United States-California-Redondo Beach, United States
$87-161k
Full Time
4 days ago
Job description
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 Systems Engineer/ Principal System Engineer located in Redondo Beach, CA.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Roles and responsibilities you may be tasked to support:
• Ability to capture core concepts and instructional needs from a large amount of technical data (ground and space hardware) and communicate technical concepts to peers
• Be self-directed and take initiative to drive product development to closure
• Understand space satellite mission planning, demonstration and delivery of mission effects during operations, and provides mission augmentation support over the life of the mission.
• Performs system-of-system trades, modeling, simulation and analysis to assess space mission architecture alternatives for delivering a Customer mission effect, data or capability as it fits within a broader campaign
• Performs analysis-of-alternatives and synthesizes mission elements to lead to a cohesive space mission solution. Space mission development may include orbits, launch vehicles, space vehicles, payloads, ground segment, Design Reference Missions (DRM), and external interfaces
• Development of requirement traceability and verification plans
• Drive statement of work requirements to closure
• Support execution activities including configuration control board and other customer meetings
• Prepare review/briefing material for working group meetings, reviews and program status
• Expected travel is approximately 10%
Basic Qualifications:
System Engineer Level (T2)- Bachelor’s degree in Physics or Engineering or related STEM field with 2 years of experience in a related engineering field such as mechanical, electrical, aerospace and/or operations
Principal System Engineer Level (T3) - Bachelor’s degree in Physics or Engineering or related STEM field with 5 years of experience in a related engineering field such as mechanical, electrical, aerospace and/or operations
This position can be filled as a T2 or a T3 based on the qualifications below:
- Must have U.S. Citizenship with active or current TS/SCI Clearance at the time of application
- Understanding of Systems Engineering principles and practices
- Experience in one or more of the following system engineering knowledge areas: technical planning, requirements derivation, functional analysis, timeline analysis, trade studies, cost and risk analysis, interface definition, system design, system integration, verification and validation, supportability, and effectiveness analyses for total system
- Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work within diverse teams
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in mission design, satellite ground software, distributed modeling & simulation
- Understanding of system of system architecture designs the interplay between various national security customers and products
- Be able to make decisions under high pressure environments and maintain composure in stressful situations
- Previous experience with troubleshooting, anomaly resolution and performing analysis on operational systems
- Previous experience with flight hardware on operational systems
- Previous experience with Class C / demonstration programs
- Prior aerospace-related work experience for a U.S Government Agency or Contractor
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