NG Fellow 1 - TSSD

CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION: No

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: None

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 Fellows are recognized experts in their fields who solve the hardest technical problems while ensuring we learn and retain the insights needed to perform all our complex tasks successfully.  These leaders work in our most important technical capability areas while identifying and cultivating essential people, processes, and tools.  They are deployed against critical programs and captures, aligned with our sector’s top business priorities, and advance our products and solutions to meet customers’ missions every day.

The ideal candidate will help set and drive strategy for a broad set of technical initiatives and be empowered to make decisions that significantly impact the Annual Operating Plans (AOP), Long-Range Strategic Plans (LRSP), and the Technology Roadmaps.  The NG Fellow is expected to provide scientific, technical, and intellectual leadership, as well as analytical support contributing to the advancement of business growth goals.   The candidate must also have a strong grasp of program execution and networking strategy; and possess the skills, drive, and judgement to successfully interface with senior leaders/technologists across the company and customer community.

Northrop Grumman Tactical Space Systems Division in the Space sector is seeking an NG Fellow 1 to serve as the Chief Mission Architect for the Science & Robotic Explorations Operating Unit (OU) of the Civil Space Systems Business Unit (BU).   This NG Fellow will play an instrumental role in identifying, developing, evolving, and leading technological strategy for our space science and weather missions.   As the recognized leader in this technical domain, you will join engineering, program, strategy, and business development leaders in architecting, developing, maturing, and integrating breakthrough technology mission solutions for new opportunities.

General NG Fellow responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

• Serve as a primary domain expert, identifying and quantifying capability gaps, focusing attention on technological mission end-to-end solutions to meet future needs, inform requirements, and support capability portfolio management.
• Conduct very complex analyses that require deliberate planning, analyzing, organizing, and integration of current and emerging operational and system capabilities to achieve desired mission effects.
• Provides personnel technical development through leadership, team building, mentorship, and shared knowledge.
• Provide key insights and inputs in the development of proposals for technology and product development.
• Conduct complex scientific or technical analyses on behalf of significant business/technical areas that require the synthesis of diverse disciplines and alternatives; solutions may be developed under conditions of uncertainty or where little precedent exists.
• Coordinate systems and tools portfolio required to ensure optimized Sector/Division (i.e., IR&D approach, program/project tracking, cost, scalability, documentation, reporting, etc.).
• Develop relationships with customers, interface with key stakeholders, and support development of new business or expand our technology credibility with the customer.
• Involved in attracting and capturing new business by participating in proposals, Independent Reviews, and analyses of alternatives/trade studies requiring the area of technical expertise.
• Advocate for technical differentiation through innovation or synthesis.
• Participate in customer, industry, and/or academic, advisory boards or consortiums.
• Apply and/or develop highly advanced technologies, scientific principles, theories, and concepts.
• Champions company values, including safety, best practices, and continuous improvement.
• Serve as key member of Enterprise CTO Working Groups and coordinate enterprise-wide information requirements that align the Operating sectors’ Technology analysis requirements.

Specific roles and responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

• Be the known Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC) thought leader in the NASA Science community. This includes but is not limited to: (1) leading the NGC contributions to the National Academies of Science & Engineering Decadal Surveys for all the NASA Science Mission Directorate’s (SMD) science domain areas (Astrophysics, Earth Science, Heliophysics, Planetary Science). Each NASA science division’s Decadal Survey occurs once every decade and sets the science mission priorities for each NASA science division. As the NGC thought leader, this NG Fellow will be fluent in understanding the priorities of each science domain, in order for us to vet and prioritize the most compelling science mission pursuits. This further aids the OU in choosing which teams to join when asks to partner by a Principal Investigator (PI) for any Announcement of Opportunity (AO) mission competition. This further includes vetting which NGC technologies would provide the most innovative and risk balanced contribution to the mission concept.
• Lead strategy for AO captures via the ability to balance science innovation with executable mission implementation at an acceptable risk is a critical skill required for this position.
• Being established in our science community, this NG Fellow will be a known and natural interface for PIs (both from academia and NASA Centers) who seek to establish a relationship with NGC, for the purpose of architecting and developing missions of the future.
• As our thought leader, this NG Fellow is expected to publish and publicly speak at major science and engineering meetings, forums and conferences, representing and advocating for our mission pursuits, and promoting our mission capabilities.
• Serve as a mission system engineering review member for all pursuit baseline and color team reviews for S&RE proposals.
• Serve as an independent mission system engineering review member for key OU program implementation reviews, e.g., PDRs and CDRs.
• This NG Fellow will represent NGC at the annual NASA PI Launch training program, serving as a mentor to PIs seeking to establish relationships with industry for their future missions. This position is nominated by NASA.
• As our Chief Mission Architect for S&RE, this NG Fellow will be instrumental to driving and achieving our S&RE strategic objectives:
  • Be a top industry provider of science and weather mission solutions for NASA, NOAA and USGS.
  • Provide innovative end-to-end mission system solutions to win compelling science and civil operational missions.
  • Integrate mission solutions through collaboration across divisions (TSSD, SSSD, PGSD)
  • Leverage all NGC product lines to bring best value solutions to the customer for mid-sized to flagship science missions.
  • Enable NASA, NOAA and USGS next generation operational systems with new focus on constellation solutions (some disaggregated)
  • Increase strategic partnerships when an in-house solution does not meet the mission need.
• Be the Chief Mission Architect to the Sector Science & Weather Business Strategy Team (BST).  In this role, the candidate will lead or support analyses on sector-level space science strategy topics of interest and work closely with OU, Strategy and Business Development directors for prioritizing, shaping and capture planning at a cross-Divisional level.
• Evolve Technology Roadmaps to inform Northrop Grumman’s science and weather strategy, shape future program pursuits, and assist in developing discriminating mission thread capabilities. Focus on lowering the costs of system implementation to keep NGC competitive with our peer organizations.
• Be instrumental in the architecting of major science missions and be the mission system engineer (MSE), while expanding our NGC mission scope to include and enable payload development while utilizing our NGC-wide capabilities.
• Conduct technology full-spectrum analysis in support of key business functions, to include needs assessment, capability gap analysis, analysis of alternatives.
• Work closely with the Sector/Division Leaders to define technical solutions aligned to customers’ strategies and requirements.
• Lead initiatives and capture and proposal strategies that utilize and engage the broad capabilities across all of NG Space that can be integrated to perform new science, weather and exploration missions.
• Be a mentor and sponsor interns and engineering and science professionals rotating through S&RE to become future key contributors to S&RE missions.
• Work with the NG organization units and leadership for national security to develop a messaging campaign to socialize mission thread analysis results. Represent our NGC science and technology capabilities that can be dual-use for customer restricted missions.
• Present science objectives, payload technologies and mission architectures to senior NG and NASA Science leadership.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 20+ years of engineering experience OR Master’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 18+ years of engineering experience OR PhD in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 15+ years of engineering experience
• Fifteen or more years of experience leading and developing technologies, sensing systems, payloads, and spacecraft observatories for NASA science missions.
• Ten or more years of demonstrated success leading interdisciplinary and cross-functional teams to create technical solutions as a Mission Architect, Chief Scientist, Chief Engineer or Lead System Engineer
• Published author for space science methods, analyses and/or systems development.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong collaboration skills with experience working across business units, divisions, and sectors within NG, including the ability to motivate and guide teams.
• Current knowledge of and relationships with NASA leaders for Science and Missions Planning.

Preferred Qualifications:

• National and international recognition for achievements in Space Science missions
• Participation in industry professional societies, steering committees and/or university boards
• General knowledge of TSSD space vehicles, capabilities, avionics, mission operations and ground systems
• Experienced outreach speaker for academic, civilian and general audiences
• Publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings
• Active TS and SCI/SAP clearances

For the job application submission, applicants are urged to address qualifications against the above requirements, Basic Qualifications, and Preferred Qualifications.

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