Engineering Manager - Military GPS & Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT)
L3Harris · Yorba Linda, CA
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Base pay
- $128k–$237k
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Experience asked
- 9+ years
- Industry
- Aerospace & defense
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management manufacturing role at L3Harris (aerospace & defense) in Yorba Linda, CA.
- They ask for
- 9+ years · degree required (or equivalent experience)
- Tools it names
- Automation
- Base pay
- $128k–$237k
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Manufacturing Engineer roles in California: typical posted base $111k–$173k. This one lists $128k–$237k.
Median of the low and high ends of 165 live postings that list pay, out of 436 manufacturing engineer openings in California, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 435 other live manufacturing postings in California.
- Base pay
- About 36% above similar roles
- Experience asked
- More than usual (9+ vs 5+)
Typical $109k–$159k, from 143 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Tooling 50%
- New product launch 44%
- Root cause 37%
- ✓ Automation 35%
- Machining 27%
- CATIA / NX 26%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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This plant: L3Harris in Yorba Linda
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- Integration & Test Engineering Manager · Manufacturing · Manager
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Full description from L3HarrisAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
responsibilities
with emphasis on system
requirements
development, decomposition, allocation, and verification planning, along with integration and test execution. This position is part of the Systems Engineering Organization within Navigation Solutions (NS) at L3Harris in Yorba Linda, CA. The role requires experience in translating customer and stakeholder needs into well‑defined system-level requirements, managing traceability (e.g., in DOORS), defining interfaces and architecture, and supporting system integration and verification activities. The engineer will participate in
requirements
analysis, architecture development, integration planning, test procedure development, data analysis, and documentation of verification results. Navigation Solutions products deliver advanced military GPS and other Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) capabilities for weapons, ground, airborne, maritime, and space environments.
Essential Functions
- ◆Contributes to publishing change notices to system specification and update of
requirements
databases, architectural models, interface definitions, and trace system and Element level requirements.
- ✓Document analysis results in reports and briefings for critique and review by internal and external stakeholders.
- ✓Create and present briefings within the team and external stakeholders.
- ✓Duties will include leading system engineering in the development of requirements, model, and tracking status of verification.
- ✓Perform detailed tracking of changes to system
requirements
and verification
- ✓Perform hands-on system integration, test deployment, and execution roles.
- ✓Proficient in the operation and understanding of wireless/RF test equipment, such as signal analyzers, signal generators, and spectrum analyzers.
- ✓Develop test automation, including equipment drivers, debug tools, automation scripts, database interfaces, and reporting tools.
- ✓Must be eligible to able to obtain a US security clearance
Qualifications
- ✓Position requires a Bachelor’s degree in science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) or related discipline with minimum 9 years or a Graduate degree with a minimum of 7 years prior relevant experience; or in lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
requirements
development and allocation, and interface definition with system-modelling tools.
- ✓Must be able to support an in-person / closed-area work environment
- ✓Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work both independently and as part of a team with limited direction.
- ✓Possess strong verbal and written communications skills necessary to work effectively in a small technical team environment, and to accurately represent requirement/test perspectives to system architects, software designers, other test and test support personnel, and the Government customer.
- ✓An understanding of the Systems Engineering Lifecycle.
- ✓V&V planning and execution experience.
- ✓Regularly contributes to overall system integration and automation process improvement.
- ✓Experience with hardware implementation or embedded software implementation.
- ✓Flexible work schedule but 4/10 is preferred
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 additio
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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: Systems Engineering Manager
Job Location: Yorba Linda, CA
Job Schedule: 4 / 10: Employees work 10 hour days, 4 days a week
Job Description
Perform Systems Engineering
Preferred Additional Skills
- +Strong prior experience with the use of DOORS.
- +Applicants must demonstrate a strong hardware and software technical background in architecture development, functional decomposition,