Staff Engineer - Systems FW Architect

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Polygraph

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Today’s dynamic global security threats require solutions both big and small – solutions living within the Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center (NGMC). Boasting state-of-the-art design capabilities, multiple processing nodes, electrical testing, environmental and QCI screening, and failure analysis, the NGMC is a leader in designing, fabricating, packaging, and delivering discriminating microelectronics to the military, aerospace, and commercial markets.  For more than 70 years, we have been offering a wide range of trusted foundry and semiconductor services that deliver high performing and reliable microelectronics. Our wide breadth of technologies and capabilities allows us to provide our customers with unique “More than Moore” solutions. Microelectronics | Northrop Grumman

One of our most challenging new fields is Microelectronics Design and Applications (MDA), which combines the unique properties of superconductivity and quantum mechanics to develop radical new energy-efficient computing systems. MDA is seeking a Staff Engineer Systems FW Architect with demonstrated ability to lead systems engineers in the development of new technologies to support our innovative MDA team in support of emerging supercomputing technologies.

What You’ll Get to Do:

• Define systems and demonstrations that combine technologies created by other MDA efforts into products that solve critical customer mission needs.

• Drive the development and integration plan leading to the successful demonstration of cutting-edge capabilities.

• Develop system level roadmaps capturing the advancement of MDA and other relevant technologies.

• Work with the customer, partner, and supplier communities to develop the system conceptual systems leading to major program milestones / reviews (e.g., SRR, SFR, SDR, PDR, CDR).

• Capture customer needs translating them into System-Level requirements and Technical Performance Measures (TPMs).

• Support functional analysis and systems trade studies for technical solutions with respect to concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, and maintenance.

• Developing and implementing test plans to verify that each embedded software function performs as intended

• Analyzing system requirements and developing an implementation plan complete with functional definitions and reasoned allocation of those functions between hardware and software components

• Providing systems test and integration support in the implementation of new systems or new baseline deployments

• Support system technical performance measurement definition and tracking.

• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure system/software designs align with system requirements.

• Assist with the generation of well-defined and executable system, subsystem, and software requirements documents, interface documents, and test and verification documents.

This position will serve on-site in Linthicum / Annapolis Junction, MD or Beavercreek, OH.

Basic Qualifications for Staff Engineer Systems FW Architect:

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) with 12 years of related experience, or 10 years with a MS Degree, or 8 years with a PhD.
• Experience with software programming languages including C, C++, and Python.
• Experience developing in a Linux and/or Windows environment.
• Experience with interaction between hardware and software for different types of standard hardware blocks, CPU and accelerators.
• Experience with embedded systems debugging and system analysis tools (e.g. JTAG emulators, remote GDB servers, USB or benchtop logic