Sr Manager, Digital Design and Signal Processing (Networking and Crypto)

As Senior Manager of the Networking and Cryptographic team within L3Harris Communication Systems-West's Digital Design and Signal Processing organization, you manage a large team of individual contributor engineers and sub-managers supporting networking and cryptographic technologies. You guide technical direction, oversee people leadership, and drive the life-cycle execution of complex development efforts from concept through System Integration and Test (SIT), while coordinating staffing, forecasting, and talent management across the department.

What you'll do

• Coordinate and manage Networking and Cryptographic projects within the Digital Design and Signal Processing organization, aligning resources to meet organizational commitments and priorities
• Maintain project awareness and adapt to changing priorities, working within the organization to dynamically adjust as needed
• Sit in on design reviews to ensure technical synergy, competence, efficiency, and completeness
• Perform staffing assignments, forecasting, and hiring decisions for the department
• Provide employee career development, mentoring, training, and performance reviews
• Support bid and proposal efforts on behalf of the Digital Design and Signal Processing organization
• Serve as the initial point of contact for other departments needing support from the Networking and Cryptographic team
• Support engineering processes, guidelines, and process improvement initiatives
• Partner with other functional engineering organizations to ensure technical execution aligns with program objectives, mission needs, schedule, budget, and contractual requirements
• Provide technical leadership across the full development and test cycle, including concept development, architecture, requirements analysis, design synthesis, integration, verification, validation, and qualification
• Support the development of system architectures and technical roadmaps for Electronic Warfare and Electronic Attack systems
• Oversee requirements decomposition, allocation, traceability, and verification planning across FPGA and HDL solutions
• Ensure development of high-quality technical artifacts including specifications, interface control documents, test plans, procedures, verification cross-reference matrices, and other design artifacts
• Support internal and external technical reviews, customer briefings, milestone assessments, and program status reviews as the responsible systems engineering leader
• Drive technical risk and opportunity identification, mitigation planning, and issue resolution across development and production efforts
• Support cross-functional engineering execution among systems, electrical, software, mechanical, test, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain teams
• Support proposal strategy, basis of estimate development, technical volume creation, technical interchange meetings, and customer demonstrations for new business pursuits
• Establish and enforce disciplined software and HDL engineering processes, tools, and metrics to ensure technical quality, configuration control, and compliance with company and customer standards
• Provide leadership in staffing, mentoring, succession planning, and building a high-performing engineering organization capable of supporting multiple concurrent programs

What you bring

• A Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline with a minimum of 12 years of related experience, or a Graduate Degree with a minimum of 10 years of related experience
• An active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret clearance and access additional classified programs as required

Nice to have

• A minimum of 3 years of technical leadership, functional leadership, or engineering management experience leading teams on complex defense or aerospace programs
• A minimum of 3 years of experience developing Networking, Cryptographic, Waveform, or DSP related systems
• Experience with risk management, earned value or schedule-driven technical execution, and coordination across internal teams
• A strong understanding of secure development environments, classified program execution, and the operational discipline required for sensitive technologies
• Experience supporting captures, RFIs, RFPs, and new business pursuits, including technical writing, solution shaping, and formal presentations to internal and external stakeholders
• Effective communication and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for executive leadership, customers, and engineering teams
• Working knowledge of tools such as DOORS or equivalent requirements tools, Microsoft Office applications, MS Project, and model-based or document-based systems engineering environments
• Thorough development experience with coding languages such as VHDL, C, C++, and Matlab, and experience developing complex multi-FPGA systems
• Experience leading or supporting certification of High Assurance Cryptographic devices

What we offer

• Location in Salt Lake City, UT
• A 9x80 work schedule

About L3Harris

L3Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech, delivering end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea, and cyber domains in the interest of national security. The company is committed to recruiting and developing high-performing talent in an inclusive, engaging environment that empowers employees and promotes work-life success.