Sr. Staff Mission Verification & Validation Lead Engineer (SS1018)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Polygraph

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.

Today’s dynamic global security threats require solutions both big and small – solutions living within the Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center (NGMC). Boasting state-of-the-art design capabilities, multiple processing nodes, electrical testing, environmental and QCI screening, and failure analysis, the NGMC is a leader in designing, fabricating, packaging and delivering discriminating microelectronics to the military, aerospace, and commercial markets.  For more than 70 years, we have been offering a wide range of trusted foundry and semiconductor services that deliver high performing and reliable microelectronics. Our wide breadth of technologies and capabilities allows us to provide our customers with unique “More than Moore” solutions.

Microelectronics | Northrop Grumman

One of our most challenging new fields is Microelectronics Design and Applications (MDA), which combines the unique properties of superconductivity and quantum mechanics to develop radical new energy-efficient computing systems. The Systems Engineering Integration & Test (SEIT) department is seeking a Sr. Staff Mission Verification & Validation Lead Engineer to join our team and develop these technologies into high-performance computing systems that solve an assortment of unique mission needs. You’ll work in a fast-paced team environment alongside physicists, design engineers, and superconducting foundry engineers to make these technologies a reality. 

 

What You'll Get To Do: 

As a Mission Verification & Validation Lead Engineer, you will have an opportunity to be a part of a technology development organization that is collaborative, open, transparent, team-oriented, and flexible, where continuous learning is encouraged, all within a culture of design. 

Role and Responsibilities: 

The Mission Verification & Validation Engineer will be responsible working with SMEs from across multiple related programs to develop verification and validation strategies at appropriate levels that suit each program while building up to a unified system-of-systems verification and validation strategy. Other responsibilities will include: 

• Work with customers and stakeholders to capture criteria for system-of-systems verification and validation plans

• Develop and implement verification and validation plans/procedures and coordinate plans and activities with the overall Program Test Plan 

• Coordinate with other program personnel to develop the system transition and logistics/support plans 

• Candidates will not only have significant Systems Engineering and management experience, but also possess technical breadth and experience in multiple mission areas, program phases, and systems engineering processes 

• Develop and improve qualification of system and demonstrator test procedures 

• Develop test and verification strategies that help minimize program cost and techni