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Job Title: Sr Scientist, Systems Engineering (Space Vehicle Fault Management)

Job Code: 19625

Job Location: Remote or Palm Bay, FL or Rochester, NY or Ft. Wayne, IN or Colorado Springs, CO or San Diego, CA

Job Description:

L3Harris' Space and Airborne Systems seeks a Space Vehicle (SV) Fault Management Engineer to join our growing team. The pers individual on in this position will be serve as an SV Fault management Engineer Lead across the Space Sector at L3Harris, responsible for reviewing supplier fault management designs and/or designing, developing, and implementing fault detection, isolation, and recovery strategies at the SV level. This includes all phases of the program lifecycle: Capture and Proposal, Program Execution and Operations. The SV Fault Management Engineer will be responsible for leading technical teams of spacecraft bus, mission payload, communication payload and systems engineers through the product life cycle activities ranging from initial requirements and architectures, design and development, integration and test and operations. The role will include direct support to Programs and Customers to ensure execution activities of all functional disciplines for existing portfolio programs and new pursuits.

 

Essential Functions: 

• Identifying potential failure modes and developing fault trees to understand the impact of system failures on spacecraft operations
• Standardize SV level Fault Management engineering activities for all phases of the program life cycle
• Standardizing SV level fault management requirements derivation and flow down
• Develop guidelines for SV level fault management trade studies, analyses and integration activities tailorable for each mission area and program
• Review and/or develop program SV level fault management engineering work products for consistency
• Support major technical reviews and failure investigations as a fault management subject matter expert
• Mentor and train SV level fault management engineers
• Share lessons learned, best practices, ongoing concerns/issues, and potential opportunities across similar programs
• Ensure engineering excellence on executing programs through consistent and repeatable SV level fault management engineering integration activities across the Sector
• 25% travel as required

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 15 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 19 years of prior related experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or adjacent field.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance.
• High level of prior experience in following areas:
  • On-orbit operations of space vehicles
  • Space vehicle fault management architectures and designs
  • SV level fault analysis methodologies including reliability models and FMEA/FMECAs
  • Integrating fault detection algorithms and diagnostic capabilities into space vehicle avionics and software systems to enable real-time monitoring and response to anomalies
  • Developing procedures and algorithms for autonomous or operator-assisted responses to system faults, including reconfiguration, redundancy management, and safe mode operations
  • Planning and executing simulations and tests to validate fault management strategies and ensure the robustness of the spacecraft’s response to anomalous conditions

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