Principal/Sr. Principal Systems Engineer (Launch Focus Engineer)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No

CLEARANCE TYPE: None

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.

This Systems Engineering position is an engineering support role on the Co-Manifest Vehicle (CMV) team in the Launch and Exploration Division (LED) at Northrop Grumman Space Systems located in McLean, VA. The job responsibilities will be as an individual-contributor and deliverable/product lead within a multi-disciplinary engineering team. Successful candidate will perform traditional Systems Engineering functions, including verification/validation planning, systems analysis, and coordination of test efforts. The application of these systems engineering responsibilities will be in the context of leading Launch site data topics and developing test sheets. Responsibilities will also include interaction with program, functional and customer leadership.

The candidate must be knowledgeable in aerospace systems, spacecraft subsystems design, or mission operations.  They must have excellent verbal and written communication, be able to explain complex concepts in an easily digestible manner, lead a working group and keep the team focused, create internal information, negotiate with externals, and status customer. The candidate must work in a dynamic environment where priorities can shift and part of the job is to turn the unknown into facts and knowledge. Collaboration and communication is essential, as is adherence to best practices and the ability to understand information at a network, software, and data level. Tasks are not always well defined and can redirect as needed. The candidate will develop and coordinate the conduct of test programs required to evaluate design work.

 

Responsibilities/Duties:

• Evaluate design documentation and verification for compliance with customer and internally derived requirements

• Evaluate design documentation to provide evidence for requirement verification and hazard control verification closure

• Evaluate System Level test results and generation reports & review packages

• Provide support to selected elements of the program Systems Engineering Team

• Support and deliver SE Products and other deliverables, with a focus on mission success

• Develop/implement and communicate solutions to routine Engineering problems

• Contribute to the technical tasks supporting the program

• Provide systems engineering support for technical reviews

• Write status and technical performance reviews, analyses and reports

 

Basic Qualifications:

• Principal Systems Engineer - Bachelors of Science degree in technical field and 5+ years of experience, or Masters of Science degree in technical field with 3+ years of experience; or a PhD

• Sr Principal Systems Engineer - Bachelors of Science degree in technical field and 8+ years of experience, or Masters of Science degree in technical field with 6+ years of experience; or a PhD with 4+ years of experience

• Experience in Systems Engineering for mission critical applications

• Mission and/or vehicle systems engineering experience

• Software coding or scripting experience

• Ability to obtain a security clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required)

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of spacecraft integration & test, launch, and mission operations

• Experience with AI&T for human-rated programs

• Experience conducting data analyses

• Experience with embedded networks

• Understanding of software packets and data flow

• Experience with detailed test design

• Experience with Systems Engineering process

• Experience with human spaceflight vehicle development including integration & test