Manager, Software Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 22, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 19, 2026. L3Harris Technologies scores A on the Alion truth index.
Job Title: Software Engineering Manager in Global Waveforms
Job Code: 45749
Job Location: Rochester, NY (Onsite)
Job Schedule: 9/80 - Employees work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked - and have every other Friday off
Job Description:
The L3Harris Communications and Spectrum Dominance (CSD) segment Mission Critical Communications sector (MCC) is seeking a highly motivated, team oriented engineering manager to join a engineering organization that designs and implements cutting edge waveform solutions across various Commercial and DoD secure military products. This individual will work in a team environment to manage the development of highly complex waveforms that require the design, implementation, and integration of embedded General Purpose Processor (GPP), Cryptographic Sub System (CSS), Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and/or Digital Signal Processing (DSP) software solutions for radio and/or other communications products. This Engineering Manager will help develop creative solutions for our customer's problems. Challenges include short development schedules, resource constraints, and evolving requirements.
As a technical and team leader of the staff, the successful candidate will demonstrate initiative in the efficient development of complex systems throughout the product lifecycle. Additionally, this person will be comfortable working in geographically distributed development teams. The successful candidate will be expected to possess a thorough understanding of technical challenges including both the development methods as well as enforcing organizational behaviors to ensure quality. Experience with embedded C++/C, Agile Scrum, and DevOps-based software development is expected. Experience working in collaborative software design/development/test teams ranging in size from 3 to 30 engineers is desired.
Essential Functions:
The responsibilities and duties of this position include but are not limited to:
- Plan and manage project execution to align with scope, budget and schedule
- Management of the entire product development cycle including system/software requirements analysis, high level and detailed design, implementation, testing, integration, documentation, and government certification of embedded software designs.
- Detailed understanding and knowledge of best practices for design processes, software design, code development processes, release processes for simultaneous release of multiple devices.
- Functional management of a small group of developers for high assurance communications products in the tactical military radio domain.
- Manage staffing allocations against defined engineering resource demands.
- Effective interpersonal skills, ability to convey technical and business matters in a clear and logical manner.
- Ability to manage and make trade-offs between product recurring cost, budget, schedule and technical solutions.
- Support organizational development through recruiting, mentoring, career development, talent assessments and performance reviews of staff to ensure engineering skill sets and resource capacity to meet organization demands.
- Work collaboratively with product design, test, manufacturing, logistics engineering teams, product and program management and other groups, and external customers as needed to define and execute radio product development projects and deliver high-quality radio products.
- Ensure the conversion of customer requirements, including informal requirements, into total systems solutions that balance the technical, schedule and cost constraints of the program.
- Support collection and analysis of metrics related to project execution and software performance
- Support new business pursuits, proposals, and Basis of Estimates (BOE)
- Identify and implement engineering process improvements, promoting cross-team and cross-functional collaboration and re-use.
- Ability to obtain a US Security Clearance
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience in Software Engineering.
Preferred Additional Skills:
- Experience leading teams of 5+ engineers, managing their efforts including budget and scheduling of activities
- Experience with all phases of the software project development life cycle, including software analysis, design, development, testing (including software unit testing), and automation tools.
- Experience in agile software development methodologies using an iterative, time-boxed development process (SCRUM).
- Highly motivated, a self starter, and able to operate with little supervision in diverse environments.
- A successful track record in planning, executing, and tracking personal and team’s task assignments.
- Demonstrated ability and experience leading small product development engineering teams and mentoring other engineers.
- Mentoring and directing the activities of small groups of engineers.
- Managing activities in disparate geographic locations.
- Experience/knowledge of Capability Maturity Model (CMM)/Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) systems and software development processes or other defined SW development process.
- Certified ScrumMaster®
- Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)®
- Experience contributing to the development of software architectures.
- Experience with UML and OOA/OOD software development methodology.
- A successful track record in planning, executing, and tracking personal task assignments.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and debug software and related hardware issues.
- Radio communications or networking experience.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Experience with Agile Development and Scrum
- Experience with Earned Value Management
- Experience with Embedded Software Development
In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in New York State is $117,000 - $218,000. 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.