SEIT Systems Engineer – level 3 or 4

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: SCI

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.

Expand your horizons, advance your career, and contribute to a secure future for generations. Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector invites you to bring your pioneering spirit to our collaborative teams.

This experienced SEIT Systems Engineer – Level 3 or 4 role will be located in either our Morrisville, NC, Fairfax, VA or Linthicum, MD sites.

This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work.   This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.

The successful candidate will demonstrate broad systems and software engineering lifecycle knowledge.  The candidate must be adaptable to course corrections and ever-evolving plan changes, have a solution-based mindset, and be able to advise and present managing scope and dependencies to both the technical and leadership teams.  These teams are geographically dispersed, and the candidate should have the ability to operate as a team lead in a fast-paced software testing environment.   The candidate is expected to operate independently with little oversight in a dynamic environment and to be highly self-motivated. The individual is expected to handle diverse assignments with efficiency, finding unique solutions, and working in a very collaborative and fast-paced environment that continues to grow.

This position is contingent upon clearance verification and transfer to the NG sponsored program as well as continued ability to maintain required clearance level. 

Basic Qualifications:

This requisition may be filled at either a level 3 (Principal) or a level 4 (Senior Principal), depending on the candidate’s experience as laid out in the basic qualifications detailed below as well as the interview assessment.

• Requires an active Top-Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance [TS/SCI] at time of application

• Level 3: (Principal level)

  • Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field with 5 years of professional experience (excluding internships, research projects, etc.)

  • Master’s degree in a STEM field with 3 years of professional experience (excluding internships, research projects, etc.)

  • PhD in a STEM field with 1 year of professional experience) (excluding internships, research projects, etc.)

• Level 4: (Sr Principal level)

  • Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field with 8 years of professional experience (excluding internships, research projects, etc.)

  • Master’s degree in a STEM field with 6 years of professional experience (excluding internships, research projects, etc.)

  • PhD in a STEM field with 4 years of professional experience) (excluding internships, research projects, etc.)

• Experience with software Requirement Verification & Validation (V&V), to include manual and automated test methodologies

• Experience with Interface Control Documents (ICDs) and how they're utilized in the testing process

• Experience with requirements, the decomposition process, and how verification methods are applied

• Experience with MBSE (Cameo)

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

 Preferred Qualifications:      

• Favorably adjudicated CI polygraph

• Experience with Python, Behave, and MATLAB

• Experience working within the Linux environment

• Familiarity with Agile processes

• Familiarity with the use of Confluence, Jira, and Bitbucket

• Familiarity wit