Sentinel Principal User Experience - Human Factors Engineer 4552-2

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.

Northrop Grumman's Defense Systems is seeking a User Experience Engineer to support Human Factors engineering efforts for development of SW User Interfaces as part of the Specialty Engineering Human Systems Integration (HSI) team.  This position will be a part of the Sentinel Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program (Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) replacement) development contract. This role can be in Huntsville, Alabama or Roy, Utah and may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

Northrop Grumman supports the Air Force’s sustainment, development, production and deployment of hardware and system modifications for ICBM Ground and Airborne Launch Control Systems, Launch Facilities and associated infrastructure.

The selected candidate will be a member of the Human Factors (HF) specialization for software user interfaces (UI) design efforts for the HSI team. They will interact/communicate with the element and product level teams in the technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, and supportability/effectiveness analyses for total systems.  Human Factors analyses are performed at all levels of total system product to include: concept, design, and test. The HFE ensures requirements allocation and interface definition studies translate to customer requirements for hardware and software HSI specification and could require functional analysis, timeline analysis, and detail trade studies.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience with a Bachelors degree in Systems Engineering, human factors, user experience, industrial design, or HCI-related field from an accredited university, 3 years with a Masters or 1 year with a PhD.
• Systems Engineering experience with a particular experience in requirements verification
• Demonstrated experience utilizing UI/UX design principles
• Ability to build software prototypes for usability testing of candidate designs
• Active Secret clearance with an investigation date in the last 6 years; Must have the ability to obtain special program access
• Experience in fast-paced work environment and ability to work in a team environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to present to segment, program and customer community
• Ability to solve problems, analyze test results, drive tasks to completion

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with visual design of computer user interfaces
• Degree in Psychology or similar social sciences
• Experience with Human Factors in a defense contracting environment (familiarity with Mil-Std-1472G and ANSI/HFES 100-2007), DoD UI/UX Design Experience
• Experience with Axure wire-framing/prototyping software
• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
• Experience on an Agile Software Development Team
• Demonstrated experience with prototyping/wire-framing tools

Position Benefits:

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage

• 401k

• Educational Assistance

• Life Insurance

• Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions

• Paid Time Off

• Health & Wellness Resources

• Employee Discounts

This positions standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

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Salary Range: $95,300.00 - $142,900.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such