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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: Integration & Test Engineering Manager Job Code: 44291 Job Location: Yorba Linda, CA Schedule: 4/10: Employees work 10 hour days, 4 days a week Job Description: The Integration & Test Manager (Level 5) provides technical and organizational leadership for system integration, test engineering, and field test operations supporting advanced military GPS and Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) systems. This role directs a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for validating product performance, resiliency, and mission readiness across lab, production, and contested field environments. This leader ensures end‑to‑end integration maturity, drives execution of complex test campaigns, and maintains alignment with military performance standards and mission requirements. The manager interfaces directly with systems engineering, hardware, software, firmware, production, and program management teams while coordinating externally with government partners, test ranges, and mission stakeholders. Navigation Solutions products support warfighters in denied or degraded environments. This role plays a critical part in ensuring receivers, simulators, and PNT subsystems maintain reliability and mission effectiveness under adversarial conditions such as jamming, spoofing, and interference. Essential Functions: • Lead and develop a team of integration engineers, test engineers, and field engineers responsible for lab and field validation activities. • Oversee development, integration, and sustainment of Special Test Equipment (STE) supporting FQT, ATP, FAT, EMI, environmental, and manufacturing test workflows. • Translate CONOPS into clear, testable system requirements and integration directives that guide design, implementation, and verification activities. • Direct system-level integration efforts, including test readiness reviews, configuration control, deployment planning, and execution oversight. • Manage development and improvement of automated test frameworks, including scripting, equipment drivers, debug tools, data handling, and reporting infrastructure. • Ensure effective cross-functional collaboration with engineering, quality, and production leadership for seamless test operations and rapid issue resolution. • Oversee configuration and management of complex production lab environments, including automation infrastructure, lab networks, power systems, and integrated test setups. • Provide leadership for planning, coordinating, and executing live-sky and range-based field test events in contested, degraded, and threat-representative environments. • Approve detailed field test plans, instrumentation configurations, and validation methods ensuring compliance with military requirements. • Ensure proper operation and configuration of RF/GPS/PNT instrumentation and portable field equipment used during test missions. • Guide review, interpretation, and communication of large datasets from field events; ensure accurate performance characterization and anomaly identification. • Serve as primary point of contact with external test ranges, government agencies, customers, and mission partners for field test coordination and reporting. • Maintain accountability for test asset control, calibration, configuration verification, and readiness of field test kits and specialized equipment. • Deliver high-quality technical reports, briefings, and presentations to internal leadership and external stakeholders, including customer representatives. • Drive root-cause analysis and corrective action activities across RF hardware, embedded software, digital interfaces, and environmental interactions. • Lead refinement of threat models, adversarial test profiles, and emerging operational scenarios to align with changing mission needs. • Ensure team compliance with system security practices. • Travel up to 10%. Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with 9+ years of relevant experience; OR graduate degree with 7+ years; OR 15+ years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree. • Active U.S. Secret Clearance. Preferred Additional Skills: • Direct leadership experience managing integration and test engineering teams. • Deep understanding of RF fundamentals, interference effects, GPS/PNT signal characteristics, jamming/spoofing mechanisms, and field test operations. • Extensive experience using IBM DOORS for requirements development, decomposition, traceability, and verification management. • Strong background in Python scripting, automation development, and hardware/software debugging. • Proven ability to lead complex system integration efforts and improve test automation processes. • Demonstrated experience in leading large-scale field test campaigns including planning, logistics, safety, and execution oversight. • Strong analytical skills with ability to diagnose cross-domain issues spanning RF hardware, embedded software, digital interfaces, and environmental stressors. • Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills, including experience briefing leadership and customers. • Demonstrated experience serving as a Control Account Manager (CAM) with full responsibility for cost, schedule, and technical performance of assigned control accounts. • Understanding of Earned Value Management System (EVMS) principles, including development and maintenance of cost accounts, basis of estimates (BOEs), work authorization documents, budgets, schedules, and performance metrics. • Flexible work schedule but 4/10 is preferred In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in California is $122,000 - $227,000 . This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements. #LI-KA1 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. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens. 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. 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Job Title: Integration & Test Engineering Manager
Job Code: 44291
Job Location: Yorba Linda, CA
Schedule: 4/10: Employees work 10 hour days, 4 days a week
Lead and develop a team of integration engineers, test engineers, and field engineers responsible for lab and field validation activities.
Oversee development, integration, and sustainment of Special Test Equipment (STE) supporting FQT, ATP, FAT, EMI, environmental, and manufacturing test workflows.
Translate CONOPS into clear, testable system requirements and integration directives that guide design, implementation, and verification activities.
Direct system-level integration efforts, including test readiness reviews, configuration control, deployment planning, and execution oversight.
Manage development and improvement of automated test frameworks, including scripting, equipment drivers, debug tools, data handling, and reporting infrastructure.
Ensure effective cross-functional collaboration with engineering, quality, and production leadership for seamless test operations and rapid issue resolution.
Oversee configuration and management of complex production lab environments, including automation infrastructure, lab networks, power systems, and integrated test setups.
Provide leadership for planning, coordinating, and executing live-sky and range-based field test events in contested, degraded, and threat-representative environments.
Approve detailed field test plans, instrumentation configurations, and validation methods ensuring compliance with military requirements.
Ensure proper operation and configuration of RF/GPS/PNT instrumentation and portable field equipment used during test missions.
Guide review, interpretation, and communication of large datasets from field events; ensure accurate performance characterization and anomaly identification.
Serve as primary point of contact with external test ranges, government agencies, customers, and mission partners for field test coordination and reporting.
Maintain accountability for test asset control, calibration, configuration verification, and readiness of field test kits and specialized equipment.
Deliver high-quality technical reports, briefings, and presentations to internal leadership and external stakeholders, including customer representatives.
Drive root-cause analysis and corrective action activities across RF hardware, embedded software, digital interfaces, and environmental interactions.
Lead refinement of threat models, adversarial test profiles, and emerging operational scenarios to align with changing mission needs.
Ensure team compliance with system security practices.
Travel up to 10%.
Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with 9+ years of relevant experience; OR graduate degree with 7+ years; OR 15+ years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.

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Flexible work schedule but 4/10 is preferred

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