Principal Systems/Sr. Principal Systems Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be 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, is seeking a Principal Systems/Sr. Principal Systems Engineer to join our Systems Engineering team. This position will be at our Propulsion Systems Division facility located in Promontory, UT with periodic assignments at our Bacchus (Magna), UT location

We are excited for you to join our team of qualified and diverse individuals. Our domain provides rewarding work that contributes to the latest advancements being made in the missile defense industry.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Systems Engineers are responsible to work with the Chief Engineers and Program Leadership to support key program objectives through the development and management of architecture, requirements, verification planning and change integration for our solid rocket motor and booster motor systems. Systems Engineers actively participate in the development of new systems and system upgrades by managing architecture, requirements, verification, and integrated change control processes in a disciplined, broad reaching process, to ensure our propulsion systems projects perform to specification, satisfy customer needs, and maintain configuration integrity throughout the lifecycle of each product. Systems Engineering at Northrop Grumman Propulsion Systems are primarily model based and provide support to multiple defense and commercial contracts including the Sentinel and NASA Artemis missions.

Systems engineering provides a gateway to many other leadership opportunities within Northrop Grumman. Roles may include aspects of project engineering, proposal support, and liaison engineering which naturally build essential skills necessary for future leadership opportunities.

The primary responsibility of the systems engineer in this position is to provide leadership in model-based digital capture of architecture and requirements while retrieving compliance data from various sources into the systems engineering model for a defense program.

• Coordinate with customers to understand intent and needs of the integrated system

• Evaluate and manage customer requirements and flow down in specifications and determine implementation approach

• Analyze the needs of the system and translate into verifiable performance and design requirements

• Manage associated verification approach and work with engineering teams to develop analysis and test results to support stakeholder requirements

• Integrate customer directed changes into the system and facilitate implementation of changes within a change management system

• Coordinate and communicate between multiple cross-functional subsystem teams

• Develop model architecture for model-based integration of requirements, design, analysis, and verification

• Coach early career systems engineers to develop talent

Basic Qualifications:

This position can be filled at either a level 3 or level 4.

Basic Qualifications for a level 3:  

• BS degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Physics or Engineering Management is required & 5 years of experience or 3 years with a MS

Basic Qualifications for a level 4:  

• BS degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Physics or Engineering Management is required & 8 years of experience or 8 years with a MS

• Consideration will be given to candidates with a BS or MS degree in other engineering disciplines with strong relevant experience

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience working in Systems Engineering or in Integration Design or a related field in propulsion, preferably in a government contractor environment

• Demonstrated experience in many aspects of aerospace design (or similar) development processes including d