Principal / Senior Principal Systems Engineer
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.We at Northrop Grumman Missions Systems in Woodland Hills, CA are seeking a skilled Systems Engineer with a strong understanding of requirements development, test case development, and verification and validation of those requirements. The ideal candidate should be proficient with requirements technical baseline management via IBM Rational DOORS, and act as the point of contact to the Chief Engineer and customer.
Key Responsibilities:
Work with a broad customer base to identify unique requirements, flow the requirements into design documentation, and work with a diverse team to build and test those requirements.
Present to customers on the capabilities of current products, performance analyses, design information, and requirements verification methods.
Generate, review, and manage multiple requirements sets that cover all aspects of both performance and nonperformance including mechanical interfaces, electrical interfaces, data requirements, environmental requirements, and reliability.
Awareness and responsiveness to contract milestones and deliverables.
Lead an Agile team to ensure the designs are sufficient to meet the system requirements.
Work with various Agile teams to ensure all requirements are verified through inspection, analysis, demonstration, or test often by providing test and data reduction scripts.
Provide test directions to ensure production tests and troubleshooting tests are executed correctly and resulting data conforms to requirements.
This position may be filled as a Principal Systems Engineer or Senior Principal Systems Engineer
Basic Qualifications - Principal Systems Engineer:
Bachelor's of Science degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 5+ years of engineering experience; Master's Science degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 3+ years of engineering experience; PhD degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 1+ years of engineering experience
Experience with IBM Rational DOORS
Demonstrated success with:
Technical baseline management
Writing and updating DOORS requirements
Decomposing and deriving requirements based on customer specifications
Experience in System Engineering activities such as:
Software requirements development
Requirements development
Test Case development
Verification and Validation, i.e. experience running tests and documenting results
Excellent written and oral communication skills including:
Demonstrated experience presenting to internal and external stakeholders
Demonstrated experience communicating technical information, e.g. requirements updates, test plans, integration test plans, etc.
Demonstrated Experience supporting test investigations and debugging efforts
Collaborating with cross-functional teams
U.S. Citizenship is required
Active/Current U.S. Government Secret clearance required at the time of application
Ability to work onsite full-time at Woodland Hills, CA
Basic Qualifications - Senior Principal Systems Engineer:
Bachelor's of Science degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 8+ years of engineering experience; Master's Science degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 6+ years of engineering experience; PhD degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 4+ years of engineering experience
Experience with IBM Rational DOORS
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