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Engineering Fellow

Harris Corporation
Palm Bay, FL Full Time
POSTED ON 5/24/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/24/2026
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: Engineering Fellow

Job Code: 37583

Job Location: Palm Bay, FL

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

Job Description:

L3Harris Corporation is seeking an Engineering Fellow to support open standards, next-gen embedded processors architectures within military avionics equipment, including mission multipurpose processors and critical avionics sub-systems. This role offers the opportunity to take on unique technical challenges, expand your skills and experience, and contribute to mission-critical systems solutions that keep our warfighters safe.

Essential Functions:
  • Act as a technical subject matter expert to develop and deliver advanced scalable, open standards processing technologies to government and industry standards.
  • Support and assist L3Harris with the integration of the developed software and services into hardware in support of demonstrations and field tests.
  • Applies an inter-disciplinary, collaborative approach to plan, design, develop, and verify a balanced lifecycle of system and system-of-systems solutions
  • Evaluates customer operational needs to define and coordinate system performance requirements, integrate technical parameters, and assure compatibility of all physical, functional and program interfaces
  • Drives enterprise solution offerings and future technology relevance to L3Harris customers
  • Leads and coordinates various (e.g., performance, cost, maintainability, obsolescence) analyses to optimize total system of systems and/or system architecture
  • Executes technical responsibilities within project cost and schedule constraints
  • Provides technical coordination between customer, industry (peers, suppliers), and internal engineering taskforce to handle technical issues
  • Prepares and presents "deep dive" technical information that addresses specific areas of interest
  • Leads a multi-discipline engineering group to ensure contractual requirements are met
  • Advocates customer's critical needs (current and future) to L3Harris internal stakeholders
  • Analyzes and develops recommendations to resolve potential contractual technical issues at product delivery
  • Establishes, implements, and documents the technology integration or migration strategies
  • Has the ability to multi-task and work across a variety of programs
  • Ensures adequate product definition and documentation, coordinate closely with execution teams to ensure proper implementation and adherence to functional and performance specifications
  • Provides technical direction for the development, integration, and testing of complex hardware/software systems in space, aerial, maritime, and terrestrial domains
  • Leads and conducts trade studies required to make both tactical and strategic technical decisions for programs, and to define L3Harris technology roadmaps
  • Leads or participates in technical interchange meetings (TIMs) to manage project execution and resolve enterprise issues
  • Provides mentoring, guidance and leadership to junior engineers
  • Ability to obtain a US Security Clearance

Qualifications:
  • Master's Degree or Doctorate degree from an accredited university in engineering, computer science, mathematics, or physics

Preferred Additional Skills:
  • 20 years of relevant experience creating and implementing system architectures and complex mission solutions
  • Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver cutting edge avionics processing solutions across heterogenous, dynamic environments at scale, including open standards and secure processing.
  • Demonstrated ability to partner with stakeholders and team leaders to identify needs and develop marketable system solutions with clear customer value
  • Effective communications skills, interpersonal skills and customer focus
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Leadership and experience collaborating in large, dynamic team environments
  • Previous experience developing products for DoD / government customers

#LI-CS2

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. 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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