Lead, Systems Engineer at L3Harris
Salt Lake City, UT
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Aug 5, 2026
Salt Lake City, UT
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A lead-level Reliability, Maintainability & Safety (RAMS) engineering role at a defense electronics firm in Salt Lake City. The position involves conducting FMECA, FTA, reliability predictions, and safety analyses on hardware and software systems for military and government programs, while mentoring junior engineers and producing technical documentation to military and commercial standards. Suits an experienced RAMS practitioner with a background in defense systems engineering.
Senior level · 9+ years · Salt Lake City, UT · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
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Why we read it this way (9)
This role is Reliability, Maintainability & Safety (RAMS) engineering — a systems/reliability engineering discipline that does not map cleanly to any single SOC code in the computer/mathematical occupations list. 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is used as the closest available code; 15-1211 (Computer Systems Analysts) is noted as a secondary option, though neither is a precise fit for a defense RAMS engineer.
The title 'Lead' is used in the sense of a senior subject-matter expert and mentor, not a people-manager title; the role is classified as Senior accordingly.
The degree requirement is Bachelor's minimum, but the JD also accepts 13 years of experience in lieu of any degree. Degree requirement is set to Bachelors because that is the stated minimum when a degree is held; candidates without a degree may still qualify.
The 9-year experience minimum applies to the Bachelor's path; 7 years applies with a graduate degree, and 13 years applies with no degree. The lowest gated figure (7 years) could be argued, but 9 years is used as the primary Bachelor's-path minimum.
MIL-HDBK-217F is listed as a required standard alongside Telcordia SR-332 and 217Plus as named alternatives within the same requirement; all three are captured accordingly.
All software tools (Teamcenter, SAP, MS Office, SharePoint, Relyence, Catia Cameo, Ansys Sherlock) and methodologies (FRACAS, GEIA-STD-0007, Human Factors Engineering) appear only under 'Preferred Additional Skills' and are marked as preferred.
A Secret clearance is required ('ability to obtain' is the stated gate); TS/SCI is not mentioned.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Fault Tree Analysis, Reliability Modeling.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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