Staff Systems Engineer- Triton SEIT Deputy Development Lead

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 25% 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 Sector is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer for the Triton program in Rancho Bernardo, San Diego CA at the Autonomous Design Center of Excellence.

The selected candidate will fill the role of Triton SEIT Deputy Development Lead for the Triton Systems Engineering IPT. In this role, the selected candidate will be responsible for leading a diverse engineering design teams to provide imaginative, technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems across the Triton Development Program as part of the Triton Enterprise. This includes scope across the entire spectrum of the Systems Engineering V-Model. The candidate will be executing system integration tasking across the entire lifecycle of a system and integrating new capabilities on the MQ-4C Triton platform. The selected candidate will lead SE disciplines including requirements development, use case development, capability (hardware and software) development, integration planning, lab integration, test planning, formal test, and verification. Additionally, the selected candidate will be responsible for leading the efforts of Triton Systems Engineerings’ Specialty Engineering disciplines including Cybersecurity, EMI/EMC, System Safety and Human Factors (HFE).

The selected candidate will also be expected to lead tasking and provide direction in establishment and management of the technical baseline including Integrated Functional Capability (IFC) development and technical configuration and change management.

This is a full time on-site role with no opportunity for regular telecommuting.

Essential Duties will include:

• Lead cross-IPT development of system level requirements and use cases

• Implement requirements verification methodology and traceability

• Lead development of interface definitions and integration plans

• Lead formal integration campaigns for new development hardware/software

• Support capabilities based system level testing of fully integrated complex software and hardware subsystems

• Lead evaluation and disposition of integration and test anomalies and assist disposition and correction of issues as found

• Manage flowdown of new capabilities and configurations of developmental IFCs into Production and Fielded assets

• Evaluate proposed technical changes and lead development of future capability roadmaps within specified capability areas

• Lead and evaluate proposal bids for Systems Engineering IPT proposals

• Act as Control Account Manager (CAM) for Triton SEIT Development portfolio

• Act as Delegate of Authority (DOA) for SEIT Development Lead as needed

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in a STEM discipline with a minimum of 12 years of engineering experience; Master’s degree in a STEM discipline with minimum 10 years engineering experience; or PhD degree in STEM discipline with minimum of 8 years of engineering experience

• Demonstrated leadership experience of technical cross-discipline teams

• Demonstrated experience in cost/schedule management for complex technical program

• Experience in developing, preparing and defending proposal bids for technical programs

• Active DoD Secret clearance

• Must have ability to obtain and maintain Program Access (PAR) within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business needs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active DoD