Principal/Sr Principal Engineer - Human Factors
Northrop GrummanAbout the role
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 Space Systems (NGSP) sector is seeking a Human Factors Engineer/User Researcher to support the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Fire Control system engineering activities in Colorado Springs, Colorado. No relocation assistance is available.
The selected candidate will become part of the Ground Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Program in support of the GMD Weapon System (GWS) for the Missile Defense Agency. GMD employs integrated communications networks, fire control systems, globally deployed sensors and Ground-Based Interceptors that are capable of detecting, tracking, and destroying ballistic missile threats. The open position is in support of the design and development of the GMD Fire Control (GFC) product within the GWS program.
Key Responsibilities:
Participate fully in the product development process by embedding with Agile product teams, the ideal candidate will be able to synthesize user feedback and usability testing data into product roadmap tasks and deliverables.
Collaborate with military and non-military users, systems engineers, software developers, Missile Defense Agency (MDA) customer representatives, and UI/UX designers to ensure evolving designs are user-centered and ultimately compatible with expected GFC military end-users.
Generate and iteratively refine journey maps, user flows, task analyses, and other research artifacts to capture intended user-system interactions at both the macro and micro levels. These artifacts will be used to generate targeted UX/UI designs and inform the UI product team Agile backlog.
Effectively communicate and coordinate journey maps and user flows with team members across numerous scrum teams to drive human-centered design and development activities.
Elicit and catalog feedback from customer and user community on evolving design concepts and completed software using both formative and summative approaches to help guide design and development.
Conduct usability testing of design concept prototypes and working software and synthesize and report results. This data will drive design iteration and product backlog.
Assess and translate evolving user needs to facilitate engineering requirement and design concept definitions.
Support assessment in accordance with MIL-STD-1472G/H design guidelines.
Basic Qualifications:
Principal Human Factors Engineer: Bachelor's degree and 5 years of related experience, a Master’s degree and 3 years of related experience, or a PhD and 1 years of related experience.
Sr. Principal Human Factors Engineer: Bachelor's degree and 8 years of related experience or a Master’s and 6 years of related experience, or a PhD and 4 years of related experience
Applicants must possess a current, active in-scope DoD-issued Secret security clearance at the time of application, which is required to start
Fundamental understanding of HFE principles as applied to software-centric system development.
Experience developing and administering qualitative and quantitative user assessments methods.
Experience assessing
Demonstrated experience collecting and analyzing end-user feedback/data (both formative and summative) to drive a product backlog.
Demonstrated experience developing journey maps, user flows, task analysis, or equivalent.
Demonstrated experience with User Interface (UI) design, e.g. developing w
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