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L3Harris Specialist, Mechanical Engineer (TS Clearance Required) in Palm Bay, Florida

Job Title: Specialist, Mechanical Engineer (Robotics and Controls)

Job Code: 10250

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:

During its 120-year history, L3Harris has transformed communications and information technology. L3Harris is a proven leader in tactical communications, geospatial systems and services, air traffic management, environmental solutions, avionics and electronic warfare, and space and intelligence. From ocean to orbit and everywhere in between, we provide mission-critical solutions to connect, inform and protect the world.

On the L3Harris team, your job is to secure the world. We don't work here just for the advanced technology and equipment: we work here because we know what - and who - we're protecting! From families to the intelligence community, and from our climate to our men and women in uniform - we're making the world a safer place!

Essential Functions:We are looking for a driven mechatronic engineer to design, implement and test motion control and/or robotic integration solutions in a high precision, multi-degree of freedom environment. Work performed would be in close coordination with mechanical design, electrical, and software teams to develop motor, control, manipulation, and sensing solutions. Candidate's efforts will increase the level of automation in existing processes while developing new processes and hardware from the ground up.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant robotics and controls experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related robotics and controls experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related robotics and controls experience.

  • Active TS clearance required.

  • Minimum 2 years' experience in mathematics of rotations (rotation matrices, quaternions, Euler angles, etc.) and Matlab.

  • Minimum 3-5 years of experience with motor controls.

  • Minimum 2 years of experience developing autonomy and control logic (e.g., state machines).

    Preferred Additional Skills:

  • Understanding of Homogeneous Transformations (Coordinate Frame Transformations).

  • Experience with serial linkages.

  • Simulink experience.

  • LabView experience.

  • Familiarity with sensing and/or computer vision methodologies.

  • System Modeling / System Identification.

  • Experience with robotic manipulation.

L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Affirmative Action/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.

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