Principal Systems Engineer-Nuclear Survivability/Chemical/Biological/Radiological

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top 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 Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Principal Systems Engineer – Chemical/Biological/Radiological (CBR) Survivability to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Systems Engineering organization. This role is located in Melbourne, FL.

In this role, the CBR Survivability Engineer will have a unique opportunity to support design and mitigation strategies to develop and field a survivable weapon system with operational requirements involving Chemical, Biological, Radiological threat environments.

Key Responsibilities:
The candidate will be an integral contributor throughout the Engineering & Manufacturing Design and Test phases of the program providing domain specific expertise. The candidate will perform Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Survivability analysis, assessments and reporting to determine the likelihood of personnel, system, or aircraft loss resulting from operation within hostile threat environments. General job responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Perform core Systems Engineering functions such as CBR requirements development, analysis, decomposition, and traceability 
• Evaluate equipment and system-level CBR vulnerabilities
• Collaborate with Program Integrated Product Teams and suppliers to design and finalize a material compatibility assurance program and ensure CBR survivability requirements are incorporated into the weapon system design elements
• Establish material design properties (in the appropriate chemical, thermal, and climatic environments) during development testing to support transition and application of materials systems and process into the aircraft
• Support development of CBR threat-level system test plans and review reports documenting equipment and weapon system compliance
• Support development of program deliverable artifacts documenting design analysis, modeling & simulation, equipment, system-level trade studies, system integration, piece-part, component, equipment, and system test artifacts
• Support the preparation of Program documentation supporting requirements compliance and weapon system performance traceability throughout design reviews leading to weapon system certification 

Domain Specific Responsibilities/Technical Skills: 
Perform Survivability tasking supporting the CBR analysis, evaluation, and validation of components, equipment, subsystems, or weapon system analytical models demonstrating compliance to operationally relevant threat environments. Working knowledge of strategic and tactical weapon system operational threat environments and resulting effects on system interactions of DoD and militarized commercial systems is crucial. 

Domain specific technical skills and activities: 

• Decompose and analyze weapon system CONOPS & threat engagement scenarios 
• Correlate and calculate survivability/vulnerability assessments for personnel, equipment and weapon system with respect to the relevant CONOPS and CBR threat environments
• Develop CBR Weapon System and Component Specifications 
• Conduct CBR survivability trade studies & determine air vehicle and system vulnerabilities
• Witness Acceptance Testing and review Qualification Test Reports 
• Review of Seller drawings, Qualification Test Plans & Procedures, Qualification Test Reports, and Qualification by Similarity Substantiating Data
• Witness Component and System-level CBR Testing & maintenance demos
• Develop Survivability