Staff Engineer Systems – System Integration Engineer (25-285)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance 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 Space Systems—Launch and Missile Defense Systems offers an exciting career opportunity for a Staff Engineer Systems – System Integration Engineer (25-285) to join our team of qualified and diverse individuals. This position, based at Schriever Space Force Base in Colorado Springs, CO, plays a vital role in supporting the U.S. President, Secretary of Defense, and combatant commanders at strategic, regional, and operational levels.

Relocation assistance is not available for this position, and this role is on-site with no remote options.

Position Overview:

The Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program serves as the central element of the Missile Defense System. It is a vital operational system that allows the U.S. president, the secretary of defense, and combatant commanders at strategic, regional, and operational levels to systematically plan ballistic missile defense operations, monitor the progress of the battle, and dynamically manage designated networked sensors and weapon systems to achieve global and regional mission objectives. C2BMC supports a layered missile defense capability that provides an optimized response to threats of all ranges during every phase of flight. It functions as a force multiplier, networking, integrating, and synchronizing autonomous sensor and weapon systems and operations both globally and regionally to improve performance. Additionally, C2BMC is a vital part of all system ground and flight tests, which verify and evaluate the current and future capabilities of the missile defense system.

Essential Functions:

• Will be responsible for leading a team of system integrators through planning, scheduling, and conducting system integration activities in both laboratory and operational environments
• Support program iteration planning and oversee resource allocation across all projects, tasks, and pop-ups
• Oversee staffing levels using the Resource Control Board process
• Coordinate, develop, and execute detailed test plans and procedures to evaluate C2BMC infrastructure and network design implementation in an integrated environment or to test specific capabilities
• Perform tests on network device communication paths and capacity performance, then analyze data and generate reports afterward
• Create and track Problem Reports to document issues and support Developers in investigating and resolving them
• Review and comment on testability issues, identify obvious design flaws, anticipate data collection points, and coordinate the development of plans for, as well as conduct, anomaly tests and analysis as required
• This position influences the program's impact through:
  • Integrating and troubleshooting both test and operational systems, with issues often related to the OS level (Windows/Linux/Unix/RHEL)
• Create and update scripts to collect data
• Conduct data analysis on message traffic while collaborating closely with internal and government clients
• The author outlined test plans, procedures, and troubleshooting methods
• Plan and oversee integration tests with external components and sensors
• Document test results and prepare briefings on test status and outcomes for internal and external customers
• Must be a self-starter with strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills, as well as the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced team environment
• May require occasional travel to CONUS or OCONUS sites
• Experience in testing and evaluating software-intensive systems across diverse test environments
• Candidate experience should include the use of DoD test methodologies, infrastructure-related test and analysis planning and execution, planning and execution of test data collection, and test data analysis and