

Job Location: Palm Bay, FL or Fort Wayne, IN

Job Schedule: 9/80

Job Description:

L3Harris is seeking a senior software engineer to lead a ground station software component. Lead the development of mission-critical software for satellite ground systems, supporting command and control, telemetry processing, mission planning, automation, simulation, and operator tools. This senior engineering role combines hands-on software design, integration, testing, and performance optimization across secure, reliable, and maintainable ground station capabilities. You will collaborate across the full software lifecycle to deliver solutions that directly support space missions and operational users.

This position is located in Palm Bay, FL: https://careers.l3harris.com/en/florida or

This position is located in Fort Wayne, IN: https://careers.l3harris.com/en/Fort-Wayne

Essential Functions:

• Design and implement software for satellite ground systems, including command and control, telemetry and data processing, mission planning, automation, simulation, and operator-facing tools.
• Design, deploy, and sustain secure, scalable software services in Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environments, using infrastructure automation, containerized applications, and cloud-native monitoring practices.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity in coding, integration, test generation, debugging, documentation, and code review.
• Validate all AI-generated output for correctness, security, maintainability, and mission suitability before integration.
• Develop secure, reliable, and maintainable software using modern engineering and DevSecOps practices.
• Integrate software with simulators, hardware interfaces, external services, databases, and mission support systems.
• Write automated unit, integration, and system tests, including negative and failure-mode scenarios.
• Support system architecture, interface definition, troubleshooting, integration issue resolution, and performance tuning.
• Analyze and decompose requirements for program reviews such as Preliminary and Critical Design Reviews.
• Travel no more than 10%

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience
• Secret security clearance
• Space to Ground experience in one of these areas: Mission Planning and Scheduling (MPS), Tracking, Telemetry and Commanding (TT&C), Flight Dynamics/Spacecraft Navigation (FDS/SCN), Mission Data Processing (MDP)
• Experience developing in Python
• Experience working across requirements, implementation, integration, verification, and sustainment.
• Experience building or sustaining software in Linux and containerized development environments.
• Experience with APIs, distributed systems, messaging or data flows, simulator or hardware integration, and automated test.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• CompTIA Security+
• AWS Certified Developer