United States-Virginia-Dulles, United States
$107-200k
Full Time
3 months 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 โ 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 a National Security Space (NSS) Program in the Tactical Space Systems Division at Northrop Grumman Space Systems located in Dulles, VA. The job responsibilities will be as an individual-contributor and deliverable/product lead within a multi-disciplinary engineering team. Successful candidates will perform traditional Systems Engineering functions, including requirements synthesis and flow-down, verification/validation planning, system trades study support, systems analysis, coordination of design efforts, and management of technical budgets & interface definitions. The application of these systems engineering functions will be in the context of fault management, system autonomy, and mission operations, particularly as it relates to the operation of a proliferated autonomous space system.
Tasks may also include designing, implementing, and validating Mission Operations plans for proliferated systems and identifying opportunities for the automation of traditionally manual tasks. The candidate must be knowledgeable in spacecraft subsystem design, spacecraft testing, flight software best practices, and particularly mission operations and operational readiness events. Candidate may be called on to assist in new business activities, such as conceptual design and analysis for proposals and funded studies and may include authoring sections for both. Presentation skills and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to either technical or nontechnical audiences is required. Experience interfacing with technical, customer, and program management, including business leaders, is highly desired.
Duties:
Evaluate design documentation and verification for compliance with customer and internally derived requirements
Evaluate design documentation to ensure feasibility and application of previous lessons learned
Develop Mission Operations Plans for proliferated autonomous systems
Proactively identify tasks and procedures as candidates for automation
Evaluate design documentation to provide evidence for requirement verification
Support mission operation tasks for Launch, Operations, and Disposal
Evaluate System Level test results and generate reports & review packages
Evaluate payload interfaces and perform feasibility studies for integration of payloads to existing systems
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
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Basic Qualifications:
Principal Systems Engineer: Bachelorโs degree in engineering or related technical field with at least 5 years of applicable experience, or Masters degree with 3 years of applicable experience.
Senior Principal Systems Engineer: Bachelorโs degree in engineering or related technical field with at least 8 years of applicable experience or Masters degree with 6 years of applicable experience
Experience in Systems Engineering for mission critical applications
Mission and/or vehicle systems engineering experience
Mission Operations Experience, particularly with Military Satellites.
Software coding or scripting experience
Citizenship with a current or active Top Secret/SCI level clearance at time of application โ
Preferred Qualifications:
Failure analysis or fault management technical experience
Experience with Systems Engineering process
Experience defining requirements & interfaces
Understanding of spacecraft integration & test, launch, and mission operations
Experience developing verification documentation
Experience with architecture development
Familiarity with electrical & computer systems
Familiarity with command and telemetry database
Experience with Northrop Grumman Process and Procedures is highly desired
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