Staff Test Engineer (AHT)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

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.

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.

Northrop Grumman Advanced Weapons has an opening for a Staff Test Engineer with an active clearance, to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Northridge, CA. This is an on-site position.

As an integral part of our multi-discipline engineering team in Advanced Weapons, you will be the System Integration, Test & Evaluation (SIT&E) IPT Lead (IPTL) for our SiAW Program. As IPTL, you will be responsible for providing technical and operational leadership to the cross-functional organization across every aspect of day-to-day execution.

The individual, as part of the program leadership team, will have responsibility to assist in guiding all program activities related to design, development, and testing by focusing on delivering solutions, removing roadblocks, simplifying large, complex problems, and anticipating Customer needs to free up engineers to focus their time and attention on the technical problems they are best equipped to solve.

This position requires a combination of project management, process optimization, technical proficiency and execution skills. This role will drive communications and operations for the SIT&E team to keep the team informed and motivated, while prioritizing and supporting a healthy culture.

The IPT Lead serves an integral role in cultivating the Customer relationship, actively managing team requirements, and fostering program and team culture. The position requires a high degree of collaboration skills with the ability to provide insight into the status of multiple efforts at various levels of leadership. This role will be a trusted advisor and thought partner to design leadership in crafting the strategy, vision and detailed plan to verify/qualify the system.

The individual will be instrumental in fostering a culture of collaboration and excellence through mentorship, coaching, and influence.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Ensures that the program is adhering to sound engineering processes in development and test for our customers and is compliant with company policy, procedures, and quality standards.

• Maintains cognizance over technical activities within program Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) and ensures horizontal integration of the best engineering practices across the company

• Collaborates with the customer to define the flight test program to include provision of information needed to obtain airworthiness clearance for the missile on the test aircraft, test plans, telemetry visualization requirements, and on-site support for ground checkout and test flight execution

• Provides oversight of Hardware/software engineering STE development .

• Develops the test benches to satisfy derived verification requirements.

• Manages the test benches to support system integration.

• Performs test variant and tactical missile verification